Originally Posted by
zyxlsy
Dude, funny you should bring this up. My wife was all shopping non-stop when we were in Korea this Feb and Apr. So I went out and did some experiments on ATMs. My conclusion is, using Korean ATMs won't result in the extra charges, but foreign ATMs like Citi will.
This is on UnionPay cards of course. Maybe it is different when Visa/MC are brought into the game?
But I think the charge was like 3000? Because I recall me thinking "$3"...
Well, I guess Visa/MC is a different story!
When I landed at ICN my first stop was the Shinhan ATM in arrivals - it wanted a charge so I tried the KB ATM a few steps over and the same story!
In town I also tried Citi and KEB machines and pretty much concluded every Korean ATM was going to take me for a ride.