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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:45 am Post subject: Toy trends... |
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Does anyone else notice the extreme and rapidly fluctuating trends in toys in this country? One week, every single kid has a particular toy, and then the next week that toy is gone and there is another overly popular toy.
It may happen in our respective parts of the world as well, but if it did I would be oblivious I suppose. Here is a rundown of the recent toy trends in my area:
The current toy is a neatly folded, square shapped piece of paper. The kids throw it on their friend's square to try to get it to flip over. If it flips, they get to keep it.
For maybe one week, all the girls had little notebooks and stickers that they had to put in various places in the notebook. A real pain in the ass for an Engilsh teacher...
Vampire teeth were in the mouths of every single kid for about two days time and then disappeared.
For maybe two weeks, all the boys had these metal tops that they would wind up with a shoe lace and then have battles with the other tops. One day, there were no more tops.
All the boys used to have a deck of cards and then a little hand-held computer game thing that they would swipe the cards in, connect with their friends, and then have battles. This one lasted a while, but I haven't seen one in a few months now.
Of course Heelers...but I haven't seen many of those around lately.
I guess hamsters are toys for Koreans... About once every two months, there is a hamster fad where all the kids come to school with hamsters in their pockets an pencil cases. Im in the middle of a hamster fad at the moment....its not easy teaching kids when their hamsters are clawing their way through a students pencil case...
Anybody else notice this or have other fads to add to the list? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Trends?
I prefer to call them 'seasons'. 
There are particular times of the year (traditionally) when certain games/toys are played- yut nori, 'hacky-sack' (or something very similar- I forget the Korean name), kites, and more; to this list we can add some modern variations: pellet-gun season, toy-race-car season, paper-folding/flipping season, pet-baby-chicken-dead-within-a-week season...
So what season is it now in Korea? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:17 am Post subject: |
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If you didn't live through the horror that was 'Digimon cards' then you don't know the whole story.
Back in 2000 I had to confiscate hundreds of those damned things every day. |
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Joe Thanks
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:44 am Post subject: Re: Toy trends... |
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| whatthefunk wrote: |
Does anyone else notice the extreme and rapidly fluctuating trends in toys in this country? One week, every single kid has a particular toy, and then the next week that toy is gone and there is another overly popular toy.
It may happen in our respective parts of the world as well, but if it did I would be oblivious I suppose. Here is a rundown of the recent toy trends in my area:
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The current toy is a neatly folded, square shapped piece of paper. The kids throw it on their friend's square to try to get it to flip over. If it flips, they get to keep it.
Anybody else notice this or have other fads to add to the list? |
It sounds like a variation of �Joondachi." When I was last in SK they were using little translucent rubber Pokemon and doing it. It may not be an original Korean invention but it is a Korean gaming tradition.
Cheers,
Joe
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justagirl
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Cheonan/Portland
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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New toy at my school?
The fake gum package that flips a plastic cockroach onto your finger when you pull out the "last piece of gum." ha ha
Oh, and the big, metal tops are still very much alive and kicking in Cheonan.
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
I prefer to call them 'seasons'.
So what season is it now in Korea? |
I like seasons. So maybe Korea has more than four seasons....
Right now in my part of te world its paper folding and flipping season. To anyone who has been here for more than one year...do the seasons repeat themselves? |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Apparently, they do. My old hakwon days were full of the paper-flipping business. |
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erlyn
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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When I first arrived here last year, the kids were in full-on paper flipping game mode... then it completely disappeared after about two weeks. And lo and behold, exactly one year later, they're playing it again.
I remember very well slavishly following toy/game trends as a kid back in Canada, but it seems to be an even stronger force here. Or at least, it seems much more seasonal here. But then, adult trends appear to be the same way, so... |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| erlyn wrote: |
| When I first arrived here last year, the kids were in full-on paper flipping game mode... then it completely disappeared after about two weeks. And lo and behold, exactly one year later, they're playing it again. |
Interesting... This would make a good anthropology study. I wonder if it has to do with the availibility of the toys or if it's because of the moon or something. |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| justagirl wrote: |
New toy at my school?
The fake gum package that flips a plastic *beep* onto your finger when you pull out the "last piece of gum." ha ha
Oh, and the big, metal tops are still very much alive and kicking in Cheonan.
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Yeah! Every kid seems to have bought one of those gum things. I nearly peed my pants laughing when I had a look at the writing on them. C*O*C*K Mint. One kid asked if it spelt c*o*ckroach? Um no not quite. |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Horangi Munshin wrote: |
Yeah! Every kid seems to have bought one of those gum things. I nearly peed my pants laughing when I had a look at the writing on them. C*O*C*K Mint. One kid asked if it spelt c*o*ckroach? Um no not quite. |
Wow! I haven't seen those! |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:32 am Post subject: Re: Toy trends... |
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| whatthefunk wrote: |
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The current toy is a neatly folded, square shapped piece of paper. The kids throw it on their friend's square to try to get it to flip over. If it flips, they get to keep it.
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Sorry mate, but they had this/that back in 1997....my first (Korean) kids' game I took part in...sad, I know.
Shoosh,
Ryst |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
If you didn't live through the horror that was 'Digimon cards' then you don't know the whole story.
Back in 2000 I had to confiscate hundreds of those damned things every day. |
Confiscate?!?!
You cheap s.o.b.- I won mine off my students fair and square!! 
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| To anyone who has been here for more than one year...do the seasons repeat themselves? |
Yes [that's why I call them seasons....]. |
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Ody
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: over here
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
If you didn't live through the horror that was 'Digimon cards' then you don't know the whole story.
Back in 2000 I had to confiscate hundreds of those damned things every day. |
Confiscate?!?!
You cheap s.o.b.- I won mine off my students fair and square!!
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| To anyone who has been here for more than one year...do the seasons repeat themselves? |
Yes [that's why I call them seasons....]. |
although i am stocked in the love and authority catagories, fun is always a challenge. how did you win them? at the risk of sounding like a total schleb, is there a game with actual rules at play here? |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Ody wrote: |
| although i am stocked in the love and authority catagories, fun is always a challenge. how did you win them? at the risk of sounding like a total schleb, is there a game with actual rules at play here? |
Well, I have always played the one where you put the cards on the edge of the table and then you have to flick them and get them to turn over. If you do this, you get to keep the card. If you don't, the other guy gets the card. |
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