"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable." - Walt Disney
Okay, we're back in Korea again! Just had to take a pit stop into the arcade/music studio in Game Land to listen to some awesome Nintendocore. I must say, one of the things I love about Asian culture is the way that they portray cuteness within their cartoon characters. Hello Kitty ™, Kerropi ™, Blue Bear ™, etc. They are so cute ^_^; (Why can't Americans make a bunch of cute cartoon characters like that? >.>;) The Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese do it so well! But, I want to take this time to focus on cute Korean cartoon characters in this post. These are just a few that I have liked for a while and/or thought were just so amazingly adorable from fist appearance:
Blue Bear: This cute little creature is actually Southern Korean and is part of a Korean school stationary store called Morning Glory. I believe there's also a flower shop by the same name. Blue Bear is found mostly on school supplies such a pencils, notebooks, paper, folders, etc. Just soooo cute.
Panyang Girl: A bunch of cute little girls in cute little settings having a ton of fun. If they were real, I would adopt them and take them all home like so. Haha! There are tons of wallpapers online with them. Of course, girls love them =]
4Crain: These little animals were created by Byung-Kyu Lee. There are characters such as Neco, ChicoChico, and the Maguri Brothers. I wish they made stuffed animals that looked like them in America.
Dooly: Children's cartoon character that is very popular in Korea. Dooly is a little dinosaur (Again, stuffed animals please! >.<) It was created in the 80's so it's older than I am...but cute! :D
Here's some other Korean cartoon characters to check out if you're interested. Just Google search them and you'll get a ton of adorable wallpapers :)-
-Pucca
-Piyoz
-Mashimaro
-Onion Head (emoticons)
-Gamenara
-RooRoo & RaaRaa
- Mini Valley
-Wish Wing the Bear
It's rather difficult to find this stuff in America unless you shop online or actually go to Korea (I don't really do that much online shopping so i'm just going to shop around at different Asian stores to find unique characters when I get the chance >.<). But, all in all, Koreans really do know how to draw cute and memorable animals geared towards children and teens. America, step your game up in this department. Disney characters aren't going to cut it any much longer.
-Monique
Awwwh, SO cute! What's the little white one up there? He's so adorable. I wish there was stuff like this in America. I'd probably single-handedly keep them in business. LOL I'm such a sucker for adorable cartoons/stuffed animals. Is it bad that I want to have my 20th b-day at Build-a-Bear? Does that mean I have a problem? :)
ReplyDeleteLol, not at all! I actually used to work at Build-A-Bear and the little stuffed animals are uber cute! ^_^' And the little white bunny at the top is Mashimaro! :D He's a popular one.
ReplyDeleteI was stationed in South Korea with the US Military in 1988-89. I bought two Korean Vampire Stuffed animals that were the most adorable things. I bought them for my daughter and I still have them boxed up in really good condition. The problem is I can't remember the character names. I know they were very popular characters when I was there. Can anyone help me with the character names. I would think there couldn't be very many anime vampires during that time period. :) I can probably take a pic to post if someone thinks they would need a pic first. Any help would be great.
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