Originally Posted by
tng11
In town I also tried Citi and KEB machines and pretty much concluded every Korean ATM was going to take me for a ride.
Have you tried Woori machines? Next time in Seoul I will try Visa myself. Seem like a pretty dire situation there...
Originally Posted by
YuropFlyer
That's trully horrible.
Seriously, Korea, ...?
I'll definitely rate you as 3rd world country if you keep this up.. japan might not be much better, but then in China, ATMs never gave me such ridiculous extra charges..
Another reason to visit Beijing and Shanghai, and to skip Seoul.. seriously, what were you thinking? You might gain a few $ this way, but you're pissing off WAY more people..
Shanghai is awesome, but no dude, no Beijing please... Also, China is famous for the forced DCC, right?
(By comparing Seoul and Beijing, I will appraise the Beijing's subway. It is going so slowly, because the system is not designed to handle this much people, so they just slow them down, and add more trains. This way, it is so safe, your know? Even if the second train cannot stop in time, it would only be considered as a fender bender
So safe, no possibility of horrible collisions at all.
Just inhumanly crowded. And you have North Korea style people with red armband and megaphones in the station shouting "get off the train, get off the train, move!", as part of 文明乘车管理员 program...)
Originally Posted by
jamar
Network differences also explain the Japan thing. Some ATMs there will charge for UnionPay but not Visa/MC. A good many will only take UnionPay.
Korea seems to be the reverse. I was never charged extra while using my UnionPay card, but the only MC card I tried was my Citi debit card in a Citi machine and never tried a Visa.
It is definitely worth trying around and learn~
Originally Posted by
moondog
I pull (using my Schwab card) money out of ICBC ATMs at least once a day now, and always end up within 20 basis points of the WSJ rate. Please tell us more about any bad machines you discover.
Hey moondog, does Schwab know how to refund you if the ATM fee is lumped into the total? Say you withdraw 100 CAD = 93.12 USD, and ATM fee is 3 CAD, so the total is 95.92 USD. Have you ever tried this? How would Schwab do with this?