Before cell phones became widespread, how did people usually hang out or meet others? Did you have any experiences like that?
Phone and letters.
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Contacted by pager or made an appointment at the company in advance to meet at a certain time.
Info: Pager was a small communication device used from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, mainly for sending messages or making phone calls.
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PC room (internet cafe).
Info: A PC room is a place where you pay a fee to use the internet and play games for a set amount of time.
They are common in Korea and are often visited by friends to play games together.
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Went out to the neighborhood park or visited someone’s house.
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Communicated through home phone.
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Mostly used home phones (as of 2006), contacted through home phone to set place and time and meet.
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I think I just went out to the playground or in front of the house and played with people I met.
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Mostly, when making plans, we would set the exact time and place for the this meeting and next meeting, then play with a game console.
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Made appointments by landline or met at commonly known meeting places at the time. For example, “let’s meet at the playground” or “in front of the academy or school".
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Always pager.
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After school, logged on to Cyworld or NateOn to communicate, called friends’ home phones, “Is this [friend’s name]’s house? This is [my name], can I talk to them?” to make plans.
Info: Cyworld and NateOn were popular Korean social networks in the early 2000s. They were mainly used for communication with friends and were very widely used at the time.
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You call and ask mom if you can hang out during so-and-so day. She would call them.
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Playground: Mugunghwa Kkoch-i Pieot-seumnida (Red Light, Green Light), cops and robbers, etc.
Info: It is a game where one person covers their eyes and stands still;
the others can move while the person’s back is turned but must freeze when they turn around.
It appears in Season 1 of Netflix's Squid Game.
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Usually always need parent’s permission to go to friends’ house or vice versa. Parents usually drove me.
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Regular telephone.
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Public phone… pager.
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Playground game!
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