Inexplicable World of Korea #7 - Cheese

We love cheese. We love cheese so much we are willing to pay outrageous Korean prices to have the delicious taste of imported cheese. We love cheese so much we bring it back with us from Canada, in small cooler bags, in hopes that it doesn't get confiscated so we can enjoy the old cheddar, dill havarti, or cranberry goat's cheese in the comfort of our own home.

Korean cheese is plastic. No joke. Think Kraft Singles, but worse. They have pineapple and other flavoured cheese slices. When it's placed under heat it actually melts the way plastic melts. This means that at the grocery store, all the decent cheese is imported. This also means that it is a big ticket item. So stores unleash a high level of security on such items. At least, this is what I found on my recent trip to E-mart.

Must be all those criminal foreigners ... stealing cheese.

This one is actually in a locked plastic box. I wonder if it melts the way Korean cheese does?
It retails for around $10.

Oh no! It might dye your cheese. Seriously, who wouldn't just cut around that?
This one retails for about $6.