October 10, 2019

Travels with the Korean fish

Travels with the Korean fish. I used to give away these little hand made, fabric fishes whenever I encountered a kind person in my travels. I used to buy them in bulk from a Korean gift shop.

They were inexpensive yet attractive. The made a pretty accessory for the flip phones. Once the world moved to smartphones, the Korean fishes went extinct.

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