What We Bought at Costco Korea: July Week 1

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Costco Korea: Reading a July Week-One Grocery Basket

This historical shopping record is useful for seeing how one Korean household combines pantry staples, fresh food, and prepared meals. Its prices describe the original basket, not offers available today.

Prices actually listed in the record

ItemRecorded price, KRW
Golden Stallion wine8,790
Pulmuone eggs, 3010,490
Silky Pink tomatoes, 2 kg12,490
Frozen US chuck eye roll31,990
Starbucks capsules37,480
Shiitake mushrooms5,990
AA batteries, 4814,990
Pulmuone makguksu6,790
Omadeng tteokbokki13,390
Seasoned shredded squid19,990
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Comparing a basket without misleading unit prices

Some entries have a quantity while others only have a package price. For the eggs, 10,490 divided by 30 is about 350 KRW per egg. For the tomatoes, 12,490 divided by 2 is 6,245 KRW per kilogram. These are calculations from the historical basket, not newly checked shelf prices. The meat package is not weighed in the captured record, so no per-kilogram meat price can be calculated.

The author describes an 8,000 KRW reduction on the beef package and a one-package-per-membership limit for eggs. Those conditions belong to that shopping account. They should not be read as current Costco rules.

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What the basket tells a cook

Eggs, mushrooms, and shredded squid are ingredients for repeated kitchen use, while makguksu and tteokbokki are prepared-meal shortcuts. Comparing their package prices alone would miss that distinction. A useful shopping list separates the dishes you will cook from the ready-made meals you intend to use, then checks pack size and what is already at home.

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Scope of this archive

The source is titled July week one, but this captured list does not establish a complete promotion date range or all package weights. This edition does not infer them, claim that discounts remain active, or recommend buying on the basis of an old price.

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Source and editorial record

Adapted with permission from the Korean kitchen record by gayagum12 on NAVER. English drafting used automated assistance. Source comparison completed for this edition on 13 October 2026. Original observations belong to the credited author; this edition is not an independent kitchen or product test.

Ink-wash illustrations are visual interpretations, not documentary photographs of the recipe steps.