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[Drew345]

I just had my third T-money card go bad. This is over 6 years here, so the average of 2 years per card is not too bad. But it is so frustrating because you just loose all the money on the card (about 10,000 won). I used it to get on a bus, and 5 minutes later, getting off the bus, the card was dead, never to work again. The station agent told me I could get the issue price of 2500 won refunded from an LG store, but the money on the card is just lost.
Anyone use T-money with their bank card? Is that an ATM, debit or credit card? Do you have to charge it with T-money? or does it just charge (debit) your account every time you use it? Can you transfer with that system?
I am looking for something more reliable than those T-money credit card sized cards. I have debit and ATM cards (no Korean credit card).
Thanks

[Forever]

[Slaps]

My wife uses her KEB debit card as her t-money card with no issues at all. I think it's great that it just comes straight out of your bank account, meaning that you never need to top it up like normal t-money cards.

I was told when I opened my KB account and given my debit card that the government will not allow foreigners to have bank cards that can be used as t-money. I hope someone will prove me wrong and the bank clerk was just spouting b.s.

[Forever]

[Drew345]

Thanks for the good advice. I'll take a look at the cell phone attachment, but when I tried things like that in the past I just didn't like things hanging off my cell phone. But thanks and I'll take a look for sure.
When you use T-money on a debit card, can you transfer bus to subway? If you transfer, dies it deduct 100 won more from your bank account? Is there a service charge on top of that 100 won debit when you transfer.
I'll go check with my bank tomorrow if my debit card can be T-money enabled.
Thanks

[crossmr]

I've got an SK phone with T-Money on it. I've been using it for hmm.. almost 1.5 years. It hasn't failed, but every now and then it seems to "shut off" so I have to turn on the t-money app on the phone and it'll scan again.
I'm not really sure what that is all about.

[vastrei4]

Does any foreigner have a DEBIT card with T-money, not a credit card?

Follow up question...does anyone have a credit card with woori?

[Forever]

[pkang0202]

You can get a refund on the T-Money. You go to a convenience store and they'll give you an envelope where you write in your name/address/bank account info. They mail the card off to T-Money and you get your balance deposited into your bank after a few weeks.


Also, having a T-Money on your bank card is beneficial. Those purchases are tracked. At my school, a student stole someone else's T-Money card. It was a card tied to a debit card account. The school caught the culprit by seeing where the charges were coming from, going to the store and getting the CCTV footage.

So, if you get your wallet stolen, and someone is dumb enough to use your T-Money card on your credit card, chances are very good you can catch the thief.

[toonchoon]

[Ruthdes]

I love my KEB credit card with T-money. It's so much more convenient than my old t-money card. It just sits at the back of my purse and scans through it. There is no chance of dropping the card because it doesn't come out of my purse. As said before, it adds up and is deducted from my account once a month. I never have to top it up.

The only downside was that I had to put down a 1 million won deposit to get the credit card, and my limit is only 900,000won. The owing amount is taken from my other account once a month, but I go online to pay more often because I spend more than that in a month.

I've never heard about T-Money on a debit card, but it sounds like it's worth checking out Hana Bank and asking for one. Maybe Forever can tell us which branch he/she uses.

[jiyull]

You can get your money back that was on your "no longer working" t-money card.
It happened to me once, I went to a Seoul Metro employee and told him about my problem and he told me to go a GS25 and then when I got there, a clerk gave me a prepaid envelope form to fill out and was told to mail it along with the t-money card...
A week later, I received the money in my bank account that I filled out on the form.

[Savant]

[crossmr]

[Savant]