South Korean football club accidentally use sex dolls to replace fans in closed stadium

Support: The sex dolls holding up a sign reading “FC Seoul Hwaiting”
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K-League club FC Seoul has apologised after "mannequins" used as stand-in fans and placed in stadium seats turned out to be sex dolls.

With matches being played behind closed doors due to coronavirus, FC Seoul - one of the biggest clubs in South Korea - decided to populate the seating area with "fashion mannequins."

The move followed other top-flights clubs using inventive ways to fill empty seats, such as hand-drawn self-portraits by young fans or toy versions of club mascots.

FC Seoul opted for life-size "mannequins" - 20 female and five male - only for fans on social media to notice something was amiss.

The "mannequins", kitted out in club attire, were holding signs advertising adult streaming websites and adult stars, which the dolls had been designed to resemble.

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“We would like to apologise to the fans,” FC Seoul said in a statement on Instagram. “We are deeply sorry about the mannequins that were seated during the May 17, 2020 match.

"However, we would like to clarify that while these mannequins have been made to look and feel like real humans, they are not for sexual use — as confirmed by the manufacturer.

"We had them supplied by a company... which claimed they are clothing mannequins. We double- [and] triple-checked that they are not for sexual use."

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It added: "Prior to supplying them to us, [the manufacture] had these mannequins returned from its streamer management label. In this process, they had been given names of the streamers.

"That is the only reason there is an association with the streamers. We failed to check up on this part and that is indeed our fault."

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