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[PBRstreetgang21]

I just moved to Incheon and I live in Yeonsugu, I must have gone to 6 different ATMs and I cant seem to find one that works. My debit card isnt a Visa or Mastercard its just a regular one with the little Cirrus and Star logo's on the back. Is there a specific one that will work or am I just SOL?

[Samantha]

try KEB and look for the words "international ATM" in English on a little card/sticker in the ATM cubicle thing. Cirrus/Star is one of the cards that works on them but they can be few and far between. Where I live at the banks within a 10 min walk (quite a few really) there's only one bank with one ATM that will work with my US ATM card.

[piscin]

There's one in the basement of Bupyoung Station.

If you use it, when it asks you what type of card it is, press credit card (even though it's not)

[Samantha]

Sorry correction to what I said earlier, it's not an International ATM but a global ATM that you should look for, or at least that's what KEB calls it. Though the one I go to doesn't seem to want to read my card, it worked the first time I tried it but now it doesn't want to recognize it.

[PBRstreetgang21]

Thanks for the help, on my way into Seoul yesterday I stopped in Bupyeong station and tried that you mentioned and it worked. So thanks for the heads up.

[chevro1et]

I waked probably 10 miles yesterday down the streets of Busan looking for an ATM that would accept my Canadian ATM card (PLUS network). KB*, no go. KEB, CitiFinancial, BusanBank, still no go. Came upon the Choryang 'shopping disstrict for Foreigners'. Walked into 7-11. Nondescript ATM machine, with a little icon in the lower right hand corner that says 'Foreign Card'. Push that button, swipe away. Money. Literally.