page_title: Cartoon Street
section_title: Street route
hierarchical_section_title: Cartoon Street / Street route
caption_attribution_description: English: Zaemiro, Cartoon Street, Seoul.
context_page_description: Cartoon Street, also known as Zaemiro, or the "street of fun," is a street in the central part of Seoul, South Korea, which extends 450-meters from Myeong-dong Station to the Seoul Animation Center on the hillside of Mount Namsan. The area, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, is an open-air cartoon gallery of graffiti-like paintings, comics' quotes and short stories; with small parks and a multipurpose cultural hall.
context_section_description: The entrance of the street begins as a tiny alley found between Exits 2 and 3 of Myeongdong Station, along subway line No. 4, at a fork in the road by the Pacific Hotel.
  By 2015, the city had decorated the bus stop at  Exit 3 of Myungdong Station, near the entrance to the street, with more than 32 images of Tayo the Little Bus, a character modeled after city buses. The "Tayo bus stop", along with "Tayo" city buses, was part of the Public Transportation Day" commemoration on March 26, 2015.
  Cartoons are found at the street's entrance, with the manhwa Tower of God by SIU and continuing uphill, include Run Hanis characters racing each other, Dooly the Little Dinosaur, and Spirited Away's Kaonashi. The street seems to cover Korea's manhwa history from the 1970s robot Jjibba, to the prince and princess featured in 2002’s Goong or Princess Hours. Local shop owners and hotels also started adding artwork and Korean history to their storefronts.
caption: Cartoon Street and Seoul Animation Center street signs below N Seoul Tower, November 2015.
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