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A white tiger named 'Soohorang' and an Asian black bear called 'Bandabi' were unveiled on Monday as the two mascots for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Pyeongchang scheduled to begin from February 9 to 25.
“Soohorang and Bandabi will be your good friends and promote the Pyeongchang Olympic Games to the whole world,” Lee hee-beom, president of the Games organising committee, told students during a ceremony at Hoeng Gye elementary school in Pyeongchang.
Derived from Korean words, Soohorang is made of two words - 'protection' (Sooho) and 'tiger' (ho-rang-i).
The white tiger is considered a sacred guardian animal in South Korea, with some locals considering the Korean peninsula to be tiger-shaped.
The 1988 Seoul Olympics also featured a tiger mascot.
The Paralympic Games mascot “Bandabi” represents courage and strong willpower, organisers said.
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