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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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 Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:26 am Post subject: Is there a Korean equivalent of a lemon-aid stand? |
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I'm back in Canada, it's hot out and I noticed the little boys across the street openned a lemon-aid stand on Sunday. It was a pretty good idea because there's lots of traffic from the church next to their house and there were a few yard sales on our road yesterday.
That got me thinking, is there an equivalent for Korean kids? What do Korean kids usually do to learn about business, entrepreneurship, earning your own money, planning ahead, taking out loans, etc? |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| The way I see young Koreans spend, I really doubt it. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:02 am Post subject: |
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No, because there's no streets with houses, sidewalks, cul-de-sacs or free time for kids to do things like enjoy life.
Also, it's "lemonade". "Lemon-aid" sounds like the lemon version of Kool-Aid, and that sure as heck fi ain't lemonade. |
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| Gorf wrote: |
No, because there's no streets with houses, sidewalks, cul-de-sacs or free time for kids to do things like enjoy life.
Also, it's "lemonade". "Lemon-aid" sounds like the lemon version of Kool-Aid, and that sure as heck fi ain't lemonade. |
It's 'if' but that's an inconsequential keyboard slip. 'Lemon-aid' - that's the most disturbing spelling mistake I've come across and I'm normally repulsed by grammar nazis. Don't advertise any lemonade stands anywhere please, much less sneer at correctly-spelled Korean ones. |
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Do Koreans drink lemon-aid? |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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that would never happen here. too many factors.
kids here know business? hmmmm |
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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Location: kOREA
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Back in the day, orphans and other street urchins used to sell snacks and other junk. 10-15 years+ ago?
So yeah...nobody is gonna encourage their kid to sell lemonade....plus they don't really dig homemade lemonade(or know what the hell it is).....I think you need to add soju and the kids would be in business. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| minos wrote: |
Back in the day, orphans and other street urchins used to sell snacks and other junk. 10-15 years+ ago?
So yeah...nobody is gonna encourage their kid to sell lemonade....plus they don't really dig homemade lemonade(or know what the hell it is).....I think you need to add soju and the kids would be in business. |
Whatever this guy said. Got to remember Korea wasn't that rich not that long ago. Much too recent for most parents to tell their kids to go out and make money on their own. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| minos wrote: |
| Back in the day, orphans and other street urchins used to sell snacks and other junk. 10-15 years+ ago? |
I remember the area around Suwon Station looking pretty ghetto back in 2001. And I do remember those kids selling junk in 1988, I was a kid too back then and remember trading my 25-cents Canadian for one of those packs of gum. The kid was just as fascinated with Canadian money as I was with the concept of some kid my age roaming around a massive city to make money. |
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Modernist
Joined: 23 Mar 2011
Location: The 90s
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Do Koreans drink lemonade? |
Of course, it's everywhere. They have the whole -ade thing going strong, orange, pineapple, grapefruit...it's almost always delicious. Even Burger King has it. Delicious cold fruit drinks that in some small way compensate a little for the, uh, food.
Since Koreans are used to paying 2-3K for ade at Lotteria and such, a kid selling 'lemonade' of the Western type for maybe 500 a cup would risk serious disappointment on the part of customers given what they're used to seeing elsewhere.
But there's always those fake-Icee machines that give you about 3 good pulls before the flavor dies... |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Look around. Every place that you would normally see a lemon-ade stand is already populated with too many unregulated/unlicensed bar tents or restaurant tents or stalls. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Look around. Every place that you would normally see a lemon-ade stand is already populated with too many unregulated/unlicensed bar tents or restaurant tents or stalls. |
This.
I just go to the soju tent and get served by the 10 year old who is home from Hagwon. "Minsu go serve the waygookin the soju and let me hear you speak English so I know you aren't sneaking off to the PC Bang" |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| minos wrote: |
Back in the day, orphans and other street urchins used to sell snacks and other junk. 10-15 years+ ago?
So yeah...nobody is gonna encourage their kid to sell lemonade....plus they don't really dig homemade lemonade(or know what the hell it is).....I think you need to add soju and the kids would be in business. |
i was here in the mid 90s and early 2000s and I dont remember any kids selling anything. I remember them asking for money from me, but they all lived in apartments near my house. |
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