tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post7424843750133507065..comments2023-11-12T00:30:15.262+09:00Comments on Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*: Sign of the timeskushibohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-5492094253064330152010-07-14T14:20:33.572+09:002010-07-14T14:20:33.572+09:00I think you may be right, and Wikipedia seems to s...I think you may be right, and Wikipedia seems to support your theory. <br /><br />But I'm almost certain that when the bubble tea fad erupted — about a third of the way through this just ended decade, when over the course of a few months these shops suddenly appeared on every street corner in places like Shinchon — I read "bubble tea" in English-language signs throughout Seoul and heard that used in Korean.kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-60609744305200109202010-07-13T10:46:22.352+09:002010-07-13T10:46:22.352+09:00I've heard it called that ("Bubble Tea&qu...I've heard it called that ("Bubble Tea") here in Australia too. I first remember hearing the term around ten years ago, but my Seoulian wife whom I met just a few years ago wasn't familiar with the term before hearing it from me.<br /><br />I suspect the term is a Taiwanese-English perversion in origin, and so may not have propagated to Korea.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09876851783842038190noreply@blogger.com