S. Korean garlic video ad roasted over purported obscenity
'We can't repress our astonishment,' said a joint statement issued by the local branches of two major farmers' organizations — the Korean Peasants ...
'We can't repress our astonishment,' said a joint statement issued by the local branches of two major farmers' organizations — the Korean Peasants League and the Korean Women Peasants Association. 'The video offended the people who watched it and dealt a big blow to the image of the agricultural product that farmers have laboriously grown.'Calling the video 'suggestive' and 'inappropriate,' the statement said it "sexually objectified' garlic.The farmers' groups asked Hongseong to apologize, punish those responsible for the video production and formulate steps on how to prevent similar incidents.