In Korea, you can also see warehouse-type large discount marts. The difference from E-Mart and Homeplus is that it operates as a so-called ‘membership system’ that requires payment of an annual membership fee. It is probably because there are many cheaper and better quality products compared to other hypermarkets. Today, I organized Costco holidays, business hours, and annual fees.
Please refer to the article below!
Closed days and business hours information
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee! 코스트코 영업시간
☞Costco Korea (shortcut) 좋은뉴스
First, let’s talk about business hours. Let’s go to the ‘Costco Korea Homepage’ by searching for ‘Costco’ on the portal site you use frequently.
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee!
If you look at the top, you will see a menu called ‘Find a store’. You can find stores nationwide here. You can find the store you want to visit by searching by city name. If you actually search and enter, you can see that the store address, phone number, email, etc. are guided. You can also see the business hours and closed days of the store at once.
How to find store opening hours
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee!
You can check that directions (addresses) and store information for stores across the country are listed. There are Yangpyeong, Sangbong, Yangjae, Gwangmyeong, Ilsan, Hanam, Uijeongbu, Songdo, Gongse, Cheonan, Sejong, Daejeon, Daegu, Daegu Innovation City, Ulsan, and Busan. If you click the ‘Store Information’ button for the desired area, you can check the business hours of that branch. For example, let’s click the Busan branch.
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee!
You can check detailed store information of the Busan branch. You can check the detailed address, store phone number, e-mail address, business hours, etc. The business hours of the Busan branch are from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, and the second and fourth Sundays of each month are mandatory.
In this way, you can search for the city you want to check or find a store and check the opening hours through ‘Store Finder’.
How to find holidays
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee!
Now let’s talk about holidays. Let’s click on the “Closed Days” tab that appears under the store locator page. This will take you to the following page.
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee!
Based on the writing date (2020.10.14), you can try to figure out the holiday for the month. As you can see in October, stores across the country have different holidays. On October 11 (Sun) and 25 (Sun), Yangpyeong, Daegu, Daejeon, Yangjae, Sangbong, Busan, Gwangmyeong, Cheonan, Uijeongbu, Gongse, Songdo, Sejong, Daegu Innovation You can see that , Hanam branch, etc. are closed. Also, on October 14th (Wed), Ulsan Branch and October 28th (Wed), Ilsan Branch are closed. And if you look at the alternative business day guide below, you can see that Uijeongbu and Hanam stores are open on the 11th, and Ilsan and Gwangmyeong stores are open for alternative business on October 14 and 25, respectively.
In the same way, you can also check the closed days, business days, and business hours of the store in your area through the Costco Korea website every month.
Find out the annual fee through membership registration
As mentioned in the introduction, this is a membership-based warehouse-type discount store. Since it is a large store, there are many cases where not only regular customers but also those who operate cafes and restaurants in the food service industry receive discounts in bulk. That’s why the annual fee is different for each case. Please check the following.
How to check Costco business hours and annual fee!
Business membership: KRW 33,000
Executive Business Class Membership: KRW 80,000
Gold Star Membership: KRW 38,500
Executive Gold Star Membership: KRW 80,000
The annual fee membership can also be used when shopping at the online mall. If you use it often or make a lot of purchases in large quantities, using an executive membership is advantageous in terms of money because you can get even a little discount. Because it is a membership.
finishing up
Above, we learned about Costco holidays, business hours, and annual fees. I hope it will be of some help to those who often use the store. thank you.