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This study is aimed to examine the local image in subway canopies focused on subway line No.1 Daejeon City in Korea by analysing subway canopy design and emotional response considering geographical language. For this purpose, this study investigated cases of 22 subway canopies of Daejeon City, and then the problems and solutions were presented through the four factors of forms, materials, colors, and lightings in design. As a result of questionnaire survey, the needs for canopy design are suggested and the sensitivity for canopy design related to local image is relatively high. The emotional response is higher to students and ordinary persons in natural geographical language such as 'Daejeon'(related to field), 'Gapcheon'(related to stream), 'Guam' (related to rock) subway, while higher in the busy subway stations to experts who are intensively interested in the canopy design considering geographical language.