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Badmojo
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
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 Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: Western Unions? |
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Are there any Western Unions kicking around Gwangju?
Or some other wire company where I can get funds from Canada sent fast?
I recall seeing some Western Unions in Seoul, but none anywhere else. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Go to KB. The one in Itaewon has a Western Union. |
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Badmojo
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: Western Unions? |
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| Badmojo wrote: |
Are there any Western Unions kicking around Gwangju?
Or some other wire company where I can get funds from Canada sent fast?
I recall seeing some Western Unions in Seoul, but none anywhere else. |
Yes, no doubt.
I saw many Kookmin banks are Western Union agents.
Maybe I'll just go to the one in Gwangju.
I guess my next question is, has anybody done this and experienced problems. As in, it taking more than a day? |
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HamuHamu
Joined: 01 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Someone else asked this question yesterday too...
Anyway, go to the Western Union website and choose Korea. It will list the bank names, and addresses for every WU location in the country. There are HUNDREDS of them in Korea....looking at the list I would expect that about 80% of the bank branches here have a WU counter.
If someone at home sends the money online or through the phone, the money is available within 20 minutes of the completed transaction.
To pick up your funds you need to take your passport, and you will be asked a series of questions, including how much money you are expecting to pick up, and I think you have to say the name of the sender. The person who sends it can also request that you say a certain password that they have specified. The sender has also indicated your MOST LIKELY pick-up location (so they would just have to say "Gwangju, S.Korea") and you have 364 days to pick up your money.
It's easy on the receiving end, it's just much more of a hassle to be the sender if you are doing it online or over the phone. The easiest way for the sender to not have to deal with the pain-in-the-arse security methods they have in place, is to go in person to send the money. |
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harpua
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: haebangchon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| hey! does anyone know where i can cash in a travellers cheque on a sunday in seoul?? |
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Badmojo
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| HamuHamu wrote: |
Someone else asked this question yesterday too...
Anyway, go to the Western Union website and choose Korea. It will list the bank names, and addresses for every WU location in the country. There are HUNDREDS of them in Korea....looking at the list I would expect that about 80% of the bank branches here have a WU counter.
If someone at home sends the money online or through the phone, the money is available within 20 minutes of the completed transaction.
To pick up your funds you need to take your passport, and you will be asked a series of questions, including how much money you are expecting to pick up, and I think you have to say the name of the sender. The person who sends it can also request that you say a certain password that they have specified. The sender has also indicated your MOST LIKELY pick-up location (so they would just have to say "Gwangju, S.Korea") and you have 364 days to pick up your money.
It's easy on the receiving end, it's just much more of a hassle to be the sender if you are doing it online or over the phone. The easiest way for the sender to not have to deal with the pain-in-the-arse security methods they have in place, is to go in person to send the money. |
Yes, you're right.
The process is this straightforward.
Password, passport, and a few questions.
Thanks. |
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| HamuHamu wrote: |
...To pick up your funds you need to take your passport, and you will be asked a series of questions, including how much money you are expecting to pick up, and I think you have to say the name of the sender. The person who sends it can also request that you say a certain password that they have specified. The sender has also indicated your MOST LIKELY pick-up location (so they would just have to say "Gwangju, S.Korea") and you have 364 days to pick up your money.
It's easy on the receiving end, it's just much more of a hassle to be the sender if you are doing it online or over the phone. The easiest way for the sender to not have to deal with the pain-in-the-arse security methods they have in place, is to go in person to send the money. |
FWIW, the KB I use insists I provide the transaction control# which is on the sender's receipt. This is something I never needed to provide when using WU in the states. |
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HamuHamu
Joined: 01 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| hari seldon wrote: |
FWIW, the KB I use insists I provide the transaction control# which is on the sender's receipt. This is something I never needed to provide when using WU in the states. |
As soon as I read those words "tranaction control number" the memory popped right back into my head - when I SENT money to a friend in dire-straights, I remember the WU people telling me that it would be absolutely necessary for that number to be repeated and I remember worry that my friend picking up the money would not check her email to get that number from me.
When she went to the bank, she didn't need to use it.....only the above mentioned proof of identification, name of sender and expected amount of money. Then again, she was in Vietnam, and so maybe they were less strict on the controls there? But you're right, and I forgot about that part.
Sorry! |
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