South Korea Confiscates Fake Masks with Excessive Preservatives, Masks Specially Made and Sold to China

The South Korean YTN news and "Asia Economic Net" reported on Feb. 4th, South Korean mask branded Leaders was very popular in China, but the Korean Patent Office recently raided a factory manufacturing counterfeiting Leaders mask, this factory has made more than 100 thousand masks, which have been sold to China.

Reportedly, this factory has made 266,000 masks of Leaders Insolution, the market price 4.5 million yuan, suspected person manufacturing and circulating counterfeit mask Cai (45 years old), and other three people have been placed on file investigation. The police at the scene confiscated 158,000 masks, presumably, the rest 100 thousand masks have been sold to China.

It’s learned that Cai and his partners built a factory in a lonely place in Paju, Gyeonggi South Korea and employed foreign workers to produce fake Leaders masks, which are as same as the genuine masks in packaging, but contains phenoxyethanol preservatives and other ingredients harmful to human and excludes anti-wrinkle adenosine( included in the genuine one) .

It’s reported that authentic mask businesses are worried about the counterfeit goods into the market, which is expected to cause some adverse impact on the company's brand reputation. Currently, in order to minimize the damage of cooperate image and prevent counterfeiting mask from continuing into China, the Korea China Patent Office has applied for co-promoter of the Chinese judiciary.

It’s reported that many Korean local goods become famous with the "Korean wave" tide, but counterfeit goods confiscated by the Korean Patent Office are increasing every year. The Korean Patent Office said it would develop a local brand protection countermeasures, and strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights of domestic brands.（ｗｗｗ．ｃｈｉｎａｉｎｏｕｔ．ｃｏｍ）