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Last update - 16:53 16/04/2008 South Korean cosmetics company pulls ad campaign with Nazi references By The Associated Press Tags: Nazi, Simon Wiesenthal Center  A South Korean cosmetics company said Wednesday it will discontinue an advertising campaign that includes Nazi references, following complaints from a leading Anti-Semitism watchdog group and the Israeli Embassy in Seoul. The ad shows a young woman in a military-style trench coat holding a soldier's cap that appears to have the swastika-gripping eagle Nazi insignia. The version shown in previews contained the slogan: 'Even Hitler didn't have the East and West.' The Coreana Cosmetics Co. decided Tuesday to withdraw the television ad, which promotes the company's skin lotion, in efforts to prevent further controversy, according to company spokesman Kim Yoon-ho. Advertisement Korad, the Seoul-based agency that produced the ad, said it believed a Nazi soldier and Hitler "symbolized revolution, that is in keeping with the lotion's revolutionary moisturizing and calming effects." It said "the reference to the East and West emphasized the product's dual functions." The cosmetics firm changed the slogan before the ad's actual airing in February to "No one has ever had the East and West." Yoon-ho said "the revision was designed to prevent controversy." The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Israeli Embassy sent letters of protest to Coreana, calling for the ad's withdrawal, Yoon-ho said. Korad said it apologized to them on behalf of Coreana. Last year, a South Korean publisher agreed to rewrite a best-selling children's book on U.S. history after the Wiesenthal Center criticized it for containing messages that echoed Nazi propaganda. The center has previously protested use of Nazi themes in Korean bars and nightclubs. Related articles: Wiesenthal Center blasts Nazi-themed cosmetics ad in S. Korea Polish right-wing party accused of running anti-Semitic campaign ad New anti-drug campaign equates smoking pot with terrorism Bookmark to del.icio.us   Never forget Peres, at Warsaw uprising memorial: Israel will avenge Holocaust through peace. Return to Haifa Provocative new play evokes sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians   1.   Jews own the concession 17:23  |  Natallie Durson 16/04/08   2.   From verse there is even verse to come....... 17:43  |  Realist 16/04/08   3.   Response to Natallie Durson 21:41  |  Tal 16/04/08   4.   nothing else to do, Israel? 21:44  |  Dav 16/04/08

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