One fan wrote on the club's official website, angrily blasting the management: "I don't want it so strongly in my heart that it is true that these dolls are actually made by a sex doll company. It's a great shame!"
Another expressed optimism: "Seriously bro, imagine the thought process of filling your stadium with female sex dolls, isn't that a positive mindset, so I think it's a pretty good idea."
A spokesman for the club reiterated that when they bought the dolls, they were assured that they would only represent ordinary people. The company said: 'We have confirmed that although these mannequins look like real people, rest assured they have absolutely nothing to do with adult products.'
Korean clubs use "sex dolls" as spectators
South Korean football club FC Seoul has been fined 100 million won (570,000 yuan) for using love doll sex as a mannequin to substitute for spectators.
As the coronavirus outbreak gradually comes under control in some parts of the world, the few soccer league organizers around the world have been looking for ways to maintain a bit of the traditional pre-pandemic buzz in stadiums starved of spectators.
South Korea's Seoul Football Club has found a unique solution. During the second round K-League match against Gwangju in Seoul, 30 sex dolls were placed in the stands to cheer on the players. Twenty-five of the 30 dolls were anime sex doll, which were dressed with masks and placed at a distance.
According to a photo provided by RT-com, the Seoul Football Club filled the stands with mannequins before the match against Gwangju Football Club to make the atmosphere more lively. Eagle-eyed viewers watched the broadcast and discovered that some of the figures were suspected to be sex dolls.
At first, Seoul Football Club insisted that the mannequins were "not related to adult toys" and were only being used as spectators when no fans were present due to the pandemic. But fans weren't impressed, with one user pointing out that the dolls were adorned with slogans from adult website SoloS: "This incident is deeply insulting and hurtful to women and family fans. It's a shame!"
Under pressure from public opinion, Seoul issued an apology for the incident, saying Dalcom, the company that supplied the dolls in the contest, used samples of dolls that had been returned by other customers and did not notice the content of adult websites on them.
One fan wrote on the club's official website, angrily blasting the management: "I don't want it so strongly in my heart that it is true that these dolls are actually made by a sex doll company. It's a great shame!"
Another expressed optimism: "Seriously bro, imagine the thought process of filling your stadium with female sex dolls, isn't that a positive mindset, so I think it's a pretty good idea."
A spokesman for the club reiterated that when they bought the dolls, they were assured that they would only represent ordinary people. The company said: 'We have confirmed that although these mannequins look like real people, rest assured they have absolutely nothing to do with adult products.'
One fan wrote on the club's official website, angrily blasting the management: "I don't want it so strongly in my heart that it is true that these dolls are actually made by a sex doll company. It's a great shame!"
Another expressed optimism: "Seriously bro, imagine the thought process of filling your stadium with female sex dolls, isn't that a positive mindset, so I think it's a pretty good idea."
A spokesman for the club reiterated that when they bought the dolls, they were assured that they would only represent ordinary people. The company said: 'We have confirmed that although these mannequins look like real people, rest assured they have absolutely nothing to do with adult products.'