Whoa, I'm seriously thankful for Low Yat. Has been very informative. Would like to share my experience for future buyers.

My parcel from Gmarket Korea was detained at the Butterworth Customs and I received my letter on the 11th. Tracking log as below.

1:48 05-Aug-2010 Posting/Collection DONGSUWON
13:12 05-Aug-2010 Arrival at outward office of exchange INTERNATIONAL POST OFFICE
14:56 05-Aug-2010 Departure from outward office of exchange INTERNATIONAL POST OFFICE
Handed over to Air carrier INCHEON
09:55 07-Aug-2010 Arrival at inward office of exchange MYKULA
10:20 07-Aug-2010 Handed over to Customs MYKULA

Collected today without paying any tax. So freaking happy! Was really worried because I bought bags and shoes. And according to the customs website, leather bags and shoes are non-dutiable so I was gonna kinda say they are all made from leather. Anyway, I only brought my invoice which was in Korean. The customs officer was actually really friendly. He made me open the box to verify its contents. The whole time I thought he was trying to properly verify what the items were so he could classify them and tax them, but instead he was actually admiring the items!

He was like, 'ahh korean bags very nice yah.' Looks at sealed shoe boxes, 'What's this? Open, open, show me.' Once box was opened, ' Wah really very nice ah. Korea makes very good things. Their contact lenses are also better.'

Then he calculated the total in MYR and orders me to go into another room, his ketua's room, a very young malay woman and I also dunno what she did, only looked at the documents, chopped them and said I can leave. All in all, as long as the items incl postage was less than RM500, you are free to go.

My advice to you is if your original invoice is less than RM500 just bring the online invoice sent to you. If not, then say you forgot. Because Gmarket (I'm assuming you bought from there) actually understates you item. I purchased 4 bags and 3 pairs of shoes but Gmarket only disclosed 3 bags and 1 pair of shoes, so if you're damn unlucky, you could still save a bit on tax.... What to say about the extra items? Free gift should do the trick!