This study is to explore friendship factors and the process of forming friendship in tv edutainment animation ‘Porongporong Pororo’ and present a possibility of this kind of program as a educational media to support the formation of children\'s friendship.
For this study, after precedent studies were considered thoroughly, reciprocity with peer was regarded as a friendship, and then friendship factors and the process of forming friendship were analyzed through a process investigator triangulation(patton, 1990). The results show that friendship factors consist of association, support, conflict, crisis, expression of feeling. Formation of friendship was processed in the program as sequence(i.e., association or support-individual inner crisis or situational crisis or conflict crisis, expression of negative feeling-association, support, expression of inner feeling).
Key Words: TV Edutainment Animation, Friendship Factors, Process of Forming Friendship