Foreign Credit Card in Korea: What Actually Fails
Korean law makes refusing a card a crime, yet a foreign credit card in Korea still dies at some counters. Here is exactly where it fails, and why.
Korean law makes refusing a card a crime, yet a foreign credit card in Korea still dies at some counters. Here is exactly where it fails, and why.
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