The club placed 30 mannequins around the stands, left empty because of the novel coronavirus.
A South Korean soccer club apologized for filling seats left empty because ofPlaying in empty stadiums, teams have resorted to placing banners and cutouts of fans over empty seats, making a better backdrop for television and photos. FC Seoul took it a step further by placing 30 mannequins around the stadium Sunday for its 1-0 K League win over Gwangju FC. The club denied that they had an alternate, adult purpose and called them “premium mannequins.
The club said it had hoped to “do something lighthearted in these difficult times. We will think hard about what we need to do to ensure that something like this never happens again.” Lee Ji-hoon, an FC Seoul official, told the BBC that the team hadn’t checked into Dalkom’s background and added that the dolls looked “very human.”League rules forbid inappropriate or sexual advertisements, so FC Seoul could be fined. “It is not easy to say whether this breaks the rules, as it is not a clear violation,” an unidentified K League official told news site OSEN . “We are trying to get a clear interpretation.
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