▶ [Sell to the end ①] Kim, General Manager of Korea Customs Service

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Until the end of the SBS exploration report, we will continue with the stories of some customs officials who were stained with corruption following yesterday (19th). Yesterday, I was informed that people who had to keep the gates of the border received the money and opened the gate. Let's look into the allegations that it sold.

First is a reporter Park.

<Reporter>

It is an Internet open market selling only genuine brands.

Several companies mainly sell luxury goods of foreign brands.

Here is a promotional phrase from the luxury watch shop.

It emphasizes the lowest price and sells `` parallel import goods through formal customs clearance. ''

Only 1,700 regular members once reached.

The company has also registered with another open market, reassuring consumers that it is an absolute genuine product that has been officially imported and cleared by customs.

I tried tracking the seller.

I looked up the name of the mail order carrier and the representative is Mr. Kim.

This is the elder sister of the customs officer Kim, who has various doubts about the expedition of sex trafficking.

An industry official said Mr. Kim borrowed his sister's name to do an Internet sales business.

In fact, Kim is the president of the company.

[Company official: I've been working as a side job since 2010. Receiving goods from the Chinese side and selling them on the Internet. I want you to lend me some business.

In fact, if you look at Mr. Kim's account history that the panda team got to the end, there are frequent records of exchanges with importers.

It's also a problem for the current public servants to work side-by-side, but some of the luxury goods that were sold, unlike public relations, were also known as counterparts.

I checked the company's purchases and import invoices from a Chinese factory.

The watch and open market bought for about 140,000 won in China promoted as genuine and sold for about 350,000 won.

[Company official: Armani, Burberry, did it in mid 2013. Tag Heuer (Watch).]

One of the corners of this watch is a testimony from an industry official.

[Company officials: (Are you?) Yes. It's a Chinese factory. Introduced customer there and comes back from factory… .]

In addition to the watch, the reporter secured the sneakers that Mr. Kim had kept and entrusted his feelings.

[Kwak Ji-won / Sneakers Differentiator (YouTube Coby Jeans) This product is a fake. It was actually a popular product in the past two or three years ago. The shape and pattern of the mesh material is different from the genuine one.]

Suspicions were raised that the counterfeit goods would have been brought in by customs officials without proper customs clearance.

[Company official: Customs (employees) to send in time to work. Except when the person worked his own (in a checkup). If you don't have him, tell people you know and people below you. ]

Consumers are unlikely to be on the odds, even with this record, as there is a record of formal clearance.

This may be why it was promoted, emphasizing the phrase that the business went through customs clearance.

[Open Market official: I haven't done that yet… I haven't sold anything. (Do you think it's genuine?) For some reason. Usually the customs clearance process itself. I can't come in on the corner.]

There was no guilt for customs officials who were supposed to block the counter, selling the counter as genuine.

[Let's do it a lot. (ㅎㅎㅎ ㅎㅎㅎ.) Don't get caught like Park Geun-hye. (Like Myung-bak)]

Opening customs will cloud the distribution market, and the damage will be left to consumers.

(Video coverage: Cho Chang-hyun, Video editing: Hyung-hee, VJ: Kim Jun-ho, CG: Kim Min-young)

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▶ [Sold to end ②] Discussing delivery and sales business? Quarantine target is also reported

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This corruption of the Korea Customs Service is not upside down. To the end, the panda team had a story with a customs officer in Korea when a senior customs official at the Korea Customs Service headed for China.

In China, I discussed how to bring mushrooms to Korea, sell them, and make money with them.

<Reporter>

The secretary-general of Korea was a customs officer at the Consulate General in Shanghai in 2015.

When I was in Shanghai, I sent a text message with a picture to Kim, a junior official at Incheon Customs.

This is about Chinese mushrooms.

[Chief Clerk / Former Shanghai Consulate Customs Office: Density is higher than Portobello mushroom and Matsutake.]

Kim's response followed.

[Kim, General / Customs Staff: The quality is good because it is your choice. I need to make money by selling this mushroom in Korea]

We also share opinions on how to distribute mushrooms in Korea.

When Kim asks where he should deliver, Choi said the goal is to deliver meat in the short run and mart in the long run.

Explain that the mushroom supplier is Chinese and the unit price can be adjusted.

Choi actually sent a sample of mushrooms to Korea, but the mushrooms were quarantined but did not report.

They also talked about the business of getting used smartphones in Korea and reselling them in Southeast Asia.

To the end, the panda team finished working in Shanghai and met with a junior clerk who worked domestically.

Secretary Choi explained that the mushroom-related conversation was a public affair with the request of a Chinese company when he worked in Shanghai.

[Chief Clerk / Former Shanghai Consulate Customs: China's Exporter. Korea was trying to enter once, I wanted to help it now… ]

However, this is not found in the scope of customs duties on the Korea Customs Service homepage.

Nor was it through an official work channel.

The agency also claimed that it was a wide range of consular affairs, and explained that it was a marketability survey to ask subordinates.

[Chief Clerk / Former Shanghai Consulate Customs: This is not a customs duty. I do it though. In the end, it is the consulate's role to promote exchange between Korea and China. ]

The texts and explanations of the secretariat were shown to experts and former customs officers, and their opinions were heard.

[Former Customs Officer: To do this, you have to send it by official letter. Personally, it's something that takes a bit of contact with SNS.]

[Professor, Department of Taxation, Department of Taxation, Gangnam University: If you want to introduce a good product, I think it is a fair and transparent process through a normal, public route, not through a private route.]

There is another suspicious situation.

On the day Choi sent a sample of mushrooms to Korea, Kim said that there was a Human Resources Committee and would like to get promoted.

It's a text conversation that Kim suspects has been asked by Choi to try to get a greeting in return.

Choi denied it was not asking for personnel.

[Chief Clerk / Former Shanghai Consulate Customs: I'm asking you to take a good look. I asked for it. (Do you think it might be a bit inappropriate from the point of view of the general public?) Humanly… A little bit of it all. If you want to go somewhere please accept it and not a little bit?]

Kim asked whether he was promoted from personnel at the time, but the Korea Customs Service did not answer because of personal information.

(Video coverage: Cho Chang-hyun, Video editing: Jong-woo Kim, CG: Hyun-jung Jung)

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