"What Is This?" Dollar Bills Included... Found Sequentially in Yeongjongdo

Police have launched an investigation after PET bottles filled with rice were found on the tidal flats of Yeongjongdo, Incheon.

The Incheon Yeongjong Police Station received a report from fishermen at around 11:00 p.m. yesterday (September 27) stating that PET bottles filled with rice were found on the tidal flat under the Muui Grand Bridge in Muui-dong, Yeongjong-gu.

The report was filed jointly with the police and the Korea Coast Guard.

Coast Guard officers dispatched to the scene discovered and retrieved about ten 1.5-liter PET bottles from the tidal flat.

All the PET bottles were filled with rice, and it was found that one or two of them also contained U.S. one-dollar bills.

Police are conducting an investigation to identify the person who scattered the PET bottles and the location where they were released.

They also plan to check whether there was an attempt to send the PET bottles toward the North.

In Incheon's border regions near North Korea, attempts to scatter PET bottles filled with rice toward the North have occurred consecutively in the past.

In June of last year, six Americans were caught by police while attempting to float about 1,300 PET bottles containing rice, one-dollar bills, and Bibles northward for missionary purposes.

A police official stated, "The location where the PET bottles were scattered has not yet been confirmed," adding, "We plan to proceed with the investigation while keeping various possibilities open."

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