{"id":2078,"date":"2004-02-12T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/12\/koreans-crack-down-on-genital-candy\/"},"modified":"2004-02-12T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T12:41:01","slug":"koreans-crack-down-on-genital-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/12\/koreans-crack-down-on-genital-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Koreans Crack Down on Genital Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2621'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/poppi.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\">SEOUL<br \/>\n        &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s Food and Drug Administration on Thursday banned cheeky<br \/>\n        St Valentine&#8217;s Day chocolates shaped like genitals or couples making<br \/>\n        love.<\/p>\n<p>The administration said 15 firms including an Internet shopping site were targeted<br \/>\nby the ban on lewd candy that officials say could give the wrong idea to sweet-toothed<br \/>\nyoungesters.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ahead of the St. Valentine&#8217;s Day, we cracked down on 15 firms which have<br \/>\nproduced or distributed illegal chocolate products,&quot; the administration<br \/>\nsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some of the chocolate candies depict couples engaged in sexual intercourse<br \/>\nor were in the shape of the male genital,&quot; Park In-Won, an administration<br \/>\nofficial told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/eastasia\/view\/70757\/1\/.html\">Channel<br \/>\n      News Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s Food and Drug Administration on Thursday banned cheeky St Valentine&#8217;s Day chocolates shaped like genitals or couples making love. The administration said 15 firms including an Internet shopping site were targeted by the ban on lewd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/12\/koreans-crack-down-on-genital-candy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}