• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.38
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• pp.217-236
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• 2015

Character business is generally synthetic business over the cultural barrier and it is highly estimated because it creates high added value as emotional business when emotional marketing is the hottest thing on the market lately. So, the long seller characters are regarded as important items much further. , the typical long seller character in Korea, succeeded in both the cartoon and animation with popularity and there are plenty of OSMU (One Source Multi Use) products spinning from it. Since 2000, however, the markets of comics, animation and characters have been departmentalized, and the characters which were analytically designed, have appeared. For these reasons, the characters market of is exceedingly stagnant than ever before. This is aimed at determining the reason why the characters market of is depressed focusing on the storytelling and then, displaying the innovation strategy for storytelling in .