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South Korean police put out warning over fake pro sports jerseys

Authorities say U.S. Embassy is concerned over stateside sales
By Jon Rabiroff and Hwang Hae-rym, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, July 25, 2009

DONGDUCHEON, South Korea � U.S. troops who buy Korean-made counterfeit professional sports jerseys on the cheap and send them home for resale are in effect acting as middlemen in the illegal international distribution of the goods, authorities here say.

U.S. personnel are buying up jerseys bearing the names of players from the National Football League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball, and shipping or bringing the fakes home to the U.S. where they can be resold for upwards of 10 times their South Korean price, Gyeonggi Provincial Police said.

The problem has gotten so bad, police said, that the U.S. Embassy has gotten involved and is pressuring South Korean authorities to crack down on the counterfeit-jersey industry.

Three South Koreans were arrested recently for selling the knockoffs at a shopping mall near Camp Casey, and more than 4,000 jerseys were confiscated with an estimated market value of close to $500,000, police said.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63862

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BTW, it's so inspiring to read that "Korean authorities" and the US Embassy have suddenly discovered knockoffs in South Korea- this time, sports jerseys.

"I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling here"

[winterfall]

You know its legal to buy tools that will bend moped license plates? Letting you drive as fast as you want.