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Peter Jackson
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:44 am Post subject: Can you change coins at the banks? |
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| I have a whole bunch of coins and was wondering if I can exchange them for notes. I know the banks in Canada will, providing they are rolled. Can you even buy coin rolls in Korea? Or am I just stuck with coins. I would like to exhange them as they amount to a considerable amount of money...possible? |
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crystal
Joined: 04 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| most banks should have counting machines which you can just pour your coins in and it counts it up, not sure what the procedure is but just go into your branch. At my branch the coin machine is beside the bill pay machines. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| Sure you can, and you don't even have to roll them. In most places you can just bring them to a teller. At KB locations, there's a machine that you dump the coins into, and it sorts and counts them for you, but you'll need a KB card to make it work. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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There are 2 kinds of sorting machines.
Big banks can handle all your coins jumbled together, smaller banks require you to separate them by denomination.
Either way, just bring them in in bags.
Meanwhile, I've finally gotten pretty good at spending coins at about the same pace I acquire them. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| I've finally gotten pretty good at spending coins at about the same pace I acquire them. |
I'm religious about not spending my coin as it makes for a good wad of cash once I fill up the jar.
My coin jar used to be one of the dill pickle jars from COSTCO and was good for around 200,000 when full. But I've changed it to the animal cracker jar. I dumped in a full pickle jar and it only filled about 10-15% of the jar. Once I get that baby full I'll have some big coin, if I can even move the jar.
the picture below shows the jar with over 200,000 won worth of coins
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Peter, Peter, Peter.
Your friendly neighbourhood frog is here to help.
I'm pretty sure I saw a change-counting machine in Kookmin Bank, across from the McDonald's. Go to the bank (during normal working hours), and look in the back left corner. It's the machine on the left.
You have been served.
In a nice way. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Peter, Peter, Peter.
Your friendly neighbourhood frog is here to help.
I'm pretty sure I saw a change-counting machine in Kookmin Bank, across from the McDonald's. Go to the bank (during normal working hours), and look in the back left corner. It's the machine on the left.
You have been served.
In a nice way. |
nothing like a nice kermo serve for sure.
For real dude... save up all your coins till you do something stupid like blow all your money in Itaewon or somethe equally foolish... then change them all in and you have food money for the month.. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Dan The Chainsawman wrote: |
| For real dude... save up all your coins till you do something stupid like blow all your money in Itaewon or somethe equally foolish... then change them all in and you have food money for the month.. |
or use it like I do to fund computer hardware purchases and other geekery. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Peter, Peter, Peter.
Your friendly neighbourhood frog is here to help.
I'm pretty sure I saw a change-counting machine in Kookmin Bank, across from the McDonald's. Go to the bank (during normal working hours), and look in the back left corner. It's the machine on the left.
You have been served.
In a nice way. |
Just in case anyone was unaware, "Peter" and I live in the same city-- I'm not actually taking the piss. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| Dan The Chainsawman wrote: |
| For real dude... save up all your coins till you do something stupid like blow all your money in Itaewon or somethe equally foolish... then change them all in and you have food money for the month.. |
or use it like I do to fund computer hardware purchases and other geekery. |
Geek purchases are definitely allowable. My next big geek purchase is going to be the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook 2, and Monsterous Manual. Just have to find a way on to the Yongson army base to get into the book shop.
or...
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Some banks claim only to take coins on certain days. Nonghyup did (the one I go to, anyway). I just pretended I didn't understand, and the girl sighed and rolled her eyes a bit and took all my coins.  |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: |
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It's a bank, coins are money, it's their business. I've had to sort my coins before by hand
and they point out the one or two I missorted, but they eventually get it all right.
They may be Korean, but they're not all retarded. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Never once had a problem on any day I have been to the bank. Of course the last time I went I had a tank top on and my gym shorts which exposed all four of my tattoos and a really hairy back that must have either scared them all to death or revolted them into making a quick job of it. |
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