SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — BC Card, Korea’s major credit card company, said on November 7 that it has launched a new mobile app called “Wanzhuan Hanguo” (meaning “smart Korea” in Chinese) for Chinese tourists visiting Korea. The app provides useful information for the tourists including Chinese-language maps and GPS services, tourism information, and KT phone [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – BC Card announced on August 5 that it is hosting a “Show off your own app menu” event on its Facebook page until August 11. The BC card application’s main page offers 22 menus arranged in a mosaic form. With the “modify menu configuration” feature of the app, the user [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – While Kakao is scheduled to offer an online credit card payment service next month, it is considering an “Uber-like” call taxi service as well. From September, Kakao, the operator of Korea’s largest mobile messenger service, will begin providing credit card online payment service in partnership with nine card companies including [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 27 (Korea Bizwire) – People once talked about the end of cash with the advent of the credit payment system. In Korea, ever since that time, credit card companies have competed fiercely with each other to draw more customers through diverse benefits such as customer loyalty program points and discounts. Then what’s [...]