Imported skate and flounder sold as domestic products through public home-shopping outlet
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- Nearly 10,000 products made with imported skate and flounder were allegedly sold as domestic products through Korea Public Home Shopping.
- Sales of the products reached about 280 million won.
- Gunsan Coast Guard searched the home-shopping company in May over suspected violations of origin-labeling rules.
Imported skate and flounder were labeled as domestic products and sold through Korea Public Home Shopping, with sales totaling about 280 million won.
The products numbered close to 10,000, according to Choi Soo-jin, a People Power Party lawmaker on the National Assembly’s Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs and Startups Committee.
Gunsan Coast Guard searched Korea Public Home Shopping in May after identifying suspected violations of rules governing the labeling of product origins. The investigation concerns whether imported seafood was presented to consumers as Korean produce.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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