Dooly the Little Dinosaur

Dooly • Dooly () Behind his thoughtful words, Dooly is just another baby dinosaur who misses his mother dinosaur. While in Seoul, he was found by a girl named Younghee (), and because she mistook Dooly for a dog she took him home with her and her elder brother Chulsoo (), and made him live with her as a pet. However, her father Gildong () hates Dooly and just beats Dooly up whenever he is annoying. Dooly has superpowers that he received from an extraterrestrial, but doesn't know why. He doesn't quite know how to use it deliberately but in times of danger, he somehow manages to use the power. He points his right finger and yells 'Hoihoi!' He is always biting his tongue and looking silly, but he is both mischievous and loyal. Once in a while, he'll resist, like when he turns Kildong into a dinosaur and sends him to the Amazon, but whenever he does, it always turns against him. Dooly's name, according to the cartoon, is a pun. His older sister - Dooly called her 'brother' because he confused that exact nominal - is named Hana, meaning One or First while Dool, or Dul mean Two in Korean and y or ei mean the same thing in Korean Traditional-Chinese, making him the Second. This is mentioned around the end of then 2nd set of episodes, or the 6th episode, but it is not certain if this is true in manhwa canon due to the anime and manhwa having many storyline differences. While Dooly is having adventures in Seoul and having fun, he meets three friends who Kildong hates too and beats up, all except Heedong (). • Heedong Park () came to live with Uncle Gildong after his parents went abroad to study. He misses his mom every day, but feels utterly entertained by Dooly the Brother. Thanks to the excessive amounts of time he spends with Dooly, he isn't afraid of anything. Dooly once joined a band with Douner and Michael. • Gildong Go () is an Uncle of Heedong and father of Chulsoo and Younghee. He usually scolds Dooly, Douner and Ddochi. He doesn't scold Heedong. • Chulsoo Go () (Cheol-su) is a son of Gildong. • Younghee Go () (Young-hee) is a daughter of Gildong. • Jeongja Park () is a kind-hearted wife of Gildong. == History ==

Dooly the Little Dinosaur was first serialized by its creator Soo-Jung Kim in the monthly manhwa (comics in Korean) magazine Bo-Mool Sum (Treasure Island). It was first shown in the first week of April 1983, and ended about ten years later. There is a spin-off of the manhwa, A Sad Homage to Dinosaur Dooly, Choi Kyu-seok published. == Controversies ==

When Dooly was first created as a TV animation, it received a lot of criticism from South Korean Catholics, South Korean citizens, and the government, reasons cited included the fact that the animation was a bit violent, which was suppressed by the South Korean government, and the adult general public was angered due to its character's attitude of disrespect towards elders, but generally speaking, the younger generation has fond memories of this series and find that the violence is actually a quite realistic portrayal of family dynamics in contemporary South Korea. == Cultural references ==

• Running Man - Episode 25 (2011) • ''Master's Sun'' (2013) • Saturday Night Live Korea - Season 9 (2017) • Run BTS - Season 3 (2019) • ''It's Okay to Not Be Okay'' (2020): One of the main characters is a fan of this work. • Start-Up (2020) Related media Animations Television 1987–1988 animation The original animation and airing were done by South Korean broadcaster KBS. When it was first broadcast in 1987, there were only six episodes, with seven more added later during the second season, so it has thirteen episodes. and re-broadcasting was first done in 1990, and rebroadcast in 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2006. • "Grand Park Disturbance" (; original airdate: October 7, 1987) • "My Friends" (; original airdate: October 7, 1987) • "Hyeongah! Do Not Go" (; original airdate: October 7, 1987) • "Travel to the Past: Part 1" (; original airdate: October 7, 1987) • "Travel to the Past: Part 2" (; original airdate: October 7, 1987) • Season 2 • "Dooly's Anger" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) • "Michol's Debut" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) • "Ddochi's Escape" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) • "The Strange Lamp" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) • "Dooly's Miniature" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) • "The Invaders from the Squid Planet: Part 1" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) • "The Invaders from the Squid Planet: Part 2" (; original airdate: May 5, 1988) Music The songs of this animation are attractive and stimulate people's memories. The famous songs from this animation are the Dooly the Little Dinosaur, Soap Bubbles and Ramen and Briquettes. Among them, Soap Bubbles appeared as BGM covered by another person in the drama Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 in 2023. 2008 animation A new version of the TV series, which began broadcasting in 2008, was Thursday, at 4:00 PM on the Korean animation channel Tooniverse, South Korea's first all-anime/manhwa channel, and SBS. Direct-to-video Sunwoo Entertainment released an educational English Direct-to-video South Korean animation named Dooly's Journey to the World in 1995. Theatrical film Dooly the Little Dinosaur - The Adventure of Ice Planet (Little Dinosaur Dooly: The Adventure of Ice Planet or Baby Dinosaur Dooly - The Great Adventure of the Ice Star) is a Korean animated film released in 1996. It was produced with a production cost of ₩2 billion won and was released in 70 theaters nationwide on July 24, 1996. According to the Korean Film Yearbook, the number of viewers in Seoul was 126,872. Dooly, a baby dinosaur, was trapped in a huge iceberg 100 million years ago and separated from his mother, falling into a deep sleep. One day, pieces of iceberg flowed into the Han River, and Dooly, who woke up from a deep sleep, accidentally stayed at the house of Kildong Go, a small citizen living in Ssangmun-dong, and there wasn't a day that Kildong Go's house became comfortable from that day on. Heedong, the "Fearful Pacifier," Alien Douner, Ddochi Ostrich, and aspiring singer Michol will join, and they will travel to the future to quickly become adults on Time Cosmos. However, due to a time cosmos' error, they head to the ice star in the maze of space, where Dooly meets his dream mother. However, the ice star is dominated by the space villain Bayking, and Dooly and his party begin to be chased by Bayking's army. For the 40th anniversary of the original work, Little Dinosaur Dooly: The Adventure of Ice Planet was re-released in cinemas in the 4K UHD format beginning May 24, 2023. and 's Compass () named Go Kildong Song came out as OSTs. == References ==