Korea (Republic of)

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Korea (Republic of). For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Korea Post website

Please refer also to the Universal Postal Union - online prohibitions search tool

You must not send any item addressed to a country in which the item is unlawful or prohibited. When an item is restricted you must comply with the restriction. Prohibitions and restrictions vary from country to country, and can sometimes apply to items which you may think are ordinary. The information below is provided in good faith, but Royal Mail is not responsible for it, and it should be viewed as a guide only. Specific restrictions and changes may be enforced at short notice, so for clarification please contact the destination country's trade, postal, and customs authorities as appropriate. Business customers are strongly recommended to do this.

Please remember that Royal Mail also prohibits and restricts certain categories of items. For more information visit royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods

Prohibited items

Prohibited products are not permitted in the mail under any circumstances.

• Lithium batteries and equipment containing lithium batteries
• Live animals
• Dried beef products, dried pork products, chicken meat products, sausage, milk products (including aaruul)
• Fruits and plants including plum, pomelo, longan, mango, raw pepper, jujube, seeds. 
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Vegetable products
• Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• Cereals
• Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Organic chemicals
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
• Plastics and articles thereof
• Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
• Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
• Textiles and textile articles
• Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
• Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
• Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles
• Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
• Vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Hazardous chemicals, such as nicotine concentrate or undiluted nicotine solution