Korea Forest Service activates monitoring system to block illegal wild ginseng distribution online
Published 2025년 11월 19일
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(Daejeon=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jun-ho = The Korea Forest Service announced on the 19th that it will activate a permanent monitoring system to block the distribution of illegal wild ginseng through e-commerce.
This is a measure to respond to the situation where wild ginseng, which has not undergone quality inspection, is being distributed indiscriminately online.
Illegal wild ginseng, which is distributed without attaching a quality inspection certificate or falsely labeling the origin, damages consumer trust and leads to economic damage such as a drop in the price of genuine products.
This monitoring system standardizes types of violations such as theft of others' certificates, lack of certificates, and disguising foreign products as domestic ones, and operates by combining automatic collection of product information based on key words and precise manual checks by dedicated personnel.
For identified violating products, the e-commerce operators will be requested to stop sales and correct product information, and, if necessary, product collection will be conducted for pesticide residue testing and administrative and judicial measures will be taken.
During the past Chuseok holiday, a total of 416 illegal products were stopped from sale and information was corrected in collaboration with Naver. Investigations are also being requested to related agencies for products found to contain pesticide residues.
Director Choi Moo-yeol said, "Fake wild ginseng is a serious problem that simultaneously collapses consumer damage and the trust of farming households," and added, "We will continue to enhance the technology of the monitoring system and expand cooperation with e-commerce operators to establish order in the overall online distribution ecosystem."
This is a measure to respond to the situation where wild ginseng, which has not undergone quality inspection, is being distributed indiscriminately online.
Illegal wild ginseng, which is distributed without attaching a quality inspection certificate or falsely labeling the origin, damages consumer trust and leads to economic damage such as a drop in the price of genuine products.
This monitoring system standardizes types of violations such as theft of others' certificates, lack of certificates, and disguising foreign products as domestic ones, and operates by combining automatic collection of product information based on key words and precise manual checks by dedicated personnel.
For identified violating products, the e-commerce operators will be requested to stop sales and correct product information, and, if necessary, product collection will be conducted for pesticide residue testing and administrative and judicial measures will be taken.
During the past Chuseok holiday, a total of 416 illegal products were stopped from sale and information was corrected in collaboration with Naver. Investigations are also being requested to related agencies for products found to contain pesticide residues.
Director Choi Moo-yeol said, "Fake wild ginseng is a serious problem that simultaneously collapses consumer damage and the trust of farming households," and added, "We will continue to enhance the technology of the monitoring system and expand cooperation with e-commerce operators to establish order in the overall online distribution ecosystem."
Original content
(Daejeon=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jun-ho = The Korea Forest Service announced on the 19th that it will activate a permanent monitoring system to block the distribution of illegal wild mountain ginseng through e-commerce. This measure is in response to the situation where wild mountain ginseng, which has not undergone quality inspection, is being distributed indiscriminately online. Illegal wild mountain ginseng, which is distributed without attaching a quality inspection pass or falsely labeling the origin, damages consumer trust and leads to economic damage such as a drop in the price of genuine products. This monitoring system standardizes types of violations such as theft of others' inspection passes, lack of inspection pass, and disguising foreign products as domestic ones, and operates by combining automatic collection of product information based on key words and precise manual checks by dedicated personnel. For identified violating products, e-commerce operators will be ...
Source: Yna
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