S. Korean man seized with marijuana at Nagoya airport

NAGOYA, Japan - A Nagoya customs official shows off marijuana allegedly smuggled by a South Korean man June 11. Pak Mun Sok, a 29-year-old postgraduate student, was arrested on May 25 after arriving from Bangkok with some 4.7 kilograms of marijuana with a street value of about 23.5 million yen.

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