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Emoticons How much do you spend a day? Emoticons that you use often tell you the personality of the person. Sometimes it is an emoticon that expresses emotions more than characters.

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Poetry written by American poet Robert Herrick in 1648.

In 1862, President Lincoln's speech in the New York Times was not an OTA but an early emoticon.

The first emoticons are uncertain, but the moment when the first emoticons were created was certain.

In 1982, Professor Palman of the Carnegie Mellon University of America proposed using emoticons on school bulletin boards.

It was more economical than text.

36 years later, life without emoticons is now hard to imagine.

Last year, domestic online emoticons market was worth 100 billion won.

[Nam Kwan-woo / emoticon rich person: I think that one or two per month is steadily living. I think it's becoming more expressive.]

We buy and use emoticons that resemble our facial expressions and emotions.

So, emoticons are also trendy.

In the early days, there were many sophisticated emoticons in existing characters and webtoons, but nowadays, emoticons that seem to be painted with feet are popular.

[Professor, Department of Psychology, Busan / Gyeongsang National University: I should say that I projected myself. I'm stressed too much about being perfect. Adults seem to be inadequate, and even if they seem to have a problem, 'that represents me and represents us.'

The way the emoticon is represented varies from region to region.

Orient laughs eyes, Western laughs mouth.

The emoticons I prefer are different in the East and the West.

In Asian countries, emoticons with large and rich expressions and motions are popular.

East Asian countries with strong ethnic homogeneity tend to be sensitive not only to their content but also to the atmosphere and attitude of their opponents. This is also reflected in the emoticons.

[Professor, Department of Psychology, Busan / Gyeongsang Univ.) In this situation, in which characters are given, (words) can be distorted, so they are attached (emoticon) in order to give an accurate meaning.

Emoticons reflect age and culture.

When I look at the emoticons I have now, it is not an exaggeration to say that I can see them.

There is a criticism that it is not enough to use emoticons because of lack of sentence and expression, but the technology changes and the world changes and the way of expression changes accordingly.

Emoticons, then what will replace our feelings and facial expressions?

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