SEJONG, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) -- The amount of illegal narcotics confiscated in South Korea jumped last year, as more drugs are being smuggled in through increasingly diverse means, the customs office said Tuesday.
The Korea Customs Service (KCS) said that it confiscated a total of 69.1 kilograms of drugs last year, up 38 percent from a year earlier.
The amount has an estimated street value of 88 billion won (US$82 million).
The KCS said the increase is due in part to the growing scale of drug smuggling. Some snuck in small amounts through international mail, and the country has been used as a stopover for delivery to other countries, it said.
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