Source: Crazy Days and Nights

I am sure it is no coincidence that a manager of one of the most famous K-pop bands of all time was the recipient of a shipment from China that was intercepted by authorities in South Korea nearly a decade ago.

2012 to be exact.

South Korea cracks down on human flesh capsules from China – 2012

(AP) SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.

Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.

The customs office has discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters, and some people believe them to be a panacea for disease, the customs service said in a statement. The capsules of human flesh, however, contained bacteria and other harmful ingredients.

The smugglers told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process.

Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. They were carried in luggage or sent by international mail. – Source

Child cannibalism

China

Controversy has been sparked when the performance artist Zhu Yu claimed that he prepared, cooked and ate real human bodies, including fetuses, as an artistic performance. The performance was called Eating People he claimed it was to protest against cannibalism. It was intended as “shock art”. The Chinese Ministry of Culture cited a menace to social order and the spiritual health of the Chinese people, banned exhibitions involving culture, animal abuse, corpses, and overt violence and sexuality and Zhu Yu was prosecuted for his deeds.

Snopes and other urban legend sites have said the “fetus” used by Zhu Yu was most likely constructed from a duck’s body and a doll head. Other images from another art exhibit were falsely circulated along with Zhu Yu’s photographs and claimed to be evidence of fetus soup.

Critics see the propagation of these rumors as a form of blood libel, or accusing one’s enemy of eating children, and accuse countries of using this as a political lever.

Korea

Capsule pills filled with human baby flesh in the form of powder were seized by South Koreans from ethnic Koreans living in China, who had tried to smuggle them into South Korea and consume the capsules themselves or distribute them to other ethnic Korean citizens of China living in South Korea. Experts later suggested that the pills had actually been made of newborn placenta for the documented practice of human placentophagy. – Source

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