Can never go wrong with Costco! But extremely crowded

I'm from the States. I am just visiting Korea for 3 weeks of business trips and vacation. I visited Costco yangjae to buy souvenirs for those who are in the States. It has lots of goods from the states and also local stuff from Korea. Goods from U.S. are a lot more expensive than ones at yangjae costco. However, korea goods are very good price. I love how I can buy food, alcohol, cosmetics, clothing, and others at one location. I highly recommend coming to this place when they open in the morning on weekday. I could see there were waves of customers when we started leaving this place around noon time.

I have visited Costco in all 42 contiguous states and France. So I was excited at the chance to visit this location in Korea. I have read that it was the largest location in the world. This location encompasses multiple floors. Parking was a nightmare. Even on a weekday that should have been slow. Parking spaces are wider than normal spaces in Korea. But not as wide as the ones in the US. This store is extremely busy. I can’t imagine how busy it gets during peak hours and weekends. But like everything else, Korean staff are very efficient at moving things along. Checkout was a breeze and they had staff to place you in order of exit by which floor you parked on when getting on the elevator with your full carts. If you have heavy carts, they will direct you to go to the elevator from the escalator. Prices are comparable to the US for items that exist in both locations. Kirkland brands are very competitively priced to other Korean brands. Obviously there are Korea exclusive items. Try the food court to see what tastes better than the equivalent items in the states. I was pleasantly surprised by the hot dog as that tasted better than ones in the states. I like Costco and I look forward to visiting more international locations. It is cash only and only Hyundai Visa card. At one time they accepted Samsung card but they don’t anymore. I bought close to a thousand dollars worth of stuff to treat my extended family and had to use 50,000won bills. They had a bill counting machine so I handed them a wad to count rather than counting out myself and holding up the fast moving line. Layout can be very confusing because of the floors. Maybe if I live here I will have it better configured for shopping. But I never have issues when visiting single floor locations. Pricing for many items are much better than most markets. You just have to buy in bulk. I don’t feel that is the case anymore in the US, especially in suburban sites. Inner city ones almost always have better prices than any local markets. I didn’t see a sign for no photography, but I was kindly told by a staff to not take any photos. I stopped right away but I really wanted to show my friends the food court menu items so those are the pictures I have attached. I am single so I am not sure how often I will shop here if I move to this location. But buying items for family gathering allowed me to try out buying a cartful. Transporting goods would be hard without a car as almost everything is bulkpack. Water was cheap (almost 1/3 price) but my cart was too full for me to buy more.

Today I went to the COSTCO Yangjae Tire Center. They were having a promotion and so it was very crowded. Today was a Friday and we got to the shop at 10am but ended up waiting for 90 minutes just to get registered. After a short consultation and choosing the tires, we were told that the car would be ready around 9pm due to so many other cars before us. We could leave with the car and then I brought the car back to the Tire Center at 5:30. I did some shopping and got a phone call at 8pm saying the car is ready. All the staff are very friendly and courteous.

1.Good qualification of commodities with reasonable price through whole sales marketing as reputed in public until last year. 2. However, Average 30~40% hiked prices in comparison with the begging of this year. 3. Prices of vegetable /tropical fruits / Meat product ,etc.are not competitive particularly. 4. Especilly Insufficient hand /spraying alcohol bottles for COVID19 of which have not being shown at any display place except eating place on 1st floor. 5. Magement systems for protection of COVID19 are looked to more loose than other markets of Lotte/E -mart , etc. 6.The very very limited parking space in the light of the No.1 sales incoming amount among all their stores in the world. 7.■ some employees are very impolite with arrogant answer/behavior against their guests who are complaining about parking problems due to very limited parking space.■ Some employee's arrogant behaviors were believed to be made worstest employee's character (due to lot of crowed clients) of which management should have noticed with attention.

They have everything I need so I can buy in bulk. Check coupang before you purchase just to make sure youre getting the best deal. Upstairs is electronics and clothes and other items. The basement is food and deli and drinks. They have samples too. Koreans also lot their sets and other gift boxes so Costco here is so awesome

Quite similar to what we see here in North America. The difference that we saw is that they carry high-end items at this location. As always there food court is reasonable and large.

Part of the fun of being a Costco member is seeing what is sold in other countries. This is the 4th busiest (by revenues) in the world.

Good selection of products from Korea and outside Korea as well. This retailer regularly refreshes the fashion selection inline with the season. The price points are also decent. Cons You don't have a place to try out fashion products. Vegetables- would love to have more selection that what it already has

They had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving which was nice but they took plain cheese pizza off the menu 😭 what can the people with simple tastes eat?

Bulgogi pizza and combo pie heck yeah. Visited as a US member. Costco visa works!

Costco has some of the best quality products. Huge variety of products as well. Also just a nice place to go out to. Huge quantities of products. The Kirkland proteins bars and the zero fat yogurt are absolute gold and I haven't been able to find them anywhere else.

A lot more employees eager to help than COSTCOs in other countries. There were a lot of local items. Must try.

Coming from the States, it feels like home to shop at Costco.

The biggest Costco in Korea. This brunch has many choices of stuff more than other Costco. Not that many people on weekdays. In Korea not much choices of cheese like the USA. The Indian Chicken Curry with rice better taste with the really hot.

Amazing place for shopping. You can buy almost most of the homewares and food in low price. They sell good quality of products always. In addition, Refund is available always. Two thumbs up.

After I visit Costco in Korea, I can’t complain how many people we see in US Costco. We should appreciate that there are plenty parking and less crowd in US. Korea has their own selection of local food and groceries. But it would like you are in US Costco seeing Kirkland product and same product you see in US

(* This review is based on a peak-hour experience. Visiting during the quieter times may make it a 3 or 4-star experience.) The shopping area is fairly standard for Costco except it's multi-story and with an overcrowding problem on the first floor. Parking was exceptionally complicated, with a line spanning around the block and narrow ramps in the entirely indoor parking lot. I hope to never deal with it again. The food court was cleaner and more efficient than the American equivalents, but not to a meaningful degree during peak hours.