An Action Plan for Comic Book Monitoring in Korea 1. It was not too long ago that comics, a friendly and recreational media which has gone side by side with human progression, gained their rightful reception as mass media. In the West, comics become widespread in the capitalistic society as a commercial publication after the 19th century. Generally, comics which have one frame of a current event or such is called a cartoon.
Comic strips have four or more frames connected together to make up a story.
In the 1910s, they were a satirical genre, used as a way to express social criticism, making fun of the Japanese and pro-Japanese powers. After the 1920s, with much censorship and suppression from the Japanese, comics became popular to the masses as a source of recreation. During the 1950s, the publication of 'Prince of the Jungle,' an exact duplication of a Japanese comic, established comic books in Korea and gave children some good reading materials on one hand, but on the other, served to promote low-quality commercial comics. The dominance of Japanese comics in Korea is creating many problems. Currently, the import of Japanese comics is illegal in Korea.