[MORNING CALM TALES] 'Ppi-ppi': Korea's brief pager fad in the '90s
Before phones lived in our pockets — before they glowed, chirped, hummed, vibrated, tracked us and reminded us of things we hadn’t yet forgotten — there was the pager. In Korea, it was commonly and…
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