Playboy hits Korea - but no nudes

/ Captured from Playboy Korea's Facebook

By Chyung Eun-ju, Park Si-soo

The Korean edition of Playboy magazine hit the shelves of Korean bookstores Monday covering a range of issues from celebrities to social and political stories.

But one critical factor that gained the U.S. magazine international fame is missing: nude photos.

Korean book distributor Kaya Media signed a contract with Playboy in January under which the Korean edition would have no nude photos. This was in line with the American magazine’s editorial policy for overseas editions.

Hugh Hefner launched Playboy in December 1953.

The U.S. edition stopped using nude photographs in March 2016, edition, but the policy was revoked in March this year.