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[Canucksaram]

Hi, folks.

Do most Korean bank branches have coin counting machines? I have three years of Korean coins that I want to turn into paper money.

Advice or helpful suggestions?

[Old fat expat]

Yeah, put em in a bag and take it to a bank.

sit around for 20 minutes while the machine grumbles and grinds.

collect your money. spend on wife.

easy as. sweet.

[Lazio]

Most banks do have those machines. Even if they don�t they will count it manually.
It�s best to go to a bank where you have an account. You don�t need to wait at all just leave your coins there and show your bank booklet. They will count it and deposit onto your account on the same day.

[coralreefer_1]

Save yourself some time and seperate the coins by value. The ones at my bank at least dont seem to be designed to funtion well with mixing coins. There is a button to push to select which coin you want rolled up (500won for example) while all the others get dumped back to the bucket, often times jamming up the machine.

[faeriehazel]

Yeah we had to separate ours before we took them to the bank. Also our local bank only did coin separating on a certain day of the week, so you might want to check.

[atwood]

I had a friend who had so many coins that they told him he had broken the machine and would have to come back the next day to finish.

I think they decided they had more important things to do than count coins all day.

[CrikeyKorea]

Make sure you go in once beforehand because they often have specific times and days to do it, i.e. monday isn't good, nor is between 12-2...