SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 63 percent of South Koreans have used banking and payment services via smartphones as a growing number are getting familiar with the tech device in their everyday lives, a central bank poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 2,597 adults, conducted by the Bank of Korea (BOK) last [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 70 percent of customers have a positive view of the Seoul city government’s smartphone-based payment system, but a fewer number actually plan to use the service, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey by the Korea Foodservice Industry Research Institute involving 600 residents in Seoul, 67 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Lord Mayor of London has called for increased cooperation with South Korea on fintech and green finance, the government here said Tuesday. Peter Estlin said South Korea and Britain should facilitate the new FinTech Bridge, a bilateral agreement launched in 2016 to make it easier for the two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to ease a rule on recharging credit at mobile payment platforms as it seeks to promote the financial technology sector, an official said Thursday. Currently, people in South Korea can recharge up to 2 million won (US$1,782) at a mobile payment platform, such as Kakao Pay [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoPay Corp., a South Korean mobile payment platform, surpassed 20 trillion won (US$17.6 billion) in annual transactions last year for the very first time since its launch in September 2014. Transaction volume jumped by more than five times compared to the previous year (US$3.35 billion). Analysts say that KakaoPay [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A new smartphone-based payment service, aimed at relieving small business owners of the burden of settlement costs, was launched on a trial basis in Seoul on Thursday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it began the trial service of the “Zero Pay” service ahead of its formal launching after March [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans use online banking services more than 100 million times a day via computers or smartphones, exceeding 53 trillion won (US$46.9 billion) in transactions, as an increasing number of customers are going online to check bank statements, wire cash, and get a loan. The Korea Institute of Finance [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Pay announced on Monday that it will be adding a ‘sprinkle’ service using its money-wiring function. The ‘sprinkle’ service allows a user to share a certain amount of money with their friends in a KakaoTalk chatroom. The user first selects the number of recipients and the amount of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60,000 member stores of popular franchises across South Korea will be participating in the new government-led Zero Pay program. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Busan Metropolitan Government, and South Gyeongsang Provincial Office signed an agreement with 26 franchises on Monday to implement the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Mobile payments at South Korean convenience stores have more than doubled this year thanks to the greater use of smartphones and the expansion of mobile settlement services, a market player said Tuesday. South Korea’s top convenience store chain CU said the number of so-called easy mobile payments at its [...]