(1) The head of a customs office may keep in custody foreign goods whose country of origin is falsely labeled as Korea from among foreign goods temporally unloaded onto land or transferred to another means of transportation in transshipment or combined transshipment pursuant to Article 141.
(2) Foreign goods kept in custody in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be stored in a place managed by the head of a customs office: Provided, That this shall not apply where the head of the customs office deems it unnecessary to do so.
(3) When the head of a customs office keeps foreign goods in custody in accordance with paragraph (1), he or she shall notify the owner of such foreign goods or a person entrusted by such owner of the fact.
(4) When the head of a customs office serves a notice referred to in paragraph (3), he or she may order to correct the country of origin labels in question or to take other necessary measures within a fixed period. In such cases, the head of the customs office shall serve a notice on the owner of the foreign goods or the person entrusted by such owner to the effect that if he or she fails to comply with orders, the foreign goods in question shall be sold.
(5) When an order referred to in the former part of paragraph (4) is implemented, the head of a customs office shall release the goods from such custody immediately.
(6) When an order referred to in the former part of paragraph (4) is not implemented, the head of a customs office may sell the goods in question. In such cases, Articles 160 (4) through (6) and 210 shall apply mutatis mutandis to methods and procedures for such sale.[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 30, 2010]