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chumpchange
Joined: 24 Mar 2009
Location: Bucheon
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 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: Customs for your data? |
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Hey, I am hoping to make my way to South Korea sometime in the fall and with me I was hoping to bring a 500GB external HD I've filled up with "aquired" media (music, movies, etc).
My experience with international travel and customs is minimal, so I'm curious, would my "aquired" media files and the HD it's saved on be subject to confiscation or worse? would they even check it? |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:42 am Post subject: Re: Customs for your data? |
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| chumpchange wrote: |
Hey, I am hoping to make my way to South Korea sometime in the fall and with me I was hoping to bring a 500GB external HD I've filled up with "aquired" media (music, movies, etc).
My experience with international travel and customs is minimal, so I'm curious, would my "aquired" media files and the HD it's saved on be subject to confiscation or worse? would they even check it? |
Ive brought my personal media players ( which is basically a harddrive with a screen) on a bunch of international flights and no one checks or asks. Its full of downloaded movies,mp3s and what not.. I dont see this being any different than carrying a laptop on the plane.
You shouldnt have any problems. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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I've gone through customs with the following in my luggage/carryon:
2 external hard drives (3.25" size ones)
1 External CD rom
2 400-CD capacity Books filled with copied DVD's
Dozens of cables (USB cables, power adapters, etc... all for notebook, external drives, etc...)
All that happened was that customs went through my carry on because they wanted to check the dozens of cables in my carry on.
Did they care I had 2 CD books filled with burned DVD's? NO.
Did they care I had 2 external hard drives and an external DVD writer? NO.
I've heard stories of customs being a-holes and actually going through the data on your laptop computer but I've never seen it happen. |
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:57 am Post subject: |
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If anyone has ever had this happen anywhere, please post.
I've heard rumors, but never a first hand account. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Lots of travel and I have never been asked about the content of a HDD, CD/DVDs or had my laptop checked (other than power up to confirm that it was indeed a laptop - and that was at US security screening and NOT customs).
No worry mate.
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