Comments on: Our South Korea Travel Tech Guide: Apps, Payments, Staying Connected, & More

By: Dave Dean

Dave Dean

In reply to Joe M. It doesn't, unfortunately, and I don't know of any plans to change that in the near future. It's a bit surprising to me, but I don't know the details of the underlying technology to have an idea of how difficult a change it would be.

By: Joe M

Joe M

Thanks for the helpful post. Is there a digital/mobile version of the T-Money card? In Japan we use the Suica card and/or the version in my iPhone wallet. Does T-Money have an equivalent?

By: Dave Dean

Dave Dean

In reply to Gene. Thanks Gene! I've removed the section about luggage trackers from the article because of this change, since they should now work as expected (the Find My-compatible ones, at least).

By: Gene

Gene

Update: the Find My network is activated in Korea now! AirTags and other features that rely on location data should work now.

https://www.apple.com/kr/newsroom/2025/03/apple-brings-additional-find-my-capabilities-to-south-korea/

By: esraa

esraa

Thank you so much for crafting such detailed blogs! I’ve been reading all of your south korea blogs and they have been so incredibly helpful. I appreciate all the attention to detail- no information is too much! Keep up the solid knowledge sharing (:

By: Dave Dean

Dave Dean

In reply to Nethe Ottesen.

I’m not sure it will, unfortunately – when I looked into it, you needed to link it to a local South Korean bank account to authenticate and pay. The article mentions that as well, so I’m not sure that things have changed in that regard.

By: Nethe Ottesen

Nethe Ottesen

This is a very helpful guide, thank you! I looked a little furter into the “pain of paying”, as I dearly hope to awoid pain 🙂
Like the Kakao/Naver vs. Google in navigation, it seems there might be such a thing with payment as well: KakaoPay and NaverPay (vs. ApplePay an GooglePay). And it seem like Kakao has gone all in on gaining those foreign transactions. Read more here:
http://www.koreabyme.com/how-to-set-up-kakao-pay-for-foreigners/

Maybe this will work for me when I visit Korea in September 2024. Fingers Crossed