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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 official 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.

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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.

Again, the agency said 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 be promoted, and Choi told me to give him the phone number.

It's a text conversation that may be suspected by Mr. Kim's request of the scribe and attempted a human resource request 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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