I sent my friend a "household gift" and he said, "Why don't you send me the shipping fee?"

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Controversy is brewing over a story that a friend sent a coffee table worth hundreds of thousands of won as a housewarming gift, but the friend asked for the delivery fee.

Yesterday (7th), an online community said, "We need to pay for the delivery of gifts for housewives." There was a post titled "vs. You don't have to give it to me."

Author A said, "I have a knife-like friend in front of money for a long time," adding, "My friend got married five years ago, and then I went alone and paid 200,000 won as a congratulatory money. The friend said, "I came to my wedding with my husband two years ago, ate, and paid 200,000 won."

At the same time, he confessed that when he bought a house, he received an oven worth 250,000 won as a housewarming gift.

Mr. A said, "Last week, my friend finally bought a house and asked me what I needed because he was having a housewarming party. Then he sent me a link saying he needed a coffee table for two for 320,000 won."

I went to the site and paid right away, but the problem arose because of the shipping cost.

A friend who received the gift said, "The table is so pretty. "I like it," he said. "But you forgot the shipping fee, right? You can send 55,000 won to this account number."

Mr. A said, "I have to deposit the shipping fee separately to the seller. "There was a phrase that if I didn't do it, I could pay by card or cash at the site (the address where I received the delivery), but I didn't know because I didn't look at it," he explained.

He then said, "On the spot, he paid for the shipping fee and charged me. If you pay 320,000 won for the table and 55,000 won for the delivery fee, it is 375,000 won, he said. "It's not an expensive gift because it's a gift to congratulate you on buying a house, but I'm worried about paying for the delivery fee."

Most of the Internet users who encountered the story said, "I think a friend who asks for a gift and delivery fee is too much." They responded, "Send the shipping fee and block it," and "It is right to pay the shipping fee neatly when giving a gift, but it seems that it is not a friend to be close to."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team