This is why my neighborhood is at an all time level of quiet (very few truck vendors with loudspeakers). Now if the recyclers would only bring back the “clink-clink” sound of the big scissors that is so Korean, in my mind . . .
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I did’nt know that “tin snips” odashi’s were still around.
Oh yes… the clink clink will fetch scap metal and all the little boys and girls will get yeot in return.
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I guess I am out of touch since they don’t come to the big apartment complexes. They still have those annoying fish, squid, and vegatable odashi bongo trucks with the loudspeakers? I remember those guys making a hangover even worse, they always seemed to come around at 6AM on a sunday morning.
i remember seeing a yeot jangsa ajushi, but he didn’t collect any scrap metal. He had a scissor, a cart, and sold 1 piece of candy by the US equivalent of 10 cents. That was Mok Dong, Yang Chun Goo, Seoul, around 1990. Kid magnet.
Makes you wonder why so few people buy LPG vehicles. It costs me about 20 000 won a week in fuel, even less if we don’t go on a road trip.
There are various restrictions in place in regard to who can and cannot purchase LPG vehicles and what types of vehicles they can be.
I remember hauling an old VCR down to an adjoshi, with his scissors and cart, back in ‘98. I would sometimes buy duk from the late-night criers simply so they would come back with their song in the night, which is much cooler than running down to the GS or 7-11.
I guess many miss the little things that may now be in the past.