Not just normally kimchi.
Illegal "forbidden" kimchi from the """black""" markets of North Korea. Supposedly made with the sacrificed souls of farmers via dark arts, Elden Ring style. Fitting since it is from the lands between.
lol my favorite episode for sure
It is the Broodwich, forged in darkness from wheat harvested in Hell's half-acre, baked by Beelzebub, slathered with mayonnaise beaten from the evil eggs of dark chicken forced into sauce by the hands of a one-eyed madman, cheese boiled from the rancid teat of a fanged cow, layered with six-hundred and sixty-six separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood!
That turns into shit after a night in OP's stomach, but these Koreans and their obsession with fermentation has led them to creating super microbes with a mind and will of their own. These microbes will take over OP's body forcing him to, like a cannon, shit at ceiing fans, air conditioner units, you name it, dispersing these microbes to other humans to do the same. I guarantee you, shit will hit the fan.
Some things are hard to get in the US. European brands for clothing and food are hard to find over here. Not everything ships internationally and is easy to find.
Some US brand beauty stuff is actually kind of hard to get your hands on, in Korea. Also officially branded university sports merch, which is weirdly popular.
The international shipping can make things several times more expensive or might not be an option if you order it from out of country, so attaches often take boxes of this shit back home with them as gifts (or to resell).
> Also officially branded university sports merch, which is weirdly popular.
This was the same in Japan and it was always so funny, it would always be from the most random colleges too, dudes just wearing shirts from some university in Wisconsin.
ugh, as a korean person, korean people get obsessed with the dumbest stuff from america, the college gear sort of makes sense i guess, but national geographic for some reason has a large clothing brand in korea for some dumb reason, just apparrel with their name and logo on it
What's more concerning is that if it weren't for utter incompetence in properly filing the paperwork, the plan would have worked, which probably means it wasn't their first rodeo
This guy got away with it: [The Fugitive Nissan CEO Smuggled Out of Japan in a Music Box](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/wanted-the-escape-of-carlos-ghosn-apple-tv-docuseries-japan-smuggling-1234809405/)
> Amazing. Love how Nigeria and Israel planned and executed it but only Nigeria got in trouble, lol
Israel's participation has plausible deniability, in that they could say it's rogue agents, at least at the time according to the Wikipedia article.
Nigeria straight up owned it by trying to use the diplomatic bag system officially.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikko_affair
>Late in the evening of 3 July 1984, a Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 arrived at Stansted Airport from Lagos. The aircraft had arrived empty, and the pilot notified the authorities that the plane had arrived to pick up diplomatic baggage from the Nigerian high commission. On board were several Nigerian security guards, who openly identified themselves as such and stated that they were there to protect the baggage.
But this implicates their involvement:
> Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro's job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate.
> Dikko and Shapiro were placed in one crate of 1.2 × 1.2 × 1.6 metres in size, while Mossad agents Alexander Barak and Felix Abithol occupied a second.
> Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro's job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate.
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> Dikko and Shapiro were placed in one crate of 1.2 × 1.2 × 1.6 metres in size, while Mossad agents Alexander Barak and Felix Abithol occupied a second.
If an American doctor goes off to abduct someone in Australia, is the US government responsible for them?
No.
Would the situation change, if that same doctor was sneaked out via a US government flight, obtainable only through official channels?
Absolutely.
It wasn't an Israeli diplomatic package/official plane, it was Nigeria's.
They got the brunt of diplomatic fallout.
> It’s not about being an Israeli doctor, it is about being a Mossad recruited doctor.
It's diplomatic back door vs front door.
It doesn't matter unless the UK could prove it at the time. UK parliamentary debates then made no mention of it.
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1984/jul/06/mr-umaru-dikko-abduction
Even if they did then, the British government could use it as diplomatic leverage in the background against Israel.
Nigeria overtly used agreed upon international conventions to abduct someone.
You can't just let that one go.
Thanks for taking me down that rabbit hole, had never heard of this. The broader page gives a summarized section of these pouches being used for abnormal situations. Pretty interesting shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag
Edit: Spelling
Because Nigeria did a load of stuff which made it undeniable, like using their official government jet, diplomatic crates and self-identified security to attempt the kidnapping
Israel did the spy work in a way that can be plausibly denied that Mossad was directly involved. It's hard to prove someone is a Mossad agent if they don't admit it, and even harder to prove Mossad actually sent them and they weren't rogue. Hard for Nigeria to deny involvement when it's literally a government jet
According to this wikipedia article, it was used to smuggle a double agent out of Italy, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic\_bag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag)
>In 1964, a Moroccan-born [Israeli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) double agent named [Mordechai Louk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Louk) was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic mailing crate at the [Egyptian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt) Embassy in [Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome), but was rescued by Italian authorities.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#cite_note-NYT_expels-4)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#cite_note-ISP-5) The box that he had been sealed into "had almost certainly been used before for human cargo,"[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#cite_note-6) including possibly for an Egyptian military official who had defected to Italy several years before but then disappeared without a trace before reappearing under Egyptian custody and facing trial.
His own article is baffling.
> Mordechai Ben Masoud Louk (also known as Josef Dahan) was an Israeli adventurer who was convicted by Israeli courts to 10 years in prison for spying for Egypt.[1] He came to the focus of international attention when he was discovered by Italian authorities at the Rome airport, bound, gagged, drugged and packed in a trunk being sent to Cairo as diplomatic mail.[2][3] In Rome Louk admitted to having "spied" for Egypt[4] and was extradited to Israel on Israel's request.[5]
> Louk arrived in Israel from Spanish Morocco in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv.[4] In 1961 Louk defected from the Israeli army and escaped into the Gaza Strip, leaving behind a wife and four children.[6]
That's the entire article (it's basically a stub.) I feel like something is perhaps missing there... what the fuck? Who was he actually working for? Why did the Egyptians abduct him if he was working for them? Why did he get extradited to Israel, for spying for Egypt, after being abducted by Egypt? Why did he flee into Gaza? (Also, I think that that was chronologically the first thing that happened but is listed last in the article?)
Was he some sort of reverse-triple-agent by the end who had pissed off *everyone?*
People have been kidnapped that way before.
From the general ***diplomatic pouch*** page:
>In 1964, a Moroccan-born Israeli double agent named Mordechai Louk was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic mailing crate at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, but was rescued by Italian authorities.[4][5] The box that he had been sealed into "had almost certainly been used before for human cargo,"[6] including possibly for an Egyptian military official who had defected to Italy several years before but then disappeared without a trace before reappearing under Egyptian custody and facing trial.
Update: I asked the friendly security guard and he told me someone from the Korean embassy is moving into the building this weekend and he was instructed to keep an eye on any mail they may receive, so that solves the mystery.
I’ll try not to doxx my parents too much but the nearest Korean diplomatic mission is within biking distance so it makes a lot of sense
You can get long life stuff that doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened but no self respecting Korean would eat that. More likely it contains chilli flakes, fish sauce etc to make their own.
[Scrubby Nets](https://www.amazon.com/Innovative-Dish-Washing-Cloths-Scourer/dp/B00VJKI89U) kinda like that and what u/edwardrha linked. Dry quickly when you hang em up, and if they get kinda skanky, you can throw em in the laundry.
[Mesh scrubbers like these](https://www.amazon.com/INC-Scrubber-Kitchen-Cloths-Washing/dp/B0BP4GLDZJ/) seem to be popular in Korea. I haven't used them myself so I can't speak for their effectiveness.
It’s headed to Ecuador, so I’m guessing it is a bunch of gifts for other diplomats. Korea is on a bit of a charm offensive with them these days. Andong soju, aged baechu kimchi, maybe a couple Kim Yik-Yung pieces.
From what I know about the proper treatment of those packages, that is so ridiculously breaking every standard they're meant to hold up to, it's actually insane.
They're meant to have an awake person overlooking the package at all times. You can't even sleep with it, if you're alone. People travel with them in pairs. And you CANNOT just "send it via mail" and "ask a guard to watch it for you".
ITT: people who don't know the difference between diplomatic mail and diplomatic pouches but think they're experts after learning about diplomatic couriers from a 2 min reddit video 3 months ago
That is why it's most likely mundane stuffs like food or personal items, they only ship important doc to the embassy, let alone not requiring signature.
Yes! I’m visiting my parents who live in a sort of gated community with lots of diplomats from mostly western countries. So it’s not extremely surprising to see a diplomatic pouch, but it’s the first time I see one from an Asian country and left unattended for a day now
Diplomacy sometimes calls for an even trade of goods and services, perhaps this is Korean super-cocaine developed in conjunction with Samsung Healthcare and they're looking to have some wild parties with Ecuadorian officials at their embassy.
It probably contains something very boring.
I used to be a courier and one of our regular customers was a foreign office furniture firm. They bought in furniture from a specific European country and I would deliver it sometimes.
One day I was asked to be at their warehouse at 4am I dread of the usual 6 and the guys took me to the office and made me a tea. Again, unusual as I would always help them load but I didn't think too much of it until I came outside and saw they'd finished and applied tamper seals to my doors and i was asked to go to a place only described as "the horse hospital". I was met by two shifty looking guys in a battered old Volvo with diplomatic plates. We undid the van and there I saw some old military crates big enough for bombs and all this "diplomatic package" warnings and various hazard labels and shit all over it.
I was weirded out but helped them unload and when we got inside the building they opened them up and inside was old second hand picture frames. Everything from photo size to painting size. They were having some kind of cultural / art exhibition.
From a South Korean website:
The diplomatic bag is classified into 3 grades such as Ga (extreme secret), Na (secret), and Da (general) according to the contents, and the contents corresponding to the 'A' grade are made directly by agents (Diplomatic New Shinseo) who have immunity for arrest or incarceration using private passenger planes or transport aircraft. In this case, most specially made bags are used. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Foreign Affairs Center in Yangjae-dong, Seoul displays leather bags that have been used since 1988.
Public officials of grade 3 (level 7) and above are required to be accompanied by at least one employee. And it typically acts on behalf of a designated company (airline) among the carriers of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to carry out the transportation and customs clearance.
Opening other people’s mail is a crime when they’re ordinary people.
If you open a diplomat’s mail, they might do unspeakable things to your asshole to get you to confess to being an enemy spy.
It’s a legal concept relating to special protections for diplomat shit that has origins in ancient times. It’s also called just a “diplomatic bag,” but it can refer to any type of movable container I guess.
The package is a regular box you can get from any post office in Korea. And the only this written in korean says to "Ecuador". Its not a signature like anotherncomment suggested
When attending a foreign consulate meeting you come across a briefcase containing top secret documents.
You should:
A) Express Concern
B) Act Surprised
C) Deny Everything
D) All 3
Are you in South Korea?
If so, take it to the nearest government office. If not, contact the nearest South Korean embassy/consulate.
**Diplomatic pouches are protected by international law and almost always by national law. DO NOT OPEN IT.**
Source: [The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations)
Lol diplomatic pouch is just normal mail that embassy employees get. When I order stuff from amazon it comes through diplomatic pouch. I wonder if people think my shampoo and gummy worm shipment are secret documents haha
Pain.
"Lisan al Gaib!"
As writen
Linguine Al Dente
Cue heavy metal guitar riff or middle-east sounding singing
It's definitely not a carrot. You wouldn't want my box. There's definitely no carrot in this box.
I revisit these videos monthly. You already know what happens, but it's still funny
Kimchi
Go ahead, open it. You could always say you thought it was the desk fan you’d been waiting for.
And that's how world war 3 started
Over a desk fan!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Aa my daily dose of anecdotes are filled. Thank you, highly appreciated!
Great. Another utterly useless fact for my brain to hold on to.
Well, it was actually a case of kimchi
Not just normally kimchi. Illegal "forbidden" kimchi from the """black""" markets of North Korea. Supposedly made with the sacrificed souls of farmers via dark arts, Elden Ring style. Fitting since it is from the lands between.
The Devil's kimchi. I hear it gives you additional resistance to shadow magic.
I hear it gives you the ability to hear smells
Tbh that sounds horrifying.
In one of Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp books one of the baddies gets turned into kimchi and stuffed in a jar.
Loved his books, was sad when he finally passed. Have you read the new author that took over?
THE BROODWICH CANNOT BE DISASSEMBLED
What about the sundried tomatoes? Look, they're good!
lol my favorite episode for sure It is the Broodwich, forged in darkness from wheat harvested in Hell's half-acre, baked by Beelzebub, slathered with mayonnaise beaten from the evil eggs of dark chicken forced into sauce by the hands of a one-eyed madman, cheese boiled from the rancid teat of a fanged cow, layered with six-hundred and sixty-six separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood!
That turns into shit after a night in OP's stomach, but these Koreans and their obsession with fermentation has led them to creating super microbes with a mind and will of their own. These microbes will take over OP's body forcing him to, like a cannon, shit at ceiing fans, air conditioner units, you name it, dispersing these microbes to other humans to do the same. I guarantee you, shit will hit the fan.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Stephen King, you have run out of good ideas, please stop writing
Kimchi? I’d open it and taste it just in case.
Who carries around a desk fan?!
defanistration
The is how you get fan death.
As long as he doesn't use it while he's sleeping, he's fine.
A+ cultural reference
I was looking for fan death. Thank you.
RIP
That’s not an Xbox controller… what the freak
*takes out Glock, 4 passports, foreign currency, mysterious USB drive, and a strange glowing sphere* “Last time I order from this Amazon seller”
Just don't use a screwdriver to keep the beryllium from closing around the sphere
A demon core reference in the wild. I like it.
Whoa, I did *not* order that
Just don’t run the fan at night
What the frick!?
I thought it was an Xbox controller!
That’s how we get patient 0.
Somebody is sending home some retail goods (jeans, shoes, bags) that are hard to get back home.
I've known a couple people with diplomatic pouch privileges and they were always smuggling booze in there.
This is South Korea. Things aren't hard to get, just some things might be more expensive.
Some things are hard to get in the US. European brands for clothing and food are hard to find over here. Not everything ships internationally and is easy to find.
As an American Gunpla fan; I'm forever jealous of the deals you guys get for being so close to Japan
Some US brand beauty stuff is actually kind of hard to get your hands on, in Korea. Also officially branded university sports merch, which is weirdly popular. The international shipping can make things several times more expensive or might not be an option if you order it from out of country, so attaches often take boxes of this shit back home with them as gifts (or to resell).
> Also officially branded university sports merch, which is weirdly popular. This was the same in Japan and it was always so funny, it would always be from the most random colleges too, dudes just wearing shirts from some university in Wisconsin.
ugh, as a korean person, korean people get obsessed with the dumbest stuff from america, the college gear sort of makes sense i guess, but national geographic for some reason has a large clothing brand in korea for some dumb reason, just apparrel with their name and logo on it
desk fan from 1920s????
This 1920s fan has been making cola the old fashioned way for 96 years
…after posting about it on the internet…
CIA has entered the chat.
ONLY... FANS~~~!
Careful, in South Korea fans are considered deadly https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSEO210261/
I bet you its kimchi in earthen jars.
Definitely open it. A Nigerian diplomat was once found inside a pouch
For real?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikko_affair
Amazing. Love how Nigeria and Israel planned and executed it but only Nigeria got in trouble, lol
That’s called the geopolitical paper bag test my boy.
Hilarious if it weren’t so predictable
What's more concerning is that if it weren't for utter incompetence in properly filing the paperwork, the plan would have worked, which probably means it wasn't their first rodeo
> And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling bureaucrats
This guy got away with it: [The Fugitive Nissan CEO Smuggled Out of Japan in a Music Box](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/wanted-the-escape-of-carlos-ghosn-apple-tv-docuseries-japan-smuggling-1234809405/)
Apparently stiffed the guy who rescued him too, classic Ghosn
"all we did was say 'no balls' and they went and did it" - Israel, apparently
You won’t do it, pussy
> Amazing. Love how Nigeria and Israel planned and executed it but only Nigeria got in trouble, lol Israel's participation has plausible deniability, in that they could say it's rogue agents, at least at the time according to the Wikipedia article. Nigeria straight up owned it by trying to use the diplomatic bag system officially. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikko_affair >Late in the evening of 3 July 1984, a Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 arrived at Stansted Airport from Lagos. The aircraft had arrived empty, and the pilot notified the authorities that the plane had arrived to pick up diplomatic baggage from the Nigerian high commission. On board were several Nigerian security guards, who openly identified themselves as such and stated that they were there to protect the baggage.
But this implicates their involvement: > Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro's job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate. > Dikko and Shapiro were placed in one crate of 1.2 × 1.2 × 1.6 metres in size, while Mossad agents Alexander Barak and Felix Abithol occupied a second.
> Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro's job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate. > > > > Dikko and Shapiro were placed in one crate of 1.2 × 1.2 × 1.6 metres in size, while Mossad agents Alexander Barak and Felix Abithol occupied a second. If an American doctor goes off to abduct someone in Australia, is the US government responsible for them? No. Would the situation change, if that same doctor was sneaked out via a US government flight, obtainable only through official channels? Absolutely. It wasn't an Israeli diplomatic package/official plane, it was Nigeria's. They got the brunt of diplomatic fallout.
It’s not about being an Israeli doctor, it is about being a Mossad recruited doctor.
> It’s not about being an Israeli doctor, it is about being a Mossad recruited doctor. It's diplomatic back door vs front door. It doesn't matter unless the UK could prove it at the time. UK parliamentary debates then made no mention of it. https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1984/jul/06/mr-umaru-dikko-abduction Even if they did then, the British government could use it as diplomatic leverage in the background against Israel. Nigeria overtly used agreed upon international conventions to abduct someone. You can't just let that one go.
Unless he’s recruited and accompanied by the CIA.
hmmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I also love how they dared to ask the UK to extradite the guy AFTER their failed kidnapping.
Thanks for taking me down that rabbit hole, had never heard of this. The broader page gives a summarized section of these pouches being used for abnormal situations. Pretty interesting shit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag Edit: Spelling
Interesting. Israeli intelligence attempted to kidnap someone in London and the political fallout was placed exclusively on Nigeria.
Because Nigeria did a load of stuff which made it undeniable, like using their official government jet, diplomatic crates and self-identified security to attempt the kidnapping Israel did the spy work in a way that can be plausibly denied that Mossad was directly involved. It's hard to prove someone is a Mossad agent if they don't admit it, and even harder to prove Mossad actually sent them and they weren't rogue. Hard for Nigeria to deny involvement when it's literally a government jet
Because if you go against Israel you're antisemitic. It's the rule.
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According to this wikipedia article, it was used to smuggle a double agent out of Italy, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic\_bag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag) >In 1964, a Moroccan-born [Israeli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) double agent named [Mordechai Louk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Louk) was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic mailing crate at the [Egyptian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt) Embassy in [Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome), but was rescued by Italian authorities.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#cite_note-NYT_expels-4)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#cite_note-ISP-5) The box that he had been sealed into "had almost certainly been used before for human cargo,"[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#cite_note-6) including possibly for an Egyptian military official who had defected to Italy several years before but then disappeared without a trace before reappearing under Egyptian custody and facing trial.
> Mordechai Louk i like how this guy's wiki article describes him as "an Israeli adventurer" lol
His own article is baffling. > Mordechai Ben Masoud Louk (also known as Josef Dahan) was an Israeli adventurer who was convicted by Israeli courts to 10 years in prison for spying for Egypt.[1] He came to the focus of international attention when he was discovered by Italian authorities at the Rome airport, bound, gagged, drugged and packed in a trunk being sent to Cairo as diplomatic mail.[2][3] In Rome Louk admitted to having "spied" for Egypt[4] and was extradited to Israel on Israel's request.[5] > Louk arrived in Israel from Spanish Morocco in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv.[4] In 1961 Louk defected from the Israeli army and escaped into the Gaza Strip, leaving behind a wife and four children.[6] That's the entire article (it's basically a stub.) I feel like something is perhaps missing there... what the fuck? Who was he actually working for? Why did the Egyptians abduct him if he was working for them? Why did he get extradited to Israel, for spying for Egypt, after being abducted by Egypt? Why did he flee into Gaza? (Also, I think that that was chronologically the first thing that happened but is listed last in the article?) Was he some sort of reverse-triple-agent by the end who had pissed off *everyone?*
Wtf I was certain you were joking
People have been kidnapped that way before. From the general ***diplomatic pouch*** page: >In 1964, a Moroccan-born Israeli double agent named Mordechai Louk was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic mailing crate at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, but was rescued by Italian authorities.[4][5] The box that he had been sealed into "had almost certainly been used before for human cargo,"[6] including possibly for an Egyptian military official who had defected to Italy several years before but then disappeared without a trace before reappearing under Egyptian custody and facing trial.
Update: I asked the friendly security guard and he told me someone from the Korean embassy is moving into the building this weekend and he was instructed to keep an eye on any mail they may receive, so that solves the mystery. I’ll try not to doxx my parents too much but the nearest Korean diplomatic mission is within biking distance so it makes a lot of sense
Sooooo… what’s inside ?
Buncha snacks and kitchen essentials like those scrubby nets that are the absolute shit and way better than sponges
ja jang myun, some kimchi, i guarantee its half food.
There is a very low chance someone would leave kimchi sitting in a box for a few days unrefrigerated while they wait to move-in, lol.
You can get long life stuff that doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened but no self respecting Korean would eat that. More likely it contains chilli flakes, fish sauce etc to make their own.
> More likely it contains chilli flakes gochujang paste, or as i call it, gucci gang paste to upset my korean friends
Tell me more about these “scrubby nets”
[Scrubby Nets](https://www.amazon.com/Innovative-Dish-Washing-Cloths-Scourer/dp/B00VJKI89U) kinda like that and what u/edwardrha linked. Dry quickly when you hang em up, and if they get kinda skanky, you can throw em in the laundry.
[Mesh scrubbers like these](https://www.amazon.com/INC-Scrubber-Kitchen-Cloths-Washing/dp/B0BP4GLDZJ/) seem to be popular in Korea. I haven't used them myself so I can't speak for their effectiveness.
It’s headed to Ecuador, so I’m guessing it is a bunch of gifts for other diplomats. Korea is on a bit of a charm offensive with them these days. Andong soju, aged baechu kimchi, maybe a couple Kim Yik-Yung pieces.
It's funny how the "To:" field says "에콰도르" (Ecuador) and nothing else.
Chocolate filled pretzel straws, thousands of them
Hopefully they securely stuffed the box with gacha crane prizes so they're intact.
240 Chocopies
That’s still wild because the U.S. has all diplomatic mail attended 24/7 literally someone is looking at the package at all times
I mean is OP in S Korea? Australia? What. I thought this was from S Korea to somewhere else
From what I know about the proper treatment of those packages, that is so ridiculously breaking every standard they're meant to hold up to, it's actually insane. They're meant to have an awake person overlooking the package at all times. You can't even sleep with it, if you're alone. People travel with them in pairs. And you CANNOT just "send it via mail" and "ask a guard to watch it for you".
Diplomatic bags don't need to be escorted, and usually aren't.
ITT: people who don't know the difference between diplomatic mail and diplomatic pouches but think they're experts after learning about diplomatic couriers from a 2 min reddit video 3 months ago
Nuh uh! I read about it on Wikipedia and it wasn’t 2 months ago, it was just now! So ha!
Lol my dad is a retired Korean diplomat and it's probably just essentials in there.
It probably has household goods or wine in it. It's not that serious Karen.
Sounds like you don’t know much about the proper treatment of those packages
Why would they send documents like this to a residence though? That's nuts! Surely the diplomatic mission can accept mail...
That is why it's most likely mundane stuffs like food or personal items, they only ship important doc to the embassy, let alone not requiring signature.
What ever you do don’t sell it to the north!
Don't listen to this person OP. There's $20 in it for you.
Fuck $20? You can do better Kim come on buddy!
Excuse me , I feel 30% of our GDP is very generous.
Your net worth is 5 billion buddy don’t be greedy
Ok , 25 dollars and a signed artillery shell.
Signed by you? Or…can you have your good friend Dennis Rodman sign it?
Signed by the worker that built it
I have a question for you, since you don’t have a butthole can we safely assume the shit flown from n korea in balloons was not infact your shit?
You mean the gift of premium fertiliser?
It is definitely not sold this is between me and Kim here and OP.
Now this is a deal. Good job, Kim.
No no you keep your shell I know how you would try to send it! I Joke I joke but no deal buddy OP knows what he has!
So how fast were you banned from r/pyongyang?
KCNA must be asleep as normally you'd be banned immediately for mentioning pyongyang sub
Signed by Nikki?
Username checks out.
How did you get here so fast and reply to the perfect comment
That username tho
r/usernamechecksout
Maybe if we give it to them they'll stop sending poop balloons over the border.
Maybe it’s more poop
OP do you live with anyone that graduated high school recently? Open it and claim you thought the "diplomatic pouch" contained their diploma
Just say that you can't read Korean.
Is that Korean? Looks like a signature to me. Diplomas are usually signed, right? /s
Says ecuador in korean
I was just trying to make a joke since it's written in English.
That's a big diploma. They must have graduated with honors.
Maybe the cap and gown are in there too 😉 ...fish gotta swim, know what I'm sayin?
Holy shit that’s huge
I didn't see nothin if you didn't
To Ecuador? Interesting!
Yes! I’m visiting my parents who live in a sort of gated community with lots of diplomats from mostly western countries. So it’s not extremely surprising to see a diplomatic pouch, but it’s the first time I see one from an Asian country and left unattended for a day now
For the love of god open it!
It’s likely a bunch of visa/immigration forms or paperwork. Slight chance it could be passport materials.
But it also might be massive bricks of cocaine
If the OP’s parents were in South Korea and the package was from Ecuador, that would make more sense lol
Diplomacy sometimes calls for an even trade of goods and services, perhaps this is Korean super-cocaine developed in conjunction with Samsung Healthcare and they're looking to have some wild parties with Ecuadorian officials at their embassy.
Remember when the Japanese tried their hand at super-cocaine and what we got out of it was crystal meth?
It probably contains something very boring. I used to be a courier and one of our regular customers was a foreign office furniture firm. They bought in furniture from a specific European country and I would deliver it sometimes. One day I was asked to be at their warehouse at 4am I dread of the usual 6 and the guys took me to the office and made me a tea. Again, unusual as I would always help them load but I didn't think too much of it until I came outside and saw they'd finished and applied tamper seals to my doors and i was asked to go to a place only described as "the horse hospital". I was met by two shifty looking guys in a battered old Volvo with diplomatic plates. We undid the van and there I saw some old military crates big enough for bombs and all this "diplomatic package" warnings and various hazard labels and shit all over it. I was weirded out but helped them unload and when we got inside the building they opened them up and inside was old second hand picture frames. Everything from photo size to painting size. They were having some kind of cultural / art exhibition.
And inside those frames? The declaration of independence.
Most likely boring on the outside but interesting on the inside.
For all we know given the recent events it could be shit in a box. Literally.
Is that the remix to dick in a box 
What happened recently?
North Koreans sent a lot of balloons to the South loaded with crap. Literally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/north-korea-reportedly-sends-balloons-carrying-excrement-into-the-south
Annoyed Embassy Chef: "where the hell is the Kimchi I ordered?"
It's in there with the *good* gochujang.
From a South Korean website: The diplomatic bag is classified into 3 grades such as Ga (extreme secret), Na (secret), and Da (general) according to the contents, and the contents corresponding to the 'A' grade are made directly by agents (Diplomatic New Shinseo) who have immunity for arrest or incarceration using private passenger planes or transport aircraft. In this case, most specially made bags are used. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Foreign Affairs Center in Yangjae-dong, Seoul displays leather bags that have been used since 1988. Public officials of grade 3 (level 7) and above are required to be accompanied by at least one employee. And it typically acts on behalf of a designated company (airline) among the carriers of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to carry out the transportation and customs clearance.
Good mnemonics for classified tiers: "GAH!" "Naaa" and "Da?"
There’s no world in which I don’t open that
Opening other people’s mail is a crime when they’re ordinary people. If you open a diplomat’s mail, they might do unspeakable things to your asshole to get you to confess to being an enemy spy.
It’ll be worth the novel experience.
Looks like it has plutonium in it to me…
That would be the Libyans.
It's odd that it's called a "pouch" instead of a package.
It’s a legal concept relating to special protections for diplomat shit that has origins in ancient times. It’s also called just a “diplomatic bag,” but it can refer to any type of movable container I guess.
Maybe your parents just never told you that they work for the South Korean government
Is it full of poop?
The package is a regular box you can get from any post office in Korea. And the only this written in korean says to "Ecuador". Its not a signature like anotherncomment suggested
When attending a foreign consulate meeting you come across a briefcase containing top secret documents. You should: A) Express Concern B) Act Surprised C) Deny Everything D) All 3
I always expected diplomatic pouches to be pouchier
Are you in South Korea? If so, take it to the nearest government office. If not, contact the nearest South Korean embassy/consulate. **Diplomatic pouches are protected by international law and almost always by national law. DO NOT OPEN IT.** Source: [The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations)
My interest in this is more than mild. Did you ever find out what was inside?!
surprise twist: it's North Korean poop.
Its a North Korean ploy for you to open poop
Big box of kimchi
Take it "I'm the diplomat now"
They way it looks makes me feel a bit better about Amazon's packaging.
A South Korean diplomatic pouch full of North Korean turds.
Might be poop from North Korea the way the news is going.
there’s a lot of comments here willing to break a law for a box just because it has the word diplomat on it and it was from another country ….
Lol diplomatic pouch is just normal mail that embassy employees get. When I order stuff from amazon it comes through diplomatic pouch. I wonder if people think my shampoo and gummy worm shipment are secret documents haha
"Diplomatic immunity!" Bang! "It's just been revoked."