Luxury Designer Fakes, Best Quality from South Korea, China
By: picaresque
Like the Razzies to the Oscars, designer counterfeiters find fame for bad behavior.
It must be a tad insulting to the 2007 Oscars Awards that their nod to the best in films has to share February with the worst in movies of the 2007 Razzie Awards. Just imagine what the United States, hell-bent on its counterfeit crackdown, must feel about Asia, in heaven with its bestseller fakes.
Designer knockoffs of brands like Louis Vuitton, Prada, Chanel, Christian Dior, Hermes, Burberry sell hot and fast in cities across Asia. Luxury fakes abound in Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur. Counterfeits are now a $500 billion business worldwide.
The vibe in the US is all glum and pointing fingers at counterfeiters as terrorists, but in China and South Korea, the mood is as festive as awards nights, fake merchandisers vying for their claims to fame.
Take South Korea, which vendors all over Asia agree make the best-quality fake designer bags. In the streets of Seoul, knockoff bags are peddled openly at dirt-cheap prices, bearing generic logos that are then replaced with designer logos once purchased.
At Namdaemoon, a veteran market in downtown Seoul, a merchant boasts: “We do not deal with Chinese products. For fake bags, South Korean products are the best. We export these products to…
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