{"id":18366,"date":"2020-05-18T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/south-korean-football-team-apologises-for-using-sex-dolls-to-fill-stands"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:53:23","slug":"south-korean-football-team-apologises-for-using-sex-dolls-to-fill-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18366","title":{"rendered":"South Korean football team apologises for using sex dolls to fill stands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-League club FC Seoul said the dolls, used to make stadiums look less empty, had been ordered inadvertently after a \u2018misunderstanding\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A professional football team in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has apologised after \u201cmannequins\u201d it used as substitute fans during a match at the weekend turned out to be sex dolls.<\/p>\n<p>The K-League club FC Seoul said the dolls, which had been dotted around stands currently off-limits to supporters due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>, had been ordered inadvertently after a \u201cmisunderstanding\u201d with the supplier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/south-korean-football-team-apologises-for-using-sex-dolls-to-fill-stands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-League club FC Seoul said the dolls, used to make stadiums look less empty, had been ordered inadvertently after a \u2018misunderstanding\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA professional football team in South Korea has apologise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,627,222,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-football","category-south-korea","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18366\/revisions\/18367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}