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amberflannery
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: taken by customs- can i get it back? |
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so i had my dad send me a halloween costume and customs opened it and took it. left no notice- just sent the package half sealed with some mail in from him. wtf???? can they just take and not say anything about it? its a halloween costume- not a threat to f-in korean life. 
is there any way to find out if they have it and get it back??? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: Re: taken by customs- can i get it back? |
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| amberflannery wrote: |
| can they just take and not say anything about it? its a halloween costume- not a threat to f-in korean life. |
Depends what kind of costume it is. I've had DVDs confiscated for being detrimental to Korea (the original Japanese Ring trilogy... deemed too graphic for Korean sensibilities they said)
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| is there any way to find out if they have it and get it back??? |
The obvious answer is of course to call Customs and ask. |
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amberflannery
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| its just a german beer waitress and a petticoat. i called but got some korean recording- maybe they're closed. proly. i'm mostly just irritated they left no notice. just took it. no explanation. |
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okokok
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Next time, put a Korean name on the package and not your own, and you'll have no problems. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Probably thought it was some sort of kinky call-girl outfit...  |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| Probably thought it was some sort of kinky call-girl outfit... |
Yup... can't have foreigners 'getting in on the action' unless they invest W50,000,000 in a double barber pole.  |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| amberflannery wrote: |
| its just a german beer waitress and a petticoat. |
Well there you go. A petticoat. Slag. |
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pavement burns
Joined: 24 Sep 2006
Location: Pocheon, Kyonggido Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: How's tokki? |
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| Maybe they set the dogs on it? Maybe it was crawling with yeast? |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Halloween costumes can be used for robbing banks. And they are already aware at foreigner frustrations at not being allowed mnay bank priviliges (including but not limited to: controlling your own money). It's preemption at work here.  |
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tigerbluekitty
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Customs stole ALL my six half pound bags of beef jerky! I never got that back.
Idiot bastards, I'm sure they wolfed it down themselves!!! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| amberflannery wrote: |
| its just a german beer waitress and a petticoat. i called but got some korean recording- maybe they're closed. proly. i'm mostly just irritated they left no notice. just took it. no explanation. |
Yeah, Korea has rules again "sex toys". The rules are ostensibly there to protect youths.
A blogger has reprinted a Korean customs page regarding the things that were banned, including something called a "goblin condom". Whatever the hell that is. The english is massively bad and the government page was taken down. Probably because they were getting so many hits for it and realized it was silly.
http://tinyurl.com/yu5xuf
Evil grossness: Some Korean customs guy is probably masturbating with your petticoat right now. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| tigerbluekitty wrote: |
| Customs stole ALL my six half pound bags of beef jerky! I never got that back. |
Because it is a meat product, it may have been because of how it was packaged. My dad has a vacuum-sealer, so all the venison sausage and pepperettes he sends are sealed like space food. No problems. Before the vacuum sealed care packages, they regularly took stuff cling-wrapped and in baggies. |
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traxxe
Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Does customs insepct every box?
So much for me shipping ephedra here I guess. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Somewhere out there, a luscious, beefy customs adjossi is frolicking in his new german peasant dress.
If that doesn't warm the cackles of your heart, I don't know what will. |
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thatwhitegirl
Joined: 31 Jan 2007
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know the website for a list of things that Korean customs guys will take? I've been looking, but I can't seem to find one. |
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