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nicam · Joined: 14 Jun 2008

I'm outta here tomorrow and have about 25 kilos of change I've collected from various purses and drawers while packing.

What is the code for cashing in change in Korea? Can I just take it to my bank as is and cash it in? What do you guys do with all this crapwon coinage?

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but if I showed up to a bank back home with a jar of assorted change the teller would laugh his/her ass off. It has to be meticulously rolled, which is annoying. Plus the jar is really, really heavy, so I figured I'd ask here before lugging it forever in the swampy heat to the bank in town.

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stevelad_83 · Joined: 13 Oct 2008

Hi,

I live out in the sticks and use Nonghyup bank. My local branch insists I divide my coins into baek and oh-baek won before they accept them. The bank in the next town has a big machine they jut pour the jar into, and it sorts the coins automatically.

I guess it depends on your local bank.

nicam · Joined: 14 Jun 2008

Ugh, I was afraid of that. So they won't bother with the 50's and 10's then? Anyway, that's good to know, I might as well sort it before I head out then. Thanks.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

My bank has a counting machine that you just dump all your unsorted loose change in. After my first two years here I had a little over 400'000원 in change. It took the machine about a half hour to go through it since it jammed occasionally and you couldn't dump it all in at once.

Kikomom · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject:

A couple times a year my mom gives me a sack of change she's collected to take to a certain bank in town that has the sorting machine too. Guess you'll have to find which bank near you will do that.