Oxford (toy company)
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Oxford is a South Korean toy company, based in Busan
Busan
Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

, that makes interlocking brick toys. The company was first founded in 1961 as Dongjin Ind. Corp. The company's small sized blocks are compatible with Lego
Lego
Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

 brand bricks, and the company makes blocks in larger sizes for younger children. Oxford has licenses to make themed sets from Disney, Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty
is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States...

 and Pororo
Pororo
Pororo the Little Penguin is a computer-generated animated cartoon series created by Iconix Entertainment, Ocon, SK Broadband, EBS with the North Korean company Samchŏlli in Kaesŏng. Production began in 2002 and the program began airing in South Korea on EBS-TV in 2003...

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Small blocks

The company produces small block sets in several themes including:
  • Military
  • Transport
  • Town
  • Fire
  • Police
  • Spy
  • Three Kingdoms
    Three Kingdoms of Korea
    The Three Kingdoms of Korea refer to the ancient Korean kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium...

     historical sets
  • Gwanggaeto the Great historical sets
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