A South Korean football team has apologised for using "premium mannequins", supplied by a sex toy company, to fill empty seats at their games.
On Sunday, FC Seoul resumed playing, after the nation's strict coronavirus lockdown conditions were relaxed, but rules meant the stadiums needed to be empty - so when a company called Dalcom offered to fill some seats, FC Seoul agreed.
Dalcom provided 30 mannequins to FC Seoul - 28 female and two male. Eagle-eyed viewers watching the game online pointed out some of the mannequins had suspicious branding, advertising pornography sites.
Dalcom says the adverts came from a sex toy company that placed orders with Dalcom and wanted to take pictures of the mannequins before the game.
"They were supposed to take all the logos down before the game started," Dalcom director Cho Young-june told the BBC. "But there were several hairbands and logos left to be caught by the public eye."
A FC Seoul official says it had not occurred to him the "very human" looking dolls could be sex toys. Lee Ji-Hoon has told the BBC the football club did not bother checking the background of Dalcom, so did not realise the company dabbled in the sex toy industry.
Dalcom has apologised to FC Seoul, but maintains the dolls were "premium mannequins", not sex dolls.
