Wink Ceremony for Jo Ah-yong (Badminton) |
[뉴스줌=정진태기자] In the future, anyone will be able to use the Yongin city character ‘A-Yong Jo’ without any special restrictions.
Jo Ah-yong is the main character in the 4th Our Neighborhood Characters Regional Category Grand Prize, 200,000 Kakao Talk emoticons sold out in 8 minutes in 2021, and 250,000 Kakao Talk emoticons sold out in 19 minutes in 2022. There was a flood of requests to use the .
Yongin City designated Jo Ah-yong’s character as ‘Public Nuri Type 4’, and from the 2nd of next month, all citizens can use it without worrying about copyright.
Public Nuri is a system that allows the public to use works produced by the state, local governments, and public institutions without separate permission.
Accordingly, the Yongin city character Jo Ah-yong can be freely used by any citizen without a separate permission.
However, the source must be indicated and commercial use is prohibited. Also, you must not damage the identity of the character by arbitrarily changing the color, shape, etc. of Jo Ah-yong or process it as a secondary work.
The city discloses 50 image files and user manuals for children through its website (Introduction to Yongin-Character Bulletin Board).
In addition to the basic type (4 types) and applied type (38 types), 8 types of emoticons newly developed this year were also included. New emoticons and images will be added continuously.
A city official said, “Thanks to the interest and support of 1.1 million citizens, Jo Ah-yong’s popularity is growing rapidly. .
In addition, he added, “We will seek ways to utilize various contents so that Jo Ah-yong can be reborn as a representative soft power of Yongin like ‘Kumamon,’ a symbol and representative tourism product of Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.”
Meanwhile, the city opened an offline store ‘Joa-yong in Store’ at Giheung Station in April. In particular, it has signed an agreement with the Yongin Regional Self-Support Center and provided jobs for the socially disadvantaged.
