VIDEO Crossing the line? Maxim Korea's 'sexy CPR' clip stirs controversy
Two bikini-clad women demonstrate CPR in Maxim Korea's YouTube clip. Captured from YouTube
By Jung Da-min, Park Si-soo
Men's magazine Maxim Korea recently came under fire for putting a sexual twist on its
about the life-saving procedure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Critics have lambasted the video, saying it “crossed the line.” A Twitter message critical of the video has been retweeted over 17,000 times with the criticism spreading to other social networking websites.
The 2 minutes 24 seconds clip shows two bikini-clad women demonstrating CPR with captions explaining the key steps to be taken in an emergency.
The clip was posted on Aug. 1 in the lead-up to the summer vacation season. And it became an issue recently.
Criticism dominates online comments, but not everyone has been critical of the video.
“Maxim Korea, from the beginning, is a magazine aimed at meeting the needs of men,” one twitter user said. “Whether one watches the video or not is up to that person.”