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Korean MNOs let users add digital national ID card to mobile verification app

By Tom Phillips • 15 November 2022 • Updated 15 November 2022

South Korea Pass mobile verification app on smartphone

Residents of South Korea can now create, store and use a digital version of their national identity card on their mobile device using the Pass verification app that they can then use to prove their age when purchasing age-restricted goods and to verify their identity when signing contracts and other legal documents... More

What's New in Payments

KT introduces ‘mother of all credit cards’

By Sarah Clark • 13 June 2017

KT introduces ‘mother of all credit cards’ — Korea Herald — “Dubbed ‘Clip Card’ the device looks like credit and debit cards issued by financial institutions, but it has a 1.3-inch display on the surface of the card that enables users to register all their cards, which are displayed in barcodes… The KT platform is compatible with all types of credit cards regardless of card companies and financial institutions, and with any operating systems.”

What's New in Payments

UnionPay launches HCE mobile QuickPass in South Korea

By Rian Boden • 28 June 2016

Bankcard association UnionPay International has launched its host card emulation (HCE) and tokenization based mobile payment service in South Korea, enabling its cardholders to pay by tapping their mobile phones. The launch of UnionPay HCE mobile QuickPass is supported by mobile network operator KT and its subsidiary BCcard. More

KT delivers NFC info points to Mobile World Congress

By Rian Boden • 25 February 2014 • Updated 5 February 2019

KT's Tap-n-Go NFC points

The 65 NFC-enabled digital Tap-n-Go Points located around Fira Gran Via for MWC 14 have been produced by KT, the Korean carrier has announced... More

GSMA upgrades NFC Badge validation for MWC 2014

By Sarah Clark • 19 February 2014

Show visitors arrive at Fira Gran Via

The GSMA has partnered with nine carriers to add extra functionality to its NFC Badge service at Mobile World Congress 2014, eliminating the need for visitors to present photo ID onsite... More

Asian mobile alliance promotes NFC with poster campaign

By Karl Dyer • 3 June 2013 • Updated 3 June 2013

A Tap and Get smart poster

The Conexus Mobile Alliance, a regional grouping of mobile network operators, is promoting NFC throughout Asia with a “Tap and Get” smart poster campaign... More

Has NFC missed the mobile payments boat or will the industry rise to the cloud payments challenge?

By Joe Davies • 1 May 2013 • Updated 27 January 2019

In the April issue of Mobile Wallet Outlook the NFC World team examines why NFC is failing to gain traction in the mobile payments market, analyzes the range of cloud-based options available for those seeking to deliver mass market mobile wallets — and sets out in detail how MCX’s barcode and cloud-based wallet will work, when it’s likely to launch and who is already using the same approach today. More

Korean banks launch NFC payments service

By Sarah Clark • 20 March 2013 • Updated 24 November 2023

Sixteen Korean banks have introduced BankWallet, a prepaid NFC payments service that uses a platform developed by interbank clearing house KFTC. SK Telecom subscribers with an NFC phone will be the first to be able to use the new service and KT customers will be added soon. More

GSMA honors KT and SK Telecom for NFC

By Mike Clark • 26 February 2013 • Updated 27 January 2019

SK Telecom and KT

Korean mobile network operators KT and SK Telecom have been named as the winners of the 2013 GSMA Chairman’s Award, the association’s most prestigious honour, in recognition of “their pioneering efforts and leadership in driving the adoption of SIM-based mobile near field communication (NFC) services”... More

Japan, China and Korea to get international NFC roaming

By Sarah Clark • 25 February 2013 • Updated 23 June 2023

China Mobile, KT and NTT Docomo

Mobile network operators in the three countries have agreed technical specifications that will enable consumers to make use of NFC payments and other services in both their home country and abroad. More

Sixty banks and retailers sign up for new Korean mobile wallet service

By Sarah Clark • 12 December 2012 • Updated 6 February 2019

KT’s MoCa combines payment cards, coupons and offers stored in the cloud with a mobile wallet app that allows consumers to make payments at merchants via traditional barcodes, QR codes or NFC — providing retailers with the flexibility to use their prefered choice of POS hardware to close the “last inch” at the point-of-sale. More

Morpho ships NFC SIMs to KT

By Mike Clark • 7 November 2012 • Updated 7 November 2012

Morpho has shipped 500,000 NFC/LTE SIM cards to KT, Korea’s second largest mobile network operator... More

NTT Docomo to take Japanese mobile wallet global

By Sarah Clark • 11 October 2012 • Updated 28 April 2023

MasterCard and NTT Docomo's iD

The Japanese carrier, founder of Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service, has signed a deal with MasterCard that will see its 17m iD mobile credit card holders being able to use a new generation of phones to make payments at MasterCard Paypass merchants in 41 countries as well as at 560,000 Osaifu-Keitai points of sale in Japan. More

NTT Docomo and KT to begin international NFC payments service

By Sarah Clark • 10 October 2012 • Updated 10 October 2012

KT and NTT Docomo

“Docomo and KT plan to share the results of their commercial endeavor with global associations and standardization bodies, aiming to promote the realization of a commercial environment for globally compatible NFC services,” the Japanese and Korean carriers say. More

LG CNS to introduce NFC access control service

By Mike Clark • 18 July 2012 • Updated 4 February 2019

LG CNS tests NFC access control

The Korean IT services supplier has partnered with carriers KT and LG U+ to enable employers to use NFC mobile phones to replace staff ID badges. Additional services such as payroll integration and payments are planned for the future. More

Japanese and Korean carriers to launch cross-border NFC coupons

By Sarah Clark • 13 March 2012 • Updated 4 February 2019

Cross-border NFC coupons

The first international NFC marketing service is to go live on 1 April, allowing customers of NTT Docomo and KT to collect and redeem special offers from NFC posters in both Japan and Korea — and payments and ticketing services as well as the participation of carriers in additional Asian countries are set to follow. More

World Expo 2012 to showcase NFC applications

By Sarah Clark • 20 February 2012 • Updated 4 February 2019

This year’s World Expo in Yeosu, Korea is to include NFC-based payments, food ordering, entrance tickets and parking as well as an NFC shopping wall and access to multilingual information on exhibits and transportation. More

20m Koreans to have NFC phones this year

By Sarah Clark • 3 January 2012 • Updated 4 February 2019

Five million Koreans already have an NFC phone, says mobile network operator KT, and payments for bus, subway and taxi fares are the most popular NFC applications. More

Japanese carriers form NFC consortium

By Sarah Clark • 22 December 2011 • Updated 4 February 2019

KDDI, Softbank and NTT Docomo have formed the Japan Mobile NFC Consortium

NTT Docomo, KDDI and Softbank Mobile have set up the Japan Mobile NFC Consortium with the aim of working together to coordinate the switch from Japan’s existing Osaifu-Keitai non-NFC standard mobile payments system to NFC. More

NFC shopping zone opens in Seoul

By Sarah Clark • 18 December 2011 • Updated 4 February 2019

Banners advertise Seoul's NFC Zone

Korea’s leading mobile network operators, card networks, phone manufacturers and government agencies have joined forces to provide shoppers in Seoul’s busiest shopping district with a wide range of NFC services including payments, couponing, smart posters and digital receipts. More