Okay, I’ll admit it. I didn’t even know that sending a care package to Korea was an option. So, obviously, I didn’t do it. However, I can see the desire to do it with the wait for travel becoming longer and longer. Anyhow, I’ve been browsing the web and here are some things that people are sending their babies in their care packages:

Disposable cameras
Clothes
Small toys
Family photos

They are also sending small gifts to the foster mothers which I think is a nice touch. My son was only in foster care for one month prior to his arrival so I didn’t learn much about his foster mother. For the first five months, he stayed at the care center. Here are some things that I’ve heard people are sending to the foster mothers:

Scarves
Perfume
Make-up
Jewelry

Some of the waiting parents have also sent letters with their packages. However, most foster mothers are not going to be able to read English. There has been some buzz about using on-line translators. I worry about these on-line translators because they often translate word for word without taking different sentence structures into account. If you want to write something in Hangul, I suggest that you find someone who is fluent and have them help you.

The consensus is that you should not wrap your gifts and that you should put them in well marked Ziplock bags (the big gallon kind). Customs will unwrap the presents anyway so it’s not worth taking the time and this way you can mark them more clearly.

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