payments

Apple Pay support for T-money - used for transit payments in Korea - was announced in July 2025, but did you know tourists cannot use it? You're better off buying a SIM+T-money combo card or eSIM + T-money card online. Buy a card with unlimited data + T-money for

In this example, I will show how paying by Mastercard is the cheapest option between Alipay, Mastercard and Visa when paying in Korea using a credit card that doesn't have foreign transaction fees. MOX is one such card in Hong Kong. Sign up for MOX using my referral

If you want to reminiscence how the early days of non-cash payments used to be, go to Taiwan. It's still a decent amount of cash, stored-value card (EasyCard), and digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay) here and there, combined with LINE Pay which no one outside of Taiwan

There's a reason iPhone is more popular than Android phones in Japan. Aside from user interface design elegance on iOS, iPhones work better with Suica, one of many mobile payment systems in Japan. Suica can be used for transportation (trains, buses, taxis), at convenience stores and retail, as

Many of you have multiple credit cards and know about foreign transaction fees, but did you know Mastercard provides a better exchange rate than Visa the majority of the time? A Nerdwallet study from 2016 have shown that Mastercard beats Visa about 70% of the time. Is that still the