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[Yes]

admittedly, i usually don't, but have lately for some reason & twice in the past week found i was shorted, once for 5k. i wonder how many times this has happend & i haven't noticed! possibly a lot!!!

[Qinella]

If by count you mean look at your change as the person is giving it to you and reflexively perform an elementary calculation, yeah.. I usually do. It's usually right. If it's not, I usually don't say anything, regardless who the error benefits.

[VanIslander]

For the big purchases yeah but when paying for something with a man won?

I don't sweat the small stuff.

I certainly never count the coin.

[jlb]

I have a budget every month and sometimes when it's getting down to the wire, I'll count it up and see if I have enough money to go out for lunch or pick up a snack on the way to work or whatever. Sad, but it's better than going to the bank and taking out more.

[safeblad]

dont count it, just take it home and shove it in a jar, i took the jar to the bank yesterday - 8 months of change for me = 11 man won

[Young FRANKenstein]

I don't "check" it, but if the number of bills looks about right, I'll trust that it's right and just shove everything in my pocket. But only in Korea. In Japan, I don't even do that, just straight into the pocket.

Back home, the opposite is true... count everthing down to the penny.

[mindmetoo]

With colored money it's pretty easy to spot right away if you've been given the wrong change. Indeed, when I hand over the money I knew exactly how much I should be getting back. So it's pretty easy to tell if it's light by a certain number of colored 1,000 won notes or missing a whole 5,000 won note.

[OiGirl]

Bills, yes.
Coins, no.

[FXAdam]

I usually count it at the same time the cashier does when they take it out of the till. You can't always see all the coins but bills are pretty easy.