Yeongsimi

Yeongsimi is Korean animated series produced by Bae Geum-taek. The story is about innocent but zany adolescent girl Young-sim's normal life. The original version was a comic book first produced in 1990, and after that it was broadcast on KBS in the same year. The popular video version has 13 episodes in total. Young-sim is a representative character of the early 1990s.

A novel version was made in 2004, followed by a musical which has been performed since 2008.

Plot

Young-sim is a fourteen-year-old girl who has a round face, round eyes and a pony tail. Her boyfriend Wang Gyeong-tae follows her incessantly. He is considered ugly and stammers when he speaks, but he deeply loves Young-sim. Young-sim treats Gyeong-tae coldly. However, Young-sim displays considerable jealousy upon discovering Gyeong-tae was with another girl. Her mean best friend and her sister Sun-sim add humor to the story.[1]

Novel

In the novel version, Bae Geum-taek modernized the setting from 1990's Korea to that of 2004. Otherwise the plot is unchanged.

Episodes List
Episode Subtitle Air Date
1 Yeongsimi's Dream 5 October 1990
2 Class President Election 12 October 1990
3 "Exam" 19 October 1990 While at a reunion, Young-sim 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-shim 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-shim appear on the quiz program.[2]
4 "Quiz" 26 October 1990
5 "Sunsimi's Birthday" 2 November 1990
6 "Camping" 9 November 1990
7 Life is short, and art is long 16 November 1990
8 "Superstition" 23 November 1990
9 "Star Prince" 30 November 1990
10 "I Want to Know" 7 December 1990
11 "Kyung Tae!" 14 December 1990
12 "Boot Camp" 21 December 1990
13 "Mom, Dad, I Love You" 28 December 1990


References
  1. Naver encyclopedia Youngsim
  2. 🌈만화동산 | 영심이 3회⭐시험 | 19901019 KBS방송, retrieved 2022-08-08
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