by JAMES S. KIM
This article contains images and content that some may find objectionable.
Spider-Man does whatever a spider can. According to one South Korean artist, Spider-Man also gets morning wood.
The Lotte Shopping Center in Busan, South Korea installed a statue of the classic superhero on the side of its building last year, according to Kotaku. Aside from the awkward pose, the sculpture by artist Eunsuk Yoo bears another difference to most other depictions of the web-spinning character: a very visible erection.
Images of the sculpture have gone viral as South Koreans have voiced their complaints. The fact that the sculpture was installed above the shopping center’s playground and rest area didn’t help. Yoo was apparently told to either take the statue down or “modify” it, which we can only assume means removing the bulge. The artist decided to remove the sculpture completely.
“My reason for (making the sculpture),” Yoo wrote on his Facebook page, “was that I wanted to apply the natural physical phenomenon to a superhero depict what’s natural in the morning without lies and superficial-ness in a comical way.”
“…I understand that a piece that could be interpreted as lewd can be offensive at a place like a shopping mall. It’s disappointing, but I’ll reach out to the public with a better work next time.”
How this statue even got approved (or, er, erected) in the first place is beyond us.
Images via Kotaku
