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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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 Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:12 am Post subject: What did Koreans do before camera phones? |
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It seems 50% of any social interaction is taking photos of yourself and your friends with your camera phone.
I recently bought a new phone and deliberately didn't buy one with a camera because I think they are pointless. (that and I already have a digicam I barely use.)
What did they do before camera phones? Have a decent conversation or sit there in awkward silence awaiting the arrival of camera phones to enrich their lives.
I guess it's just a fad, albeit an expensive one.. I don't know how all these people afford 300,000 - 600,000 or whatever phones.. they rack it up on the credit card I guess. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:17 am Post subject: |
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man I was in korea when only a few rich kids had cell phones!!
we all had BEEPERS!!!
hahahahah those days were funny... all these beepers going off...
man funny times!!! |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:18 am Post subject: Re: What did Koreans do before camera phones? |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
I guess it's just a fad, albeit an expensive one.. I don't know how all these people afford 300,000 - 600,000 or whatever phones.. they rack it up on the credit card I guess. |
The cost of the phone may be spread out for one or two years and applied to the monthly bill. |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:35 am Post subject: |
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I can see how it might be useful if you also have email capabilities and a PC bang would be inconvenient. (hey it could happen) Give directions and send a picture of an important landmark, for example.
Other than that, I think it's not really a fad, cause I don't think they're going to go away. I think what will happen next will be a streaming video capability, kind of a live action text messaging, and you can imagine what *that* might be used for.  |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
man I was in korea when only a few rich kids had cell phones!!
we all had BEEPERS!!!
hahahahah those days were funny... all these beepers going off...
man funny times!!! |
I hear you.... phone booths were really used back then often with a line waiting, and coffee shops had phones at tables so you could call out when you got beeped. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
man I was in korea when only a few rich kids had cell phones!!
we all had BEEPERS!!!
hahahahah those days were funny... all these beepers going off...
man funny times!!! |
I remember when people first got those phones and were yelling into them because they could not realize that the phone could pick up their voices at a normal level.
I admit, I had an H.O.T. ��  |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:58 am Post subject: |
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Ha ha...this thread has turned into a walk down memory lane for all the grandpas on thw board.  |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| How did they get so many phone booths to disappear overnight or were they quite scarce then too (especially the coin-op ones). It's a pain trying to find a phone to make a coin call. I've walked around for over an hour trying to do that in Suwon. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Photo sticker booths used to be the rage. They're still around but they're not quite streets and streets of them like there used to be. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| What happened to DDR?? I think it had died a death. |
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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: Tue May 18, 2004 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
| What happened to DDR?? I think it had died a death. |
There's a couple of them on the main street of the small community I'm in. And it gets used, maybe by big city wannabes. |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| then i saw one a few months ago from NTT...or docomo, |
I used to have a docomo(NTT) phone and I still can't get their frigging company jingle out of my head. It used to drive me nuts and now it is back 
To be honest, i love my camera phone. I play around with it probably more than the Koreans do. What is wrong with playing with the camera on your phone????? |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| They cling to each other like termites in a hill. The cellphone is further proof that they're incapable of being away from the hive for more than a minute. An 'individual' korean would be the equivalent of an 'individual' ant, or termite, or bee. Without the hive, or the nearest connection back to it, i.e. the cellphone, they simply cease to exist. |
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Harin
Joined: 03 May 2004
Location: Garden of Eden
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| katydid wrote: |
| Ha ha...this thread has turned into a walk down memory lane for all the grandpas on thw board. |
Hey, I used to own a motorola beeper. |
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