I admit that I'm surprised by our samples from Seoul. Though I would be more surprised to find Japanese design, I did expect a strong North-American influence. Not so. Children's signs in South Korea belong to the group inspired by the design from Great Britain. You could state that the influence arrived via China (Hong-Kong), but in my opinion that isn't true. As the Chinese design is the more modern, the evolution would have worked in the wrong direction, away from iconization. We know the reverse is true.

If you make a round of the countries with U.K.-signs you will notice that both children are much taller here than elsewhere. I wonder if that means something.