A rural South Korean town is getting roasted over its video ad on garlic that some farmers say stinks of obscenity and has even sexually objectified the agricultural product.
The controversy surrounds a 30-second video that had been posted on a YouTube channel for Hongseong County, a small central-west South Korean town of about 100,000 people known for its local 바카라Hongsan바카라 garlic, for about two years.
The video shows a woman touching the thigh of a man named 바카라Hongsan바카라 with a full garlic head mask and saying words like 바카라very thick바카라 and 바카라hard바카라 to apparently describe the quality of the local garlic.
It's also a parody of a famous scene from a 2004 hit Korean movie titled 바카라Once Upon a Time in High School바카라.
The spicy ad, which reportedly generated about 190,000 views, had been largely kept underground but began to take root in the larger public when it was aired on electronic billboards at a Seoul express bus terminal and a downtown street in the central city of Daejeon last month ahead of the garlic's release.
One farmer who saw the video notified some farmers' groups, while South Korean media also began reporting about it, leaving a bad taste in people's mouths.
바카라We can't repress our astonishment,바카라 said a joint statement issued by the local branches of two major farmers' organizations 바카라 the Korean Peasants League and the Korean Women Peasants Association.
바카라The video offended the people who watched it and dealt a big blow to the image of the agricultural product that farmers have laboriously grown.바카라
Calling the video 바카라suggestive바카라 and 바카라inappropriate바카라, the statement said it "sexually objectified바카라 garlic.
The farmers' groups asked Hongseong to apologize, punish those responsible for the video production, and formulate steps on how to prevent similar incidents.
Shin Ji Youn, an official at the Korean Women Peasants Association, said the farmers' groups asked Hongseong to respond to their requests by August 10.
Hongseong officials said on Wednesday they've withdrawn the video from their YouTube channel and stopped airing it on the billboards last week.
The county hasn't issued any official statement on the issue, and officials said they are discussing how to respond to the farmers' requests.
County officials said they formally changed the name of their local garlic to 바카라Hongseong바카라 after their county name in January.
Many South Koreans believe garlic, one of the essential ingredients in Korean cuisine, boosts stamina. Some think it can improve men's sexual functions as well.
During the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the country's women's curling team earned the nickname of 바카라Garlic Girls바카라 바카라 four of the team's five members came from another rural town known for its own famed garlic 바카라 as they had a fairy-tale run to win the silver medal.
(Inputs from PTI)
