If you go to South Korea to sell rice on your back, you can earn thousands of yuan in one trip
Such a magical realism scene actually happened in 2023, which is unbelievable.
However, the fact is that these people called "food customers" not only existed, but even almost captured the flight from Qingdao to South Korea.
Some time ago, when a passenger was heading to South Korea at Qingdao Airport, he was stopped at the boarding gate because of the serious overweight of the checked food, and then he was incompetent and furious, and smashed his luggage, causing the flight to be delayed for more than an hour.
And before that, there were even flights where the luggage racks in the cabin were crushed because the passengers were carrying too much food.
This matter can be said to be quite unbelievable.
Backpackers are actually quite common, such as Shenzhen-Hong Kong water passengers, which still exist until now, but most of the backpackers are small in size and high value products, and they are generally human flesh transportation or sea transportation.
These "grain customers" take planes to make **, or rice, a heavy and large thing, is it really profitable?
But from another point of view, people are profit-seeking, and normal people can't do things that cost money and energy just to send warmth to Koreans.
In fact, taking the plane ** grain is not only profitable, but even quite profitable.
Such profit margins can be achieved because the air ticket from Qingdao to South Korea is quite cheap, and secondly, because South Korean rice is too expensive.
At the beginning of 2023, South Korea treated those who left the customs with China differently and issued a "yellow card", causing a wave of ** crisis, and then, China stopped issuing short-term visas to South Korea, and the air ticket from Qingdao to Seoul also dropped to the freezing point.
Even after the food customers have been hyped for a while, the ticket price from Qingdao to Seoul is basically no more than 500 yuan, and the round-trip ticket is less than 1,000 yuan, which is much cheaper than the ticket price from Shenzhen to Harbin.
Qingdao is also the city with the most frequent flights to and from South Korea, with fifteen flights a day to South Korea, and the whole flight takes about an hour, so the transportation can be said to be quite convenient, even more convenient than many people commuting across cities.
This has shifted the industry from the more noticeable sea freight to the more convenient, fast and efficient air freight.
And why is there such a cheap product as rice resale?
In fact, there is a misconception in the eyes of ordinary people, that is, rice is cheap in China, but not everywhere.
Just as everyone will not understand how the members of the two teams of Japan and South Korea fought and reported each other because of the free ** watermelon during the Beijing Winter Olympics, South Korea's rice ** is also at a high level unimaginable for Chinese.
In the ordinary supermarkets in China, the most common and basic rice basically starts at 4 pieces a kilogram, and the rice with better quality will not exceed 10 pieces a kilogram, and if it is a large number of wholesales, it will be cheaper.
In South Korea, the first grade of rice is generally more than 20 yuan, and better quality rice, especially high-quality rice imported from Northeast China, may even reach 40 yuan a kilogram.
If you don't look at the ** of bulk rice, there are also some brands of rice sold in South Korea in China, and the price in China is less than 50 yuan 5kg. In South Korea, the same rice becomes 34,700 won, which is equivalent to about 190 yuan, a difference of nearly five times.
So how much can a food customer earn?
Because ** will generally be cheaper than the local **, so the actual profit margin will not be so amazing. On average, there is a profit margin of about 20-30 yuan per **1kg of rice.
Ordinary food customers can generally carry 3 pieces of luggage full of grain, use the free checked baggage allowance to check 2 pieces, and then carry one free hand baggage for registration. For some food travelers who fly more and have a gold or even platinum card, they can carry more luggage.
In economy class, for example, the weight of checked baggage needs to be less than 23kg, and two pieces of luggage are nearly 50kg. Although the weight limit of hand luggage is 10kg, hand luggage is generally not weighed, so some people will carry 30kg or even 50kg of luggage on board, and the luggage with the front collapsed luggage rack is estimated to come like this.
So it counts,The most ordinary and cautious grain passengers can also carry nearly 60kg of rice on board in one trip, and they can earn 1,800 yuan in one trip, even if the ticket money is subtracted, the income of this trip is close to 1,000 yuanNot to mention those who can carry a piece of luggage and have a severely overweight hand luggage.
And many grain customers will not return empty-handed, after transporting rice from China to South Korea, they can buy some high-value small things in South Korea and so on to return to China to make a little more money.
Therefore, these grain customers seem incredible, but making a lot of money from the subtleties is the real big smart.
They not only care about their own country's jobs, but also care about other countries' jobs, and they are the ones who really study national affairs.
So, why can't Koreans afford this job?
Rice is so expensive, it is indeed an exaggeration to say that Koreans can't afford to serve a rice bowl, but this rice bowl is really a bit heavy, so that Koreans eat less and less rice.
In the 90s of the last century, South Korean residents consumed 110 kilograms of rice per capita per year. However, from 2016 to 2020, South Korea's rice demand decreased by 2 per year0%。In 2022, the annual per capita consumption of rice by South Korean residents will drop by nearly half, to only about 56 kilograms.
So is it true that Koreans don't like rice anymore?In fact, in Korea, it's not just rice that is expensive, but all agricultural products are expensive. If you can't afford expensive ones, you don't like to eat them, and it is inevitable that there will be some suspicions of "can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour".
Take rice as an example, since there is a steady stream of grain customers sending grain to South Korea, and so much has been transported, the ** of Korean rice has not been beaten down. Then it also shows that South Korea does have such a large consumption, so even if it has shipped so much, there is still demand.
So since there is such a big gap, why not import it directly?
Although the customs will not stop individuals from transporting a little grain, if they import grain, it is illegal, and if there are too many single types transported, it is very likely to be detained by the customs.
This is because South Korea has implemented an ultra-high tax policy on imported grain, etc., and it can be said that South Korea's agricultural products remain high, which is completely man-made.
As an island nation, South Korea's grain production is not high, and the food self-sufficiency rate has been below 50% for a long timeMost of them are imported. This is understandable, but the global food price is not expensive, not to mention that South Korea and the United States have such a good relationship, and the United States is the country with the lowest grain production cost in the world, if South Korea wants low-cost food, it is impossible to buy it.
But the agricultural associations in South Korea do not allow it.
Under the guise of protecting the interests of peasants, the Korean Agricultural Cooperatives have spread all over the country, demanding that even if the peasants' production efficiency is low, they must have high incomes and subsidies for the peasants.
As a result, since 2014, South Korea has imposed a 513% tariff on imported riceAt the same time, subsidies are given to local farmers, and the ** of local rice is far lower than that of imported rice, and no matter what kind of local rice is grown, there will be a market.
Under such protection, South Korea's grain production is decreasing. In 2020, South Korea's annual rice production decreased by 64% and only 35070,000 tons. In 2022-2023, grain production had rebounded to 3.76 million tons, but South Korean officials actually demanded a reduction in the rice planting area in 2023-2024.
As a result, South Korea's total grain production is expected to be less than 6 million tons in 2023-2024. If calculated in terms of per capita food availability, it is not even comparable to India, the most populous country.
Since the beginning of this year, under South Korea's "full control".Food inflation is still growing faster than headline, and food prices are at their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.
In fact, this year's food crisis in South Korea is closely related to another thing, that is, the "urea shortage".
In 2021, South Korea once fell into a "urea shortage", and in South Korea, where diesel vehicles are used on a large scale, urea is an important ingredient in purifying diesel vehicle exhaust. Therefore, the "urea shortage" two years ago once brought South Korea's logistics, construction, public services and other fields to a halt.
Finally,Or China urgently allocated 1870,000 tons of urea allowed South Korea to solve this urgent need.
As we all know, urea is used as an agricultural fertilizer in addition to industrial use, and fertilizer is always in short supply, so how good can agriculture be?
In the past year, South Korea's fertilizer has entered a new round of shortage, mainly because urea, in addition to industrial and agricultural use, is also a little linked to the military industry.
At the end of last year, South Korea sent 100,000 rounds of artillery shells to the United States, and a very important raw material for the production of artillery shells is synthetic ammonia, which is an important component of chemical fertilizer. Urea can also be used to make a compound called urea ammonium nitrate, which can be used to make artillery shells, rockets, mines and other military **.
With so many shells made, a lot of ammonia compounds were used, and for this reason, South Korea began to purchase fertilizers in the international market for a long time.
But coincidentally, Russia is not only the world's largest exporter of nitrogen fertilizers, but also the world's second-largest exporter of potash fertilizers and the world's third-largest exporter of phosphate fertilizers. The artillery shells given to the United States by South Korea are indirectly supported by Ukraine, and it can be said that the way to buy fertilizer from the international community has been cut off by more than half.
Although China still imports relevant raw materials to South Korea, since the beginning of this year, China's urea production imported from South Korea has declined one after another, and by the end of the year, it has directly restricted the export of urea and ammonium phosphate to South Korea. At present, South Korea's urea reserves are only enough to last for another three months.
In the case of further reduction in planting area and insufficient amount of chemical fertilizer, perhaps next year, South Korea's food ** will usher in another wave**.
South Korea's import of Chinese chili sauce, South Korea's import of Chinese kimchi, Korean cabbage sold for 100 yuan, Koreans made a special trip to China to eat meat, and even Chinese cosmetics are selling well in South Korea, which has almost become a menstrual or even menstrual topic.
The reason why these topics have been discussed all the time is because they completely reverse the impression of the past. In the case of cosmetics, less than a decade ago, Korean cosmetics almost took over domestic makeup stores. Now, domestic cosmetics have been successfully exported to South Korea.
However, compared to these daily necessities, the problem of food is puzzling.
This is mainly due to the fact that most of the cultivated land in the country is only allowed to grow staple grains, and the state finance will also subsidize it, and a small part of the cultivated land is used to grow vegetables, and other agricultural products can be imported from foreign countries to ensure that the food rations are absolutely sufficient.
However, South Korea's agricultural associations have reduced the area under cultivation after grain production has finally recovered.
Why?Because the agricultural associations do not protect the interests of the peasants, many peasants do not directly own the land, and after raising the first grade, it will only be the big landlords who own large tracts of land that make money.
In order for these people to make money, no one cares about the lives of the people in the shack areas at all.
However, the rice bowl that everyone should be able to afford should not be so heavy.
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