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crazylemongirl



Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:32 pm    Post subject: post office not accepting cash for bill payments Reply with quote
I just went to pay my phone bill at the post office and found out that you have to open an account to pay your bills there now.

If you do open open account there, you now use a bank book and machine to pay your bills.
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some waygug-in



Joined: 25 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Question

Is anyone else confused by the above post? Are you talking about a bank or a Post Office?

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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not so confusing. The post office operates as a pseudo-bank here.

Sounds like western ways catching up with the Korean banking industry -- pushing folks to use machines rather than tellers. Inevitable, I'd guess, but I enjoy the ease & human interaction of just handing over my bills & letting the woman behind the counter process them. Efficient & friendly.
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fidel



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually, Koreans haven't been able to pay their bills through a teller for several months. You don't need an account as far as I know, you are supposed to use the machine, which doesn't have an English menu, at least the one in my hood doesn't.
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pet lover



Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just hand over all the mail I receive at my place to my boss and he sorts through it to see what is mine, what is his, and what was accidentally stuck in my box and then all of my bills get magically deleted from my paycheck and I get a photocopy of all the bills on one page with the paid stamp on them. It's a wonderful system. Very Happy
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Derrek



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just pay at my bank, which has a machine now. I have the security guard or someone from the bank help me.

I hope everyone does this, so they get sick of it, and they re-program the machines to have English.

I can figure out most of the Korean now, but I just want them to know it's dumb to have ATMs in English, but not these machines too.
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funplanet



Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can also pay by ATM if you want....
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just have my bills set up for direct withdrawal from my account. Easy peasy.
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SuperHero



Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Derrek wrote:

I hope everyone does this, so they get sick of it, and they re-program the machines to have English.

Why should the atm's have English?
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why shouldn't they? There are quite a few non Koreans here and catering to them in small ways like having the option for English (or Chinese, which I've noticed on quite a few ATMs lately) is such a minor thing to make life easier for them. It also takes some of the pressure off of the staff to speak foreign languages.

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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, I have the perfect system. I just hand over all bills, company and personal, to my bookkeeper and she takes care of it. No stress, no mess. Really, it's a great system.








Hmm... wonder how she bought that BMW on her salary, yet the company's been three years in the red.

Damn, I knew there was something wrong with that system! Evil or Very Mad
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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I went into my bank yesterday to do an international transfer & a new guy at the desk spoke quite passable english. Turns out he'd just spent a year in Toronto. 5 years ago you couldnt find a word of english in the banks in this small town -- another sign of the remarkable progress.

Not as much fun though as negotiating the procedure with his cute english-challenged predecessor.
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