eBay Korea Apologizes for Using Hotel Sex, Beached Corpses to Advertise Its Site

[mandy]

Why do you suppose eBay's Korea unit which accounts for 77% of its Asian revenues is feeling competitive pressure? 

eBay Korea wins today's award. 

The South Korean unit of U.S. auction giant eBay Inc. apologized Wednesday for using online ads featuring inappropriate film clips...

Since early this month, Internet Auction, South Korea’s leading online auctioneer, has been under public and media fire for placing six ads using hard-core contents including a sexual interlude in a hotel room, school bullying and a corpse on the beach on its Web site.

Swarmed with complaints from site-visitors, the company quietly retracted the ads on May 2...

One of the six ads, seen by Yonhap News, shows a man with a knife shoplifting a bag from a woman. The man then finds one of the woman’s severed hands attached to the stolen bag amid a narration, “(Expletive) she can buy it (again) on the Auction.”

full article: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/2...811990.htm

[bargainbloodhound]

[jezebel]

Their marketing department was very drunk the week they made the ads.