Yeongsimi or Young-sim is a South Korean comics serialized 1988 by South Korean cartoonist Bae Geum-taek, and it refers to an animation and other media mix works such as film and TV series based on the original. The story is about innocent but zany adolescent girl Young-sim's normal life.
Plot Young-sim is a fourteen-year-old girl who has a round face, round eyes and a pony tail. Her boyfriend Wang Kyung-tae follows her incessantly. He is considered ugly and stammers when he speaks, but he deeply loves Young-sim. Young-sim treats Kyung-tae coldly. However, Young-sim displays considerable jealousy upon discovering Kyung-tae was with another girl. Her mean best friend and her sister Soon-sim add humor to the story.
Media Film It was released on July 29, 1990.
Animation
The original version was a comic book first produced in 1988, and after that it was broadcast on KBS in 1990. The popular video version has 13 episodes in total. Young-sim is a representative character of the early 1990s.
Episode list EpisodeSubtitleAir Date1Yeongsimi's Dream5 October 19902Class President Election12 October 19903"Exam"19 October 1990While at a reunion, Young-sim's father, who hears the pride of his friends who have a son who is good at studying, forces Young-sim and Soon-sim to study. Young-sim manages to win first place by rolling a kite, drawing a wick, and rock-paper-scissors with Byeol-nim, and her father boasts to his friends. However, when he hears that his friend's son has won the quiz, he decides to have Young-sim appear on the quiz program.4"Quiz"26 October 19905"Sunsimi's Birthday"2 November 19906"Camping"9 November 19907Life is short, and art is long16 November 19908"Superstition"23 November 19909"Star Prince"30 November 199010"I Want to Know"7 December 199011"Kyung Tae!"14 December 199012"Boot Camp"21 December 199013"Mom, Dad, I Love You"28 December 1990
Novel In the novel version, Bae Geum-taek modernized the setting from 1990's South Korea to that of 2004, otherwise the plot is unchanged.
Musical It came out in 2007 under the title March of Youth ().
TV series
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