This undated photograph reveals a road commercial displaying gay folks kissing one another. Yonhap
A large-screen commercial displaying gay folks kissing and embracing one another was taken down 4 days after it started airing on the streets of Seoul’s southern district of Gangnam resulting from a collection of complaints.
The matchmaking app for gay folks first appeared on the large display arrange alongside the streets of Gangnam’s Nonhyeon-dong on Aug. 26 below a contract that requires the advert’s airing at the least 100 instances a day for one yr.
The pictures confirmed homosexual and lesbian {couples} taking a look at one another, kissing and embracing.
However the advert was suspended Aug. 30 on the request of the Gangnam Ward authorities.
“Many complaints have been obtained,” a Gangnam Ward official mentioned, including the workplace requested for the advert’s suspension below associated legislation that bans ads which might be feared to hurt conventional customs with obscene content material.
The advert has been changed with one thing else selling one other product of the corporate.
The corporate expressed frustration.
“We spent fairly some huge cash to get the licensing contract for (the app’s) operation within the nation, however it’s just like the mission has gone belly-up,” the corporate’s CEO mentioned. “We had no concept {that a} mission associated to sexual minorities can be coldly handled like this in 2024.” (Yonhap)
