"Starbucks Tumbler for Half Price?"...Corporations and Businesses Are Being Busted.

It is no different from genuine Starbucks logos and packaging boxes.

Dulmi with nine people per day, including Mr. A, the chief of the 'forgery tumbler'

Imported non-pattern tumblers and parts separately and assembled in Korea

Fake it as a parallel import and promote "selling at half the price of genuine goods"

[Anchor]
If you have a Starbucks tumbler that is sold cheaply as a souvenir, you should suspect it.

A group of people who made 130,000 so-called "fake" tumblers and sold billions of won were caught.

Government offices and companies were also deceived by the promotion of half the price, but it is impossible to distinguish it from the original.

Reporter Park So-jung reports.

[Reporter]
A warehouse office in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do, and the Trademark Special Judicial Police have launched a search and seizure.

boxes piled up everywhere

This is where they used to make so-called fake Starbucks tumblers.

Equally engrave Starbucks logo with laser device, including instructions and stickers in packaging box,

It's no different from the original.

Nine members of the group, including the 53-year-old man A, who made the counterfeit product, were caught in a police crackdown.

They separately imported and assembled parts such as plain tumblers, lids, and rubber pads from China and other countries that had nothing written on them.

A non-official importer has promoted that it is sold at half the price of the original product by deceiving it as a parallel import product that is brought in to another distribution channel.
There were many places that were ordered as souvenirs by government offices, companies, and private organizations that were deceived like
.

Fake Starbucks tumblers made for three years from 2021 have earned a whopping 130,000 and 2.4 billion won in criminal profits.

[Ji-Woon Gong / Patent Office Industrial Property Protection Cooperation Bureau: It was not easy to detect because it avoided crackdown at the customs level by importing general goods without any trademarks and secondarily manufactured counterfeit goods by imprinting and printing trademarks.]

The trademark police booked nine people without detention and handed them over to the prosecution.

The Korean Intellectual Property Office emphasized that it is safe to live in a formal store because the logo is sophisticated and it is difficult to distinguish between real and fake.

At the same time, the government plans to strengthen its ability to respond to new crimes as the method of avoiding crackdowns by sharing information among offenders is evolving.

I'm Park Sojung of YTN.

Reporter for filming
: Kwon Minho
Video editing: Lee Jae-eun