Applicants for a job interview with LG Electronics in Chile had the scare of their lives when the company played a cruel prank on them that has been turned into an amusing TV advertisement.<\/p>\n
To promote just how life-like images appear on the company\u2019s 82-inch \u2018Ultra HD\u2019 TV, LG created a fake office in which one of its screen was positioned to look like a window.<\/p>\n
Four unlucky applicants \u2013 two men and two women \u2013 were then filmed in the fake office being interviewed for a job with the company.<\/p>\n
To begin with, the interview process seems perfectly normal as the interviewer shakes their hand and starts to look at their resume.<\/p>\n
But then the cityscape outside starts to change, the blue sky turns black, a meteor emerges from the clouds and suddenly the city explodes.<\/p>\n
The combination of high-def images and sound is \u2013 apparently – so realistic that each of the four interviewees freaks out, panicking and screaming as they see what they think is their city being destroyed.<\/p>\n
Next the lights go out and the poor unsuspecting victims are left in the dark for a couple of minutes to add to the drama.<\/p>\n
When the lights go back on, the door suddenly opens and in walks the LG team behind the prank to congratulation the poor unsuspecting targets.<\/p>\n
This type of marketing is called a prankvertisement and since the clip appeared on YouTube on Monday it has been viewed more than 700,000 times.