To get toilet paper, you need to watch an advertisement...What if you don't have a smartphone?
Sep 12, 2025
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A video released by local SNS media 'China Insider' shows a woman receiving a short line of tissue from a supply device after scanning a QR code in a public toilet and viewing an advertisement on her mobile phone.
According to reports, users can choose between watching an advertisement that lasts about 30 seconds or paying 0.5 yuan (about W100) per line of tissue paper.
The toilet paper feeder and the wall have the words 'Free to provide a toilet paper when the actual QR code is scanned', 'Receive a non-face-to-face toilet paper', and 'Free and more hygienic'.
This system was introduced to reduce waste of tissue, but among netizens, there are inconveniences and questions about "What do you do when you leave your cell phone or don't have a battery?" Also, "China is a more capitalist society than the United States"","There is nothing free in the world" There was also a reaction from the back.
Prior to this, in 2017, a face recognizer was installed in a public toilet in Beijing's famous tourist attraction Cheondan Park to provide only 60cm-long tissues for one scan, or to limit the time available to the same person to 9 minutes. In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) technology was applied to introduce a system that allows individuals to receive tissues only once every 10 minutes.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
