"The Lupi (the character of a girl) in Pororo is so sulky, he likes only cooking."

The source who talked with me said anxiously. My four-year-old son sees manga all day, and every popular comic will instill stereotypes about 'a man has to be, a woman has to be.' Most of the characters in the cartoon are brave and open-minded male characters. The female character is said to be an admirable and good supporting character, or an auxiliary role that should ease the torch easily. I already saw the son saying 'the man should not cry' but he can cry the man too ... "I was in trouble.

A study (2018, Professor Shun Yun-mi, Department of Pediatric Mental Health, Ajou University Hospital) showed that two to five-year-old infants who watch TV for three days or more a week reach 70 percent and half of them watch TV for an average of one hour or more a day. If you add up to watching TV using a smartphone, the figure will rise further. I could not believe that the infant animations that young children often see are repeating the old-fashioned depiction. I decided to find out if it really was.

● Over the past three years, 65% of EBS comic strips have been portrayed as sexist characters.

According to an analysis by a civic group 'Political Mothers', 23 out of 35 manga series (65%) that have been shown on EBS for the past three years have expressions and settings that can give stereotypes about the roles of gender roles. It was packed. Let me introduce some of the contents that this organization analyzed and organized.

Cocomong 3
The role of making or competing an invention is men, the role of jealousy and jealousy is a woman, and the role of gender is clearly divided.

Robocarpy
Among the six characters, one is female, the female character is pink, and the male character is blue. Incidental accidents appear solely as an auxiliary role, such as male characters resolving courageously, and female characters spraying flowers.

Brave Fire Engine Ray
A woman likes pretty things and is depicted as a tearful character. It is drawn to a person who is interested in decorating the appearance so that he lied to a colleague who patted together to go to the makeup. Housework is dedicated to the hero's mother.

flowering heart
Diet is presented as a way of solving the problem of a girl being teased with fat. I suggest that you make your appearance look pretty when you fail diet.

What about the sex ratio of characters? According to the analysis of sexual roles reproduced in the cartoon program of young children in the Journal of Broadcasting of the Year in 2015, 63 characters (147 persons) of 49 characters in 49 animations from 8 places including 3 terrestrial stations and 5 cable broadcasting stations, , And 37% (84 persons) were female. The animations that kids see are never numerically equal or qualitatively equal.

● "The role of the castle set by the society is unfortunate to learn ... I'm sad"

I have heard of parents who have to show these animations to their children.

[Kim Shin Ae / Seoul Mapo-gu]
"My daughter likes Sophia Princess and her son likes Helocabot (robots), daughter pretending to cook while dressing up in a princess dress, son playing robots with a loud voice, girls can be brave, I can cook and comb hair ... I think it is unfortunate that I am unfortunate to learn the role of fixed sex that society has decided.

[Yoon Ryeong / Seoul Songpa]
"My mother is a parent, and my mother is a mother, and my father is always out of town, and my mom is saying at home to my dad. I was very upset when I saw that scene before the reinstatement. "

[Zhang Hana / Representing Political Mothers]
"It is clear that there are a growing number of parents who say that this is not the case in the old-fashioned anime in which a pretty-looking girl is loved, and a female character is portrayed as virtue of being a mother and cooking well. Equality guidelines are required. "

● "Gender Equality Broadcast Program" Production Guide distributed ... Guidance Room for Families

However, there is no guidelines in our country at all. Last year, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family published the Guide to Gender Equality Broadcasting Program. According to the guidebook, "the prevalence of the main characters in the children's program is overwhelmingly higher than that of the adult programs," "men are more aggressive," and "women are more proud of being sexually active." We recommend that you improve. However, there is no compelling reason.

There are compulsory regulations. Article 30 of the Regulations for Broadcasting Communications Deliberation also states that "the stereotype of sex role should not be encouraged by uniformly specifying the appearance, personality, and role of the specificity." However, The number of sanctions was "0". Gender equality in animation was not a concern of the Korea Communications Commission.

● Strengthening regulations in overseas, midnight effort ... Korean version 'Bendel test' required

Overseas, we recognize the importance of media that affects infancy early on, and have decided to create a gender-equality program for children. In Australia, for example, in 2009, the CTS (Children's Television Standard) was established under the Act on Broadcasting Service Act (Broadcasting Service Act) I can not do it.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which has a children's broadcasting channel, announced last year that the president directly apologized and strengthened stereotypes of boys, Instead, a woman mechanic made efforts to create a new comic, the main character, at midnight.

If it is difficult to call for strengthened legal regulations or midnight efforts in a short period of time, there is one way to refer to it. Professor of the Department of Social Education, Kyunggi University, suggests 'Bendel test'. Professor Sul is a researcher who analyzed the element of discrimination in elementary and middle school textbooks in cooperation with the NHRCK in 2016.

[Professor, Department of Social Education, Kyunggi University

"There is a" Bendel test "that measures the gender equality of a movie in an easy way, developed by an American writer, a film that has passed the" Bendel test "when three conditions are met: First, The main theme of the dialogue should not be a man, it is not a binding regulation but it is used as an index to evaluate movies. What if we recommend that you create a kind of simple indicator to measure and then broadcast an animation that passes through the indicator?

The sensitivity of the society has increased rapidly. There are many people who dream to live as members of society freely according to their own temperament instead of 'manly man' and 'true and gentle woman'. The animations that children will encounter in such a society should not remain on the level of decades ago.