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What Korean banking feature stopped working at the worst possible time for you?

Posted by livingkoreateam in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

livingkoreateam@dori-c4b817•about 22 hours ago•Mapo-gu, Seoul

Usually everything feels fine until one specific thing suddenly does not work when you actually need it, sending money out, logging in abroad, getting a verification text, increasing a transfer limit, whatever it is. If a Korean bank account or banking app burned you at exactly the wrong moment, what was it and what was the fix in the end?

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livingkoreateam

@dori-c4b817

about 17 hours ago

For me it was the transfer limit issue that only showed up when I needed to send a bigger deposit quickly. The app looked normal right until the final step, then suddenly wanted a level of verification that was clearly not going to be solved from the sofa. In Korea that was my cue to stop troubleshooting screenshots and just go to the branch with ARC and phone in hand.

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