South Korean Soccer Stadium Fills Stands With Sex Dolls To Give Illusion Of Crowd

You probably can picture a sports team whose fans suck, but trust me, they have nothing on FC Seoul.

The Korean soccer club, unhappy with playing to an empty stadium during the coronavirus pandemic, intended to fill their arena with fashion mannequins to give the illusion of a crowd during their playoff against Gwangju FC. While this in itself is ridiculous enough, things got farcically out of hand when they instead received a load of sex dolls, which they then dressed in supporters' gear and smattered them throughout the stadium.

2016 K League winners FC Seoul inadvertently used sex dolls rather than fashion mannequins to help fill empty stands this weekend. The club has apologised. Both the club and the supplier are pointing fingers at others. (It's not just COVID-19 you need to avoid catching!) #kleague pic.twitter.com/59rSU8XxYL

— Devon Rowcliffe (@WhoAteTheSquid) May 17, 2020

The club apologized, saying they wanted to do something light-hearted and that they didn't "check all the details" (such as the fact the dolls were holding ads for sex toys). They assured outraged onlookers that they thought they were buying normal plastic people and did not recognize the clear adult connotations of their purchase.

Other sports leagues have tried similar methods with regards to reviving the atmosphere of a packed stadium. In Germany and Taiwan, sports organizations have littered their stadiums with cardboard cutouts of smiling fans. They assuredly did not mess up this badly.

While Seoul FC's gaffe is certainly embarrassing, on the bright side this does mean sports are inching their way back after leagues around the world shut down due to the coronavirus, and now they're even sexier than ever before.