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The first Seoul Sex Education Expo opened with a flop on Thursday, when organizational blunders including the cancellation of the main event meant that many who had turned out demanded a refund.
A written notice put up at the venue at 11 a.m. announced that events including a semi-strip show and a transgender pageant were cancelled. There had been no advance notice, and spectators who had gathered since early morning ground their teeth in frustration and some 100 of them pounded on the door of box office demanding their money back.
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Models dance at the Seoul Sex Education Expo, which for days before opening excited tempers due to a strip show and nude picture-taking events, after they were cancelled on Thursday.
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"Now that they've dropped all the good stuff, what exactly is it that they are telling us to go and see?¡± a couple who had come all the way from Busan for the event said. ¡°If this is how it¡¯s going to be, they never should have been approved in the first place, or they should do things the way they were advertised. They¡¯re just raking in the expensive admission fees." A man in his 60s protested, "I came here because I saw the ads, but this is a complete fraud. The organizers have to take responsibility."
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People browsing at the first Seoul Sex Education Expo on Thursday.
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But the real killjoys were the immigration authorities, since the models who were supposed to perform had come to Korea on travel visas, which ban them from working here. The Seoul Immigration Bureau says it told the organizers that all performers had traveled to the country with visas that do not allow them to give public performances and that they could be punished if they went ahead with the event as planned. The organizers said they ¡°didn¡¯t realize the event was going to give rise to public censure.¡± They apologized for the strip show being scrapped but vowed the rather less alluring seminar and exhibitions will go ahead as planned.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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