Do You Know ‘Mugbangi and Friends’?
Pengsoo was famous from 2020. Pengsoo could be said to be the representative character of 2020 because of the external features that seem to be clumsy no matter what lines or subtitles are added to the expression with big open eyes and lips that don't look like smiling. But now, in Gunsan, there are characters called “Mugbangi and Friends” that surpasses Pengsu. What is “Mugbangi and Friends and Friends”?
'Mugbangi and Friends' was created by the Gunsan Cultural Cooperative. The Gunsan Cultural Cooperative was created with the intent of reviving the site where the factory left in 2016 as the Gunsan area became difficult through the power of the citizens. The concept of development of 'Mugbangi and Friends', the representative character of Gunsan, was set as to symbolize the modern Gunsan through independent port opening to transform the negative modern image while containing the taste of Gunsan and the openness of the port'. For character storytelling, he paid attention to the oldest Gunsan Customs House among modern heritages. As a result, a record was found on Raport, a Frenchman who came to the Gunsan customs office in the 1900s. I found a good material that was called. 'Friends'. Together with the main character 'Mugbangi and Friends', we decided to make friends representing foreigners who lived in Gunsan after opening the port to emphasize the multicultural openness of Gunsan like Kokai in USA, Shibai in Japan, Chai in China, and Sapphire in Korean. ‘Mugbangi and Friends’ contains the intent of making Gunsan a future-oriented modern city with a vision of peace in Northeast Asia without stopping in a city of wounds caused by colonies.
‘Mugbangi and Friends’ can be seen on the Gunsan stamp tour. The stamp tour is operated by visiting tourist spots in Gunsan City and giving various gifts upon obtaining stamp certification. You can choose from a variety of tour courses such as △ 15 places for the entire course △ Stamp book course including 20 certified photo spots △ Leaflet course including 4 time travel villages and 3 Gogunsan Islands. Tourists who want to participate in the stamp tour can receive a stamp booklet or leaflet at the Tourism Promotion Division of Gunsan City Hall or at the grassland photo studio in a time travel village, and then take a certificate or take a certificate at each branch's authentication location, and complete the course. Tourists can get souvenirs at the meadow photo studio. In addition, using an application called “Mugbangi and Friends’ AR Gunsan Stamp Tour” will make your trip even more fun.
As we talk about ‘Mugbangi and friends. The characters of ’Mukbangi and Friends’ have cute appearance similar to Pengsu, but why don't we think about how hard the citizens of Gunsan worked and made it before Mukbangi and friends appeared? If you come to Gunsan, it would be nice to visit 'Mugbangi and Friends' once.