Anonymous wrote:Size 3X t-shirts.

Haha that’s true. You might have a harder time finding those in Korea.
There’s really nothing you can’t get there, especially if it’s something that is popular here, thanks to international trade and Koreans’ appetite to have what’s best or great from other countries. Their selection of products from around the world is jaw dropping and even the average Joe is a pretty savvy consumer. I stopped taking stuff when I go visit my parents in Korea. If you want food stuff, you might want to take random less well known snacks that you personally enjoy eating and spin it that way, rather than try to say this is the representative American food/snack.

Anonymous wrote:I've taken maple sugar candies, pralines, and divinity to my European in-laws. They found them all kind of strange but certainly different and very American!

This. You could also bring legos, it’s much more expensive in other places. Please don’t take mix boxes to your family. If you think they’ll enjoy it, take with you and prepare an American meal there, but don’t just hand them a box.

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Anonymous wrote:Shiny pennies, nickels and dimes! Low cost and kids seem to love coins.

Please do not do this.

Just curious, why not? As a child I loved getting coins/money from different countries. It was a very interesting thing to me to see different currencies in different sizes and learning about the people or places that are in it. I know other kids that are the same.

Anonymous wrote:Shiny pennies, nickels and dimes! Low cost and kids seem to love coins.

+1

Anonymous wrote:My Korean aunt loves to go to Costco before going back to Korea. She buys vitamins and nuts.

Generally, I think Koreans are more into hugh end things than the average American, so a hard crowd to please.

Even Korean crayons are better than American ones!

Op here. My mom told me to get nuts and vitamins. She is charge of that for my aunts and uncles. I am buying for the kids.

i am an european immigrant face this question all the time. the best stuff are american brands that are overly expensive there. in my case those are things like gap, abercrombie, victoria secret, ralph lauren, tommy hilfiger, crocs. some toys also work.

We take stone-ground grits to relatives overseas. They discovered they loved shrimp and grits on a trip here, and they aren’t available there.

My Korean aunt loves to go to Costco before going back to Korea. She buys vitamins and nuts.

Generally, I think Koreans are more into hugh end things than the average American, so a hard crowd to please.

Even Korean crayons are better than American ones!

https://www.amazon.com/White-House-3D-Puzzle-Pieces/dp/B00FM6C3ZW/ref=asc_df_B00FM6C3ZW/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312142639163&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11451613011804118841&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007811&hvtargid=pla-568880226174&psc=1

oh and.. fidget spinners!

Get some small souvenir type of things from the mall little boots. Tinny White house replicas, Capitol, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Memorial, etc.. people , and kids too love little bit of America that looks exactly like real thing. They definitely don't have this there.

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Anonymous wrote:Shiny pennies, nickels and dimes! Low cost and kids seem to love coins.

Please do not do this.

I wouldn't make it your main present, but there are kids who go for this stuff. My eight year old this morning was talking my ear off about his coin collection, which is almost entirely made up of spare change from his uncle's travels.

RL, under armour, Nike

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/7nbu5m/american_snacks_not_found_in_korea/

I can take Sour Patch watermelon and maybe nutter butter cookies. Thank you for this list. I'm just taking token gifts.

I was thinking maybe some baseball caps or jerseys for some of the boys.

Jerky and guns

Anonymous wrote:Shiny pennies, nickels and dimes! Low cost and kids seem to love coins.

Please do not do this.