KAWS Young-Hee Vinyl FigureMonotone

Product Description

The KAWS Young Hee Vinyl Figure in Monotone is a vinyl collectible figure from KAWS's collaboration with the Korean drama and cultural phenomenon Squid Game, specifically depicting Young Hee, the giant animatronic doll character from the series whose image became one of the most globally recognized visual icons of popular culture following Squid Game's record-breaking September 2021 debut on Netflix as the most-watched non-English-language series in the platform's history. KAWS's approach to the Young Hee collaboration applies his signature Companion character's X-marked eyes to the Young Hee doll's face, replacing the original character's features with KAWS's iconographic mark in the same manner that the artist has applied his visual signature to existing characters across collaborations with Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob SquarePants, Snoopy, and other globally recognized figures, creating a specific merging of the KAWS world and the Squid Game world that reads immediately to fans of both cultural properties as a meaningful creative encounter between two distinct iconic image systems. The Monotone colorway presents the Young Hee figure in a single consistent color applied across the entire vinyl surface without the color differentiation of standard Young Hee figures or KAWS's typical multi-color production, creating the most sculptural and most art-object-like expression of the figure by stripping away the color information that identifies the character's costume and skin within the Squid Game visual reference and replacing it with a pure form reading that emphasizes the figure's silhouette and three-dimensional construction over its representational identity.

Young Hee's cultural significance as a Squid Game character extends beyond the drama into one of the most potent new global pop culture symbols of the 2020s, with the red-dress schoolgirl robot doll and its game of Red Light Green Light representing one of the most visceral and most shareable concepts from a series that became a genuine international cultural event across social media, costume culture, and mainstream conversation. At $250 retail the KAWS Young Hee Monotone figure is positioned at the standard KAWS vinyl figure price tier for collaborations at this scale. Released January 1, 2025 through KAWS's production channels.

The KAWS Young Hee Vinyl Figure Monotone was released on January 1, 2025 with a retail price of $250.