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Is This the Next Baby Shark-Like Phenom?

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Is This the Next Baby Shark-Like Phenom?

South Korea has a new mega-hit cartoon character: Pengsoo the giant penguin.

Is This the Next Baby Shark-Like Phenom?
Credit: Instagram/ giantpengsoo

Pororo and Baby Shark might be the most successful cartoon characters ever created in South Korea in terms of their popularity and generated profits. But that might not be the case for long — newcomer Pengsoo, a human-sized, straight-talking penguin character has caught South Korean eyes.

Pengsoo is a cartoon character created by South Korea’s Educational Broadcasting System (EBS). EBS introduced Pengsoo via its YouTube channel mainly for elementary school students in South Korea, but the penguin now enjoys unexpected popularity with not only youngsters, but also adults across the country.

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