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Podol and Posun are the characters that symbolize the police. It is a mascot for approaching citizens friendly. This time, the appearance of the female police, Posunyi, has changed.

As shown on the right side of the screen, all three have changed, and reporter Han Sang-woo explains what Posoon wore pants instead of a skirt in 21 years.

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is Podoli and Posuni, the police mascots created in 1999 by cartoonist Lee Hyun-se.

Men's police in pants and short-haired women's police in skirts, but Poshun looks different in 21 years.

Remove eyelashes and turn skirts into pants.

Also, like Podol, I decided to put on big ears to mean better listening to the voice of the people.

[Lee Sung/People's Office of Women's Equality Policy: Demonstrate that the police can perform the same tasks regardless of gender, to protect the safety of the people.]

Posooni's clothing does not fit the reality and has a fixed gender role and gender The discrimination factor was considered.

[Inspector Yoon Ji-won, Police Department, Police Department: Actual policewomen are wearing pants work clothes in the field and working as a police officer rather than emphasizing femininity as a female police officer, but I think they can reflect that more. and]

it is podolyi and posunyi model installed in the Police Department.

Now I have lashes and I am wearing a skirt. Now I need to change all of these models.

The police say they don't need a separate budget because they plan to change models or signs that need to be changed naturally due to wear or color changes.

In addition, he added that the opinion to create a neutral mascot that is not a symbol for men and women is not considered because a separate budget is needed.

(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, Video editing: Ha Sung-won)