South Korea President Orders Seoul’s Main Airport to Search Every Book for Hidden Cash — CEO Says It Would Paralyze Travel [Roundup]



by Gary Leff


News and notes from around the interweb:

  • The President of South Korea is demanding that all bags get manually searched at Seoul Incheon airport because people might hide money in books, and apparently the small amounts of cash that could be involved are a government priority or something?

    This would melt down air travel, and be really bad prioritization – you do risk-based searches not blanket ones because focusing on small bills in books distracts from real security and customs interdiction. Such a strange demand.

    President Lee ordered to “look through all the books” in response to President Lee’s reply, “You can check if 100 bills are overlapped, but it is a little difficult to find them with the current technology if they are inserted like bookmarks one by one.”

    In addition, he said, “People carry books to read, they don’t put them in bags and pass through the checkpoint,” adding, “That’s a little suspicious, so you can search (books) and open them.”

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  • Passenger completely bypassed TSA in Philadelphia so he could smuggle prescription cough syrup. And he was caught by random chance.
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South Korea President Orders Seoul’s Main Airport to Search Every Book for Hidden Cash — CEO Says It Would Paralyze Travel [Roundup]

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