• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.669-677
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• 2008

Since the great success of the Disney animations like , the classification of audience target in animation according to an age group started a possibility of edutainment in the industry. Especially, a few animations for preschool children made by Korea have been largely successful in domestic and foreign markets. The study analyzed a distinguished structure of a story stressed by character by Greimas's theories in the educational animation. The animation for kids as this study target is one of successful contents in edutainment. It also analyzed as one of parallel contents in abroad. It is a meaningful study which considers a story structure of the animation as aspects of edutainment contents for preschool children.

• Digital Contents
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• no.1 s.128
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• pp.58-64
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• 2004

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.470-479
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• 2012

This study was designed to investigate and analyze children's preference on animation characters according to age and gender of the subjects, by surveying 255 children aged from 3 to 5. The animation characters were represented in pictures, and the reasons of preference were collected through individual interview with the children. The $x^2$ verification of SPSS 18.0 Window statistic program was used to verify the difference in preference. As a result, children aged from 3 to 5 showed higher preference on animations produced in foreign countries than the ones produced in Korea, as Korean animations and foreign-country animations had preference rate of 35.7% and 64.3%, and Korean characters and foreign-country characters had preference rate of 22.4% and 77.6% respectively. Depending on the age of children, there was significant difference among animation characters that the children prefer ($x^2=302.474^{***}$, P<.001), and it was shown that children at the age of 3 showed preference on 'Pororo' of Pororo the Little Penguin, children at the age of 4 on 'Tayo' of Tayo the Little Bus and 'Amu' of Shugo Chara, and children at the age of 5 on 'Shin Chan' of Crayon Shin Chan. It was also revealed that there was significant difference among animation characters according to the gender of children ($x^2=120.864^{***}$, P<.001); boys preferred 'Pororo' of Pororo the Little Penguin the most, followed by 'Doraemon' of Doraemon, 'Thomas' of Thomas and Friends and 'Tayo' of Tayo the Little Bus, and girls preferred 'Pororo' of Pororo the Little Penguin the most, followed by 'Apple' of Little Princess, 'Amu' of Shugo Chara and 'Loopy' of Pororo the Little Penguin. Through this study, it is hoped that the development of children animation would advance further, and that this study could be used as the preliminary resource.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.170-176
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• 2011

When the process of planning and production of Pororo is to be analyzed, scientific and meticulous contents planning which considered even cultural discount, and collaborative business partnership which maximized the strength of each participants are found to be the main success factors. Owing to them, Pororo has resulted in continuous profit making through various outlets, the production of series up to 4 seasons, and successful sales in foreign markets. However, OSMU strategy as the key business strategy was not intended from the stage of planning, but was resulted as the business process after good contents were created. In order to have more successful cases like Pororo, and to build a good animation industry ecosystem, efforts by the industry and effective supporting system by the governments should be met.

• Digital Contents
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• no.12 s.127
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• pp.82-89
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• 2003

정보통신부가 주최하고 한국소프트웨어진흥원과 한국데이터베이스진흥센터가 공동으로 주관하는 디지털콘텐츠 대상 3/4분기 수장작이 정됐다. 디지털영상, 온라인게임, 교육용콘텐츠, 무선콘텐츠, 웹정보콘텐츠 등 5개 부문 총 7개 작품이 선정된 이번 3/4분기 디지털콘텐츠 대상 수상작들은 전 분야에 걸쳐 우수한 작품들이 제출돼 심사과정에서도 고민이 있었다는 후문이다. 수상작들을 살펴보면 디지털영상 분야에서는 캐릭터플랜의‘망치’와 아이코닉스엔터테인먼트의‘뽀롱뽀롱 뽀로로’가 수상의 영예를 안았고, 온라인게임 분야에서는 위젯의‘메이플스토리’와 그리곤엔터테인먼트의‘씰온라인’이 공동으로 선정됐다. 교육용콘텐츠에서는 유니메이션코리아의‘스몰 포테이토(Small Potatoes)’가 수상했고, 무선콘텐츠 분야에서는 웹이엔지코리아의‘부루마불’이 선정됐다. 마지막으로 웹정보콘텐츠 분야에서는 로앤비의‘온라인법률정보’가 대상을 차지했다. 이번 디지털콘텐츠 대상 수상업체들은 향후 정통부의 해외 진출과 마케팅을 위한 각종 활동에 우선적으로 참가하는 혜택을 누릴 수 있으며, 연말에 열리는‘디지털콘텐츠페어 2003’전시회에 참가하고, 대통령상 후보에 오르는 자격을 얻게 됐다.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.138-144
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• 2018

A video is a vivid medium similar to human's visual-linguistic experiences, since it can inculcate a sequence of situations, actions or dialogues that can be told as a story. In this study, we propose story learning/regeneration frameworks from videos with successive event order supervision for contextual coherence. The supervision induces each episode to have a form of trajectory in the latent space, which constructs a composite representation of ordering and semantics. In this study, we incorporated the use of kids videos as a training data. Some of the advantages associated with the kids videos include omnibus style, simple/explicit storyline in short, chronological narrative order, and relatively limited number of characters and spatial environments. We build the encoder-decoder structure with successive event order embedding, and train bi-directional LSTMs as sequence models considering multi-step sequence prediction. Using a series of approximately 200 episodes of kids videos named 'Pororo the Little Penguin', we give empirical results for story regeneration tasks and SEOE. In addition, each episode shows a trajectory-like shape on the latent space of the model, which gives the geometric information for the sequence models.