We are all familiar to monopods, right? It is this stick where we fix our phones on so we can take good pictures of ourselves without having to exert too much effort stretching our arms just so we can capture nice angles. I don't know where it actually came from, but it did became popular in the Philippines a year before it took South Korea by storm. While it's called 'monopod' in the Philippines, the Land of the Morning Calm call it the 'selca-bong' or the selfie stick.
What's the connection?
There's this topic being talked about in South Korea today. It's the picture above. It seems like an ordinary photo, at first look, but when we pay attention to the fact that it's a self-taken picture dated October 1926, that's where everything becomes fairly amusing.
If you look closely to the image, the man has his hand out, holding a stick (the lengthy shadow). The note supports what the image claims. This drove people in South Korea to thinking that many decades ago, there was already a selca-bong.
But now that I've thought about it, I think this is just a product of an amazing photoshop skill. Hah. I'm not dismissing the idea of course but 1926 doesn't seem like the year of timers on cameras, right? There are hand-held types already but I don't think it's that age already where these 'small' gadgets can actually be fixed on a stick, held by just one hand. Nope, that's not the way it is.
This picture might be real, or might be not. But whatever, it's amusing!
