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Kwon Aeri's friendly economy starts. Reporter Kwon, while shopping online, there are quite a few places that offer'purchase agents' for overseas products, but there are quite a few products that do not meet domestic safety standards?

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Yes. First, let's take a look at some of the products and what is the problem.

These are popular water play tubes with many comments and high rankings in large online shopping malls. When it comes to safety, it does not meet domestic standards.

Once it's all thin, our country needs to make at least two separate compartments for air in the case of such a dip tube.

Even if the tube is torn from water, it is dangerous to run out of wind right away, so it is recommended to make more than one air compartment. These products have only one air compartment. If it were torn, the wind would fall out or the water would be full.

The popularity of the fortress and the dangers of accidents continued, and so was the electric kickboard and electric bike.

There were many products that exceeded the domestic speed limit. Not only speed, but two products that were found to be at risk of electric shock, and one that was found to be at risk of fire when charging came out.

Among car seats, products that detected 162 times the phthalate plasticizer, which is a harmful substance, were included among popular products, and the domestic standard value for electric cushions also prevented the surface temperature from exceeding 50 degrees due to burn hazard. However, products that went up to 111 degrees were also sold.

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fact, in the case of purchasing agents, these products are sold even though they are using domestic online shopping malls, not overseas shopping malls.

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Yes. It's a bit complicated, but this is not illegal distribution.

Because all the products you've seen so far have been selected from among the purchasing agency products that the National Institute of Technology and Standards has been able to access through Naver Shopping since April, the National Institute of Standards and Technology selects 11 items that are likely to be related to safety accidents. In the shopping mall, I recently researched 48 products with a lot of comments and high rankings. Of these, 23, which is only half the level, are said to have failed to meet the national safety standards.

However, if you do not look closely, it is difficult to distinguish it from ordinary online distribution.

Sometimes the seller asks for something like a customs clearance code, but there are also cases where only the social security number is required or there is no such procedure.

Even if the purchasing agent is sold in a Korean mall, it is the same as placing an order for an online mall seller to buy this overseas instead of one to one.

The seller shows overseas products in Korean. Exactly, "I'm in a foreign country right now. If you like it, can I buy it for you?" It's just about introducing online.

After seeing it, the consumer wants me in and puts an order one-on-one asking to act.

So even if it does not meet the domestic safety standards, if consumers choose, they should have it. In this sense, it is possible to bring in purchasing agents without country verification.

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That's right, but consumers aren't actually looking at distribution methods, but aren't they shopping for whether it meets domestic safety standards or not?

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Right. The problem is that it is difficult to distinguish.

Of course, even if it is an overseas product that does not meet the domestic standards, it is a defective product.

However, the problem is that, like the products that the Korea Institute of Technology and Standards found, this time, we cannot guarantee the level of safety that is normally expected in Korea, but are not filtered.

If you sell it on a commercial online mall, it's easy to guess and buy a certain standard, and it's easy to buy it, because the purchasing agent is distributed outside the standard network. Even though we advised sellers to stop purchasing and stop introducing them, we can't issue a recall order even if there is a safety problem with the strictly purchasing agent.

Recommendations were also issued this time.

Once the product has been investigated and identified as a problem, it is possible to check one by one through this page of the'Product Safety Information Center' where subtitles are now out. (▶ Product Safety Information Center)

However, in the future, the safety is that products that can be a little fat can continue to be distributed. In the end, it means that consumers should think more and choose more.

Purchasing agency is a way of increasing the consumer's choice responsibility.

The online mall is supposed to specify the purchasing agent product, so if you are ordering it to be brought in from overseas, you may need to take a closer look and select it.

[Ha Young-sun/Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, National Institute of Technology and Standards, Product Market Management Division: Brands such as products that are officially distributed in Korea rather than products that have risks that have not been verified, such as safety and awareness… It is recommended to purchase products centered on manufacturer information or business information.]