South Korean cartoons of the 2000s

Pororo and Cubix are perhaps the most famous of the mid 1990s-early 2010s wave of South Korean animated tv shows out there. 

While South Korean animations are still finding their footing on the international stage, it’s nice to see that the South Korean animation industry has stinkers as well as glories. 

Although it’s a Mainland Chinese-South Korean coproduction with unremarkable character designs, Hey Yo Yorang actually is a witty show. The jungle themed episode has a pair of Tarzan and Jane pastiches, which was made possible because in 2001, the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books had already become (retroactively) PD in both PRC and most African nations.