FC Seoul, a top-flight South Korean team, has apologised for
using “sex dolls” to fill empty stands in their first home game against Gwangju
FC on Sunday.
K-League, the country’s professional football, resumed
action on May 8 — several weeks after football activities were grounded to a
halt across the globe over outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Major conditions for the reopening of the league had
included teams playing without fans to combat further spread of the virus.
In a bid to liven up the stadium, Dalcom, a complete
business POS Software and Hardware solutions company, had offered to help fill
some of the empty seats with 30 “premium mannequins” — 28 of them female, and
two of them male.
The move, however, generated backlashes from several
quarters on social media, with fans accusing the club of using “sex dolls.”
Some of the dolls can be seen holding signs advertising
x-rated websites – despite pornography being banned in South Korea.
Reacting to the development on its social media pages, the
football club apologised for the controversies stirred by its action.
The club also dismissed claims that “sex dolls” were used in
the stands, insisting they were “premium mannequins”. It however, admitted that
the “sex dolls” came from a supplier that produces sex toys.
“We would like to apologise to the fans. We are deeply
sorry. Our intention was to do something light-hearted in these difficult
times. We will think hard about what we need to do to ensure that something
like this never happens again,” the club said in a statement on its Instagram
page.
According to BBC, Dalcom has since apologised to FC Seoul,
explaining that the adverts were from a sex toy company who had partnered with
it.
“They were supposed to take all the logos down before the
game started. But there were several hairbands and logos left to be caught by
public eye,” Cho Young-june, Dalcom director, was quoted as saying by the media
outlet.
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