USFK Warns Military Retirees About Blackmarketing
For some reason I bet there is far more than one person involved in black-marketing, it appears this guy just made it super obvious:
A U.S. military retiree has been banned from bases in South Korea over allegations of buying excessive duty-free goods and black marketing, officials said Friday.
The move came nearly four months after U.S. Forces Korea, the main command on the peninsula, lifted monthly commissary purchase limits and eased other shopping restrictions intended to prevent such infractions.
The retiree, who lives in South Korea but was not otherwise identified, was banned Dec. 10 “from all U.S. military installations and facilities in (South Korea) for 10 years, for excessive purchasing of duty free goods and black marketing,” according to a post on the Camp Humphreys Facebook page.
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Why Would You Black Marketing Now That South Korea Has About 18 Costco With You A Purchase Some Of Those Same Items. I’m Just Saying , He Must Be Stuck On Stupid /G\ !!!
Granted I haven’t been in an AAFEEs establishment since 1980, but what was so much cheaper than E-Mart at the Commissary in Korea thsse days? Stateside, the Commissary was more expensive tban Safeway during the Carter Administration…
These days some items are more some items are less in the PX/Commissaries but you won’t be making the money they use to make black marketing. There are a few niche items that are still in demand. Anyway, should leave this stuff to the professionals, the PX and commissary Korean employees.
The only thing I would want to black market at the PX would be TVs and that becomes very obvious after the 3rd or 4th one (when you’re a 2 person empty nest household).
Booze will always be a hot commodity especially hard liquors as the prices are still drastically different. Wines could do well too though there wasn’t much of a wine scene in the ROK last time I was there.
Wines are gaining popularity and fairly inexpensive in Korea now.