Eumseong County Mascot Geodori Gets a New Standard Design

Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province, announced on February 22, 2023, that it had finished redesigning its county mascot, Geodori. To celebrate the newly born Geodori, the county also released free emoticons.

Geodori is a mascot that personifies the turtle from the turtle game, a traditional folk game of Eumseong. The character draws on a local folk game. The 2023 redesign gave Geodori a new standard design, and Eumseong County introduced the redesigned Geodori as the birth of a new Geodori. The character's origin in the turtle from the turtle game carried over after the redesign.

A standard design is the form used as the reference when a character appears in many places. In effect, the redesign set a new reference look for Geodori. The emoticons marking the redesign were released for free, and Geodori in its new standard design met users as emoticons. Besides emoticons, Geodori has also been used on merchandise.

Alongside Geodori, Eumseong County also has characters such as Gochumi and Ssiagi. The news of the completed redesign and the emoticon release was posted together on a bulletin board on the Eumseong County website on February 22, 2023.