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Pokemon Stickers Are Back for Koreans Nostalgic (懷舊的) for ChildhoodSmall pastries include a surprise sticker,and the goal is to find all 159 varieties — just like a trend more than 20 years ago.
Jeong Bo-ram's new fascination has him (1)
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mass-produced pastries(糕點(diǎn)),delivery trucks and his childhood memories.His (2)
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are ﹩1.20 bakery items sold with random Pokemon stickers that fly off store shelves in South Korea.
Just a few short of a full 159-sticker collection,29-year-old Mr.Jeong has gone to more than 10 convenience stores and supermarkets a day,often leaving empty-handed.He has paid hundreds of dollars.He has learned the evening (3)
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times throughout his neighborhood to know when fresh drop-offs occur.
More than two decades ago,the Pokemon sticker-treat duo caught on with a generation of South Korean children,before the craze passed after a few years and the products were discontinued.Now the goodies are back just in time for the country's broader retro boom, (4)
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by adults nostaglic for simpler times.
South Koreans are going to great (5)
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to live out the Pokemon tagline of "Gotta catch 'em all," with some (6)
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the stickers in display booklets.Pokemon,originally a Japanese game for the Nintendo Game Boy that (7)
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hundreds of monster characters,has expanded into globally popular animated series,toys and video-games, (8)
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the recent hit Pokemon Go for smartphones.
Retailers have posted signs on their entrances that read, "We have no Pokemon bread," while some store owners are (9)
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of bundling the in-demand pastries with unpopular items.Hunters camp outside supermarkets early in the morning.The rarest of stickers,such as that of the legendary characters Mew (夢(mèng)幻) and Mewtwo (超夢(mèng)),fetch ﹩40 online.A full collection (10)
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more than ﹩700,the listings show.Actual children also try to find the stickers,but adults are using their greater resources for the hunt.
Ko Hyo-jin shrieked when she ripped open a package of "Diglett Strawberry Custard Bread" recently and discovered inside a sticker of Mewtwo - a two-legged monster shown extending its paw.She immediately dialed up her husband. "It felt like winning the lottery," said the 39-year-old homemaker in the Seoul Suburbs.
The nostalgic chase has been embraced by young adults facing Korea's stagnant economy,soaring real-estate prices and a tight labor market.