Over half a million counterfeit Pokémon plushies confiscated in South Korea

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A South Korean sting operation has ended with roughly 530k counterfeit Pokémon plushies seized by police.
As reported by South Korean outlet Yes! Top News (via GoNintendo), the full bounty of counterfeit characters was worth an estimated $6.27 billion. Yes, billion.
Yes! Top News' report stated that companies selling these figures went from a mere 21 in 2015 to 1700 by this March, no doubt as a response to the Pokémon GO craze.
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