Oct 2, 2021 · It took three years for players to notice the “offensive” hand gesture lurking in one of South Korea’s most popular multiplayer games. When players made their avatars laugh, talk or give the...

May 28, 2021 · This past month alone saw multiple South Korean companies remove their advertisements due to what South Korean men’s rights groups deemed an offensive gesture. The gesture in question is a hand pose with the thumb and index finger in a pinching motion — which the groups are claiming to be a disparaging reference to small male genitalia.

Jul 7, 2024 · SEOUL – Renault Korea, the South Korean subsidiary of French carmaker Renault, is grappling with a backlash over promotional videos that included a controversial finger-pinching gesture...

Nov 27, 2023 · The hand gesture in question is a pinching motion using the index and thumb finger, which had been used as a symbol in the now-defunct Megalia, one of Korea’s largest radical feminist online communities, to ridicule the size of Korean men’s genitals.

Jul 1, 2024 · The Korean unit of French automobile group Renault S.A. has apologised and suspended a female employee who sparked the controversy by making the hand signal in a commercial clip.

Aug 12, 2024 · South Korean prosecutors have ordered the reopening of an investigation into the use of the “pincer gesture,” a hand sign made by pinching the thumb and index finger together, which some men in their 20s and 30s claim is used by radical feminists to mock male genitalia.

Jun 24, 2021 · What is this controversy about? The representative images that have caused controversy are variations of the emoji depicting hands where the thumbs and the index finger pinch towards each other. In South Korea, this symbol is usually used to depict a smaller size.

Jul 8, 2024 · SEOUL – Renault Korea, the Korean subsidiary of French carmaker Renault S.A., is grappling with a backlash over promotional videos that included a controversial finger-pinching gesture perceived as offensive towards men in South Korea.

Oct 8, 2021 · (CNN) — It took three years for players to notice the “offensive” hand gesture lurking in one of South Korea’s most popular multiplayer games. When players made their avatars laugh or talk or...

Jun 11, 2021 · In South Korea, though, the image has been no laughing matter. In recent weeks, the hand, once used as a logo by a now-defunct radical feminist group, has become a point of contention in a...