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Restaurant Offering Free Meal to Unvaccinated Customers Draws Mixed Responses
Korea Bizwire ^ | January 4, 2022

Posted on 01/03/2022 4:54:32 PM PST by nickcarraway

A restaurant that unveiled plans to offer free meals to unvaccinated customers has drawn mixed responses from online commenters in South Korea.

A restaurant specializing in abalone located in western Seoul uploaded a post through its official Instagram account saying that it would provide an additional abalone for free if unvaccinated customers place take-out orders, as a way to express its sympathy and help cheer them up.

In the photo of the restaurant’s entrance that was posted together with the text, there was a sign saying, “The unvaccinated are not virus carriers.”

The post included hashtags such as ‘opposition to COVID-19 vaccine pass,’ ‘opposition to vaccine pass for teenagers,’ and ‘South Korea is a free democracy.’

After the post was shared on various online communities, some supported the restaurant, writing comments such as, ‘We support you and wish you to be prosperous,’ ‘Wish you to be showered with money,’ and ‘We will visit you no matter what.’

However, on a portal site’s review section for the restaurant, a number of critical one-star reviews had been posted.

Some online commentators expressed negative opinions such as, ‘Only unvaccinated people should use the restaurant,’ ‘Vaccine rejection damages society,’ and ‘So selfish.’

Due to the government’s vaccine pass policy, unvaccinated people are limited from using multi-use facilities and are only allowed to visit restaurants and cafes alone if they have proof of a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: allabalone; korea; restaurants; southkorea; unvaccinated; vaccination; vaccine

1 posted on 01/03/2022 4:54:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe they just want to be left abalone.


2 posted on 01/03/2022 6:03:17 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a trap!

Anyone who claims the free meal will be jumped and forcibly vaxxed.


3 posted on 01/03/2022 6:20:49 PM PST by sevlex
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To: Larry Lucido
Maybe they just want to be left abalone.

Well, that pun didn't land. Must have been full of abaloney.

4 posted on 01/03/2022 6:53:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido; nickcarraway

I enjoyed it, Larry :)

Isn’t abalone illegal in most countries? (endangered species)


5 posted on 01/03/2022 8:39:14 PM PST by CatHerd (And we are are on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love - William Blake)
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To: CatHerd
It's not illegal in California, per se. Only farm-raised abalone is allowed to be sold, but divers can get a certain amount of will abalone diving.

Abalone used to be, "food for poor people." Check the John Steinbeck story, Flight.

6 posted on 01/04/2022 12:45:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

How do you prove that you’re unvaccinated?


7 posted on 01/04/2022 12:19:26 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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