Yeongsimi

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

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.