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noelinkorea
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: Shinchon, Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject: shoes |
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| Women's elf-like pointed shoes used to be all the rage when I got here three years ago...don't see them anymore. Female fake hair extensions (usually curly, and in some odd unnatural colour like orange or purple) used to be cool at tha time too. Incidentally, where I used to live in Korea (Cheongju) the kids there used to get their fingers dipped in something orange...a traditional thing, I think...I've seen it only once since moving to Seoul more than a year ago... |
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thorin
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I think they rub golden bells or some other flower on their finger nails. Cheongju is pretty country so there are probably a lot more flowers around than in Seoul. |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone said Top Flight toys, and that's true, though I think they were called Top Blade, also Burberry scarves and all the knock-offs that came out shortly there after about two years ago. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| the kids there used to get their fingers dipped in something orange...a traditional thing, I think...I've seen it only once since moving to Seoul more than a year ago... |
It's henna. I don't know the Korean word for it. They do it in the spring, they have to find a boyfriend before it wears off. Seriously. It's cute. |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Fad to come and go: Boardgame cafes. They seemed promising and were sprouting up all over the place not even a year ago, but have sort of fallen the wayside.
Fad to recently have arrived and is waiting in line to go: "Fire Chicken" -- buldalk (�Ҵ�) restaurants. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| katydid wrote: |
| Knitting is huge at the girls' middle school I work at. |
Big at the all-girls high school too.
I can understand taking .mp3s and handphones, but never thought I'd have to steal someone's knitting for not listening! |
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Blind Willie
Joined: 05 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| So, we're discussing how kids are really fickle and easily marketed to, then? |
Yes. |
well, them aint really "fads". That's like saying buying a new model car is a fad.
Beehive hairdoos, Pac Man, Survivor, and Grunge, are fads |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Late this year all the yonger ones seem to have gone for the wrap-around monkeys that to me look pretty dumb. |
Yeah, many of my kindy kids have those monkeys. Some are brown and some are pink. I think they are cute!!! |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| Those poptart things they fill with custard as you wait... definitely a fad. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:52 am Post subject: |
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Did anyone mention the see-thru colored-bill hats that girls kept wearing this summer?
Someone on here had that as an avatar. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| WELL BEING! It was Atkins in the states when I left; Atkins bread, Atkins chips, Atkins ice cream. You'll know the well being fad is out when they stop serving green biscuits at Popeyes |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| WELL BEING! It was Atkins in the states when I left; Atkins bread, Atkins chips, Atkins ice cream. You'll know the well being fad is out when they stop serving green biscuits at Popeyes |
I've never been to Popeye's. The biscuits were literally green??? 
Ew!!!! They have this wrap thing they call a "crepe" at Lotteria. It's actually pretty good, just not very filling.
What about girls wearing shoes that are about 3 or 4 sizes too big. Was that just a Pohang thing? |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:39 am Post subject: |
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HOT (First they loved them, then they hated them...then they loved them again!)
Those "Sound of Music" type kerchiefs that all the girls wore....
"Witch" shoes....
Phone accessories...
Pokimon....
Telletubies (how I hated them!!!)
Hello Kitty |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:58 am Post subject: |
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ddak ji...that silly game the kids play where they slam down a flat plastic toy or paper or whatever onto another toy and then keep the toy if they win.
Cheezy hand held games were all the rage a few years ago, at least in Ulsan where I lived at the time. Hardly ever see a kid with one now. The most popular sort was the electronic "pet" that they had to feed by pushing buttons ...I remember taking one from a particulary rude student and resetting the "step" count back to 0 by pushing in the small red button with a pencil. Man did he ever bawl his eyes out. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| shawner88 wrote: |
| ddak ji...that silly game the kids play where they slam down a flat plastic toy or paper or whatever onto another toy and then keep the toy if they win. |
Fad? I dunno. It's played nearly everyday by first graders at my hagwon. |
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