Gifts

Korean gifts are a bit weird...well the ones that are sold in all shops around holidays are anyway.  Each national holiday all the shops put together gift selections, so generally toiletries or food goods, doesn't sound too weird yet does it?  But the weird thing is what they put in them.  For instance generally the toiletaries are not things like bath salts or skin products or such, they are something like 6 tubes of toothpaste and two bottles of bog standard shampoo.  Or if you want to go down the food route you can get a box a various types of spam, or different cooking oils.  Added to the sheer disappointment anyone who recieves these must feel they are more expensive for the person buying them, than if they were to simply pick up all the same items off the shelf in bulk.  It makes no sense to me, monetarily or in any other sense.