grogiefrog said:
Should you leave in '07, how will you move your KJ? Or will you just sell it locally?
I plan on keeping my KJ as long as I can. I'm shipping it back with me.
It's really hard to sell locally. The locals still have to pay customs/taxes on foreign vehicles and a fee to a Gov't agency to do the paper work, which is a mandatory requirement. I don't know what all this is in detail, but the price almost doubles in everything.
A few months ago, an exported, used 97 Ford Taurus sold for about $6,000 locally. I put mine up for U.S. Blue Book price (to advertise to other Military or DOD personnel), which was about $3,600 at the time. The locals were coming at me in all directions, ...but when it got down to it, they would have ended up paying $2,300 extra in taxes/fees alone, which puts it all back to the retail price of an export. It got so bad I actually had a guy help me post a sign in Korean with an explanation.
So one can hand a brand new KJ for free to a local, but I estimate he or she will pay $23,000 in taxes.