Core77 - Blog • Jan. 21, 2026, 4:17 p.m.

Korea has a long history of producing fine ceramics, dating back some 8,000 years. Image: National Museum of Korea - KOGL Type 1 The country also, like neighboring Japan, has a love of cute, primitively-drawn cartoon characters.

So it was just a matter of time before someone combined the two. These pieces are by Korean ceramicist Jiho Song : Because he draws each character by hand, he can occasionally insert Easter eggs: Song appears to have a pottery studio in Ye's Park, a crafts village in Icheon, but maintains no web presence beyond an Instagram account.

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