Sending flowers to your family in Korea from abroad
If you live outside Korea and your parents or grandparents are still there, this is the practical side of it — what people send, when the days fall, and what we need from you so that it arrives at the right door.
Most of what we send from abroad goes to parents. The person ordering is usually a son or a daughter working, studying or settled in another country, and the person receiving it has not seen them for a while. What follows assumes that.
What do people send their parents in Korea?
A flower basket more often than a bouquet, from ₩47,000. A basket arrives arranged and standing — there is no vase to find and nothing to cut — which matters when the person receiving it is elderly or lives alone.
A Korean orchid is the other common send, from ₩47,900. It is the dignified, formal-feeling gift in Korea and it lasts for weeks rather than days, so it stays in the room long after the delivery. For a home that already has plants, a foliage plant (from ₩47,000) works the same way.
A bouquet (from ₩45,000) is the right thing when the point is the moment of handing it over — a birthday, an anniversary — rather than something to keep.
8 May — Parents' Day (어버이날). One day for both parents, not two separate days. The traditional gift is a red carnation: children pin one on a parent, and grown children send carnations with money or a gift.
From abroad, a basket or bouquet built around carnations is what to send, and it is the one day of the year when a Korean parent is expecting flowers and will know exactly what they mean.
Teachers' Day (스승의 날) falls on 15 May, the same week. That week is the busiest of our year — busier than any wedding weekend. Order two or three days ahead if you can; on 8 May itself the flowers still go out, but the good carnations are gone early.
A parent has a big birthday — 60th, 70th. Is that different?
Yes. A sixtieth (환갑) and a seventieth (칠순) are held as gatherings, often at a restaurant or a banquet room rather than at home, and the family dresses for it. For those, send to the venue rather than the house, and tell us the venue name, the room and the hour.
A basket or an orchid suits a room like that. If a parent will be sitting at the head of the table, a corsage is worn on the day — we can send one with the flowers.
A cake can go too (₩31,000–₩38,000) if the gathering is at home and nobody has arranged one. At a banquet room, check first — the venue has usually brought one already.
For the two big holidays the customary gift is food, not flowers — fruit, ginseng, honey, hangwa sweets — and that is what most families abroad send home. We sell flowers and plants, not the food sets, and we would rather say so than talk you into the wrong thing.
What does work for the holidays is a Korean orchid (from ₩47,900) to an elder, sent a few days before. It is read as respectful rather than festive, and it is still there when the family has gone home.
Both holidays move with the lunar calendar, so the dates shift every year. Tell us the day you want it to arrive and we will work back from that.
My parents will not answer an unknown number. How does the delivery work?
This is the most common problem with sending to an older household, and it is worth reading before you order. Our driver calls the recipient's number on arrival. If nobody answers and nobody is home, the flowers cannot simply be left at the door — cut flowers do not survive a day outside.
So give us the recipient's own Korean mobile number, not a landline, and the full address including the building, floor and unit number. Korean apartment complexes have many buildings with the same name and the unit number is what separates them.
If you would rather they were not called at all — because it is a surprise — say so when you order and we will call you instead. And if you know a time when someone is definitely home, tell us; we will aim for it.
How do I know it arrived, if I am not there?
We email you a photograph of the flowers after they are delivered. Not a stock photograph of the product — the actual arrangement, where it ended up.
For most people sending from abroad this is the part that matters, because the alternative is phoning your mother to ask whether the flowers came, which gives away the surprise and puts her on the spot if they have not.
Give us an email address you actually read. 08:00–21:00 KST, open every day If anything is wrong in the photograph — the wrong name on the card, the wrong address — tell us straight away and we will fix it. Order by 6:00 PM KST for same-day delivery.
Questions before you order?
Message us and a person will answer, usually within a few minutes during opening hours. We can help with the address, the ribbon wording, or choosing between arrangements.
