Size Matters: South Korea Spared iPad Mini Image's Potentially Offensive Gesture

Size matters: South Korea spared iPad mini image's potentially offensive gesture

Apple has chosen to use a different image in South Korea to promote the iPad mini in South Korea, likely over fears that the version used the rest of the world might resemble an offensive gesture mocking the size of someone's manhood.An iPad mini promotional image from Apple's website in most of the world [top], and the same image in South Korea [bottom]The launch of the updated iPad mini with OLED has unexpectedly sparked a bit of controversy. …

iPad Mini ad edited in Korea to remove gesture inadvertantly mocking your penis

A long-awaited OLED upgrade to Apple's iPad Mini launched this week with an international marketing campaign. But a moment in one ad has drawn controversy in South Korea, as the pinch gesture in it means "you have a small penis" and carries popular connotations of feminism. — Read the rest

Apple Removes Hand From South Korean iPad Mini Ad Over Gesture Some See as Mocking Men's Genital Size

Apple’s South Korean website shows the new OLED iPad mini without the pinching hand used in other markets, amid controversy over the gesture’s possible interpretation.