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The military is now trying a new approach to preventing black marketing in Korea:
U.S. military officials here are using homeland security technology to crack down on a different sort of crime: black marketing.
Computer codes once developed to predict terrorist activities and illegal stock market trades have been adapted to identify people who buy popular black market items at the 12 commissaries throughout South Korea, U.S. Forces Korea officials say.
The technology is so precise that it can spot the shopper who occasionally buys one or two packages of hot dogs but never remembers the buns. It can find the childless person who routinely buys baby food and formula. It can pick out the retired officer who just happens to cash out in the same checkout lane — manned by the same cashier — during every shopping excursion.
This may sound like a good idea but the professional black marketers aided by their AAFES accomplices will find a way around it. This computer program also doesn’t take into account all the merchandise that magically disappears at the port.
The only way to stop black marketing is for the Korean authorities to shut down the black markets. In the downtown Uijongbu market for example you can pretty much buy everything from the CRC commissary there. Some of the items still have the AAFES price tags on them. Why doesn’t someone arrest these people? If black marketers don’t have a market to sell the items to that might actually leave some meat on the shelves for service members. This computer program is only going to prevent a drop in the bucket of the real problem, the black markets themselves.
