| In a nation like Korea which is poorly endowed with natural resources but abundant in human resources, technology must be the key to increase the national added values. If the technology is featured in terms of aesthetics, it becoms design. In this abundant society, the age when any commodity can sell will not comeback. At the same time, additional added values are required of the functional commodities. Now, the information society full of sensual functions is coming up. Design is a sence, while the information is enhanced by sensual functions. In particular, the fancy commodities are a kind of sensual commodities which may well be differentiated form the ordinary products because they use some or other images or characters added. Currently, many young consumers use various fancy commodities, which in turn affect their emotional and psychological senses. Nevertheless, such enormous effects on our young generation have been overlooked, making them familiar with the western culture full of sensual functions. Therefore, reckless uses of foreign character should be avoided, and instead, a cultural arena should be created to enable our children and youth to see, feel and think about the characters befitting our commotion, at the same time, business managers are requested to recruit more able personnels and increase their investments to have the correct character designs established, while character designers should exert their maximum creative power to present new characters of our own. Moreover, businesses are requested not to spare their efforts to promote national cultural commodities and characters as well as expand the educational arena. With such basic conceptions in mind, this study was aimed at comparatively analyzing the characters between Korea and Japan and thereby, suggesting some data useful to awaken people of our fancy characters and contribute to the development of our own characters. |
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