A tiny old-fashioned KOREAN neighbourhood stationery shop right outside an elementary school gate, 1990s-2000s Korea. Korean children in school uniforms and backpacks crouched around a small burner where cheap tteokbokki simmers in a shallow tray, holding wooden skewers. Crammed floor to ceiling with Korean school supplies, plastic toy packets hanging, a claw crane machine, handwritten Korean price labels. Narrow Korean alley outside