Costco ... in Korea?

Yep, there is actually a Costco in Korea. Its about an hour and a half away from where I live and its strangely similar to the ones that are in the US. I've included a few pictures below so that you can see, assuming you've been in a US one. It was a good trip, I spent about 100,000 Korean Won ($80 USD) getting food stuffs. They had a lot of american foods that you can't find in other places (like bacon) so it seemed like a good idea to stock up while I was here. The people that I went with ended up spending about 400,000 Won, but they got some other items (printer, household goods, etc) and will be here a lot longer than I will be.


Also interesting, Costco sells beer. I didn't know that it did this, however I live in PA where you have to go to "special government operated facilities" to buy it. I snagged a picture of a few of their classier imports. I still have a hard time seeing Budweiser as an import beer....


Lastly there is a food court too, same as the US ones. The food is actually exactly the same as the US based ones too (we got a 16" pizza). You can kind of see "ads" for the items in the back right side of the picture. The only difference was that the menu's were in Korean first and English second. It was nice to go there, but it felt like it was a "bizarro world" sort of effect. Everything was similar, but just that little bit off.