WTF – Inappropriate Hangers

Filed as: Korea FTW! // Responses: 59

Ok, this one made us laugh a lot. We saw it and knew we had to buy it. Yes, it isn’t as reflective of Korean culture as, say, Korean ear picks, but it’s still a Wonderful Treasure Find! And it’s not imported from Japan or anything like that. This had Korean writing on the packaging. So, yeah! Inappropriate hangers FTW!

Now, this product clearly takes itself as a joke, as can be clearly seen in the “HA!HA!HA!!” written on the packaging. But we think we’re missing out on another joke here. Quoting the package, it says

Hang your guitar safely and conveniently on the wall. The yoke on this guitar hanger adjusts to perfectly fit your instrument. The authentic hardwood block looks sleek and mounts firmly to the wall

Now, this is so nonsensical that we’re thinking this is a Google Translation of a Korean joke or phrase or idiom or something. Is there some Korean innuendo behind instruments and yokes? It kind of exists in English: “Johnny was caught playing with his instrument in Music class,” but the writing on the packaging here seems to suggest that there’s something more to it that we don’t understand quite yet. Does anyone have any guesses?

To be honest, we were really quite surprised when we saw this item. Korea is very conservative, and we don’t really see that many outwardly sexual jokes here, but that maybe because we’re in our foreigner-bubble and not fully engrossed in Korea and its culture, and we only see what’s on the surface. There could be a seedy underbelly that we just don’t know about. Anyhow, from what we’ve seen in Korea, stuff like this barely ever exists, as opposed to Japan, where it was so overt that we were appalled and shocked. We’re thinking that maybe this one just slipped through the inventory cracks somehow and made it to the shelves.

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Anonymous

Lol i would be like O~o er i did not just see that at the super market O_O
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000100004791 Jojo Maisarah Isa

lol
Sistinas â™¥

OH MY!!! I loved Simon’s t-shirt!!
It’s so cute!!! I’d love one.. :DD
Megan Hare

If those hangers had sex would they make baby hangers? Not things to hang your baby on but hangers shaped like a baby. I wonder what the gestation period of a plastic hanger is…..
http://twitter.com/doublecordiform Angela Bonds

Martina, you have totally influenced the way I wear bandanas. I always love you hair accessories.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001849213381 Sarah Lu

… weird
Vincent Kukua

what?

wait. what?
http://twitter.com/sajateacher Ryan Singer

I think the description on the back comes from an entirely different hanger. There are guitar hangers that work exactly as described and are made out of a “hardwood block” that you mount on the wall. I’ve seen many other examples in Korea where text is taken verbatim from another source, that is often unrelated.
http://www.konnectmagazine.com Moses Yoon – bulgogi monster

Ok – I’m clueless as you folks. What in the world is that? Yes, the manufacturer of the product probably had an English speaking marketing executive working on the development of this product.Â

Personally, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’d say that the marketing executive is one clever dude. It probably didn’t sell well here in the United States. I wonder if it’s selling well in the motherland.
http://www.facebook.com/ccha3 Charlotte Cha

My guess is that these hangers are for newly wed couples to help them, uh, want to make babies more? There’s a lot of those kinds of stuff in Korea. Hey, they have a sex garden in Jeju island with erection bushes and such (Jeju island is a popular honeymoon spot).Â
Byeonguk Yook

ROFL!