CHARACTER TYPE STUDY OF KOREAN REPRESENTATIVE CHARACTERS

A characteristic of Korean Representative Character is flat type

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: This research is designed to analyze character type of Korean characters from philosophical, psychological, and literary viewpoint. This is to characterize general fancy, game, and animation characters, and it can contribute to storytelling, motif, creation and marketing of characters on the basis of this analysis. A very significant fact here is that all kinds of characters are flat character type, which verifies distinctiveness is the most important element in creating character. Again, this research is to understand character type, which is the nature of characters, and to discuss the weakness and the direction of Korean characters.