The Greatest Invention in My Life : 'Smart Card'
These days, almost everyone who does not own a car has a smart card. The most widely used smart card is called T-money, which stands for Transportation money. The card only costs about 300 won, and we can use it forever once we keep the money charged on it. It is easy to charge the card, since we can find a charging machine without difficulty. It saves money by getting a transfer discount. we can take a bus or subway and transfer up to five times without paying an additional fair. It is very useful when a bus or subway does not offer a direct route to the destination. Recently, we have been able to use T-money just like a checking card. Many convenient stores, bookstores, vending machines and even MacDonal's accept T-money as cash. When more companies cooperate with T-money, we might be able to use it like real cash. Also, it provides a transportation service in other cities besides Seoul. It means we can use the card almost everywhere in Korea. Without the smart card, it would be inconvenient for us to get a ticket every time we get on public transportation.
Thankfully, the smart card has made our lives much easier, faster and cheaper!
In this site, we can see more how the smart card is used in our life. There are so much information about card, and these show that smart card is not only for transportation. If you check this site, You will save more money.
These are not used nowadays.
Isn't T-money card cost of 3000 won?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I think good idea about transferation system of korean transportation too. However, we should be cafeful when we leave the transportation. If I don't touch my card to the machine, money is gone in vain. This is a weak point of transferation system.
I completely agree with your opinion! This is becuase I use the subway everyday to get to school. Do you know how uncomfortable it is when I forgot to bring the T-money card? Crap~ lol.
ReplyDeleteT-money is like my ipone! Also, I knew that our T-money system is the best around the world, so people in other countries come to Korea to learn the system. How proud it is:) Anyway! I enjoyed your posting a lot! Thx!