Originally Posted by
shinjukuflyer
Was in Seoul last week and went on the JSA tour. Travel agency quoted me ticket price in KRW and ran my credit card, but when they gave me the receipt to sign it was in USD. Sneaky. Didn't even give me the option upfront. I promptly asked them to charge me in KRW instead so they reversed the original charge. I was worried that the reversal would go through as KRW whereas the initial charge was in USD so I'd eat some currency conversion fee anyway, but both charges were in fact in USD so exactly canceled each other out.
First time this has happened to me.
First time seeing non-compliant DCC in Korea for me...
Maybe it had the options but they just chose the wrong one for you.
I had the same thing happened on me at Lotte Market where a lady hit USD for me in milliseconds before I can react... The difference was several cents so I let it go.
But anyway, I haven't dealt with individual vendors like travel agencies so I can't be so sure. The smallest I've dealt with were small restaurants which all turned out to be pretty fine.