This viral Santa recruitment notice can only be deciphered by Korean adults

What happened: An apartment complex in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, posted a coded Santa recruitment notice using English letters, Chinese characters, numbers and symbols to phonetically spell the Korean message. Photos of the notice went viral this week on online communities and social media. Why it matters: The cryptic wording is designed to keep children who can read from discovering the Christmas surprise in advance. Online commenters praised the effort, with one saying adults seemed to enjoy putting it together even more than the children would enjoy the surprise.

An apartment complex in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, posted a coded Santa recruitment notice using English letters, Chinese characters, numbers and symbols to phonetically spell the Korean message. Photos of the notice went viral this week on online communities and social media.

The cryptic wording is designed to keep children who can read from discovering the Christmas surprise in advance. Online commenters praised the effort, with one saying adults seemed to enjoy putting it together even more than the children would enjoy the surprise.