Public Transportation

T-Money cards can be purchased at ticket machines in subway stations or from convenience stores (CU, GS25, 7-Eleven, etc.). You can only use cash to buy the card at the subway station, but you can pay by card at convenience stores.

Card price: Starting at 4000 won (depends on design)

You can charge your card (with cash only) at convenience stores or at ticket/recharge machines (near the gates) in subway stations.

1. Subway

• Basic fee: 1,250 KRW

2. Bus * if you are paying with cash, please give as exact an amount as possible, as the bus driver can only give change in coins

• • Basic fee for blue/green buses: 1,200 KRW (card) 1,300 KRW (cash)

  • Basic fee for red buses: 2,300 KRW (card), 2,400 KRW (cash)

  • There are additional charges according to the distance traveled after 10 km

You can transfer for free to another bus (cannot be the same number bus as the one you got off from) or subway. You must tag the T-money card on the reader when getting off, otherwise, you will be charged a full fee at the next transit.

You can transfer between buses and the subway up to 4 times. The next leg of the trip must begin within 30 minutes after getting off the previous means of transportation. From 9 pm to 7 am the transfer time is one hour. You cannot transfer from subway to subway for free if you go through the gates and tag out.

• • You must have more than 250 won on your card in order to transfer.

  • If you mistakenly go to the wrong side of the subway platform, you have 5 minutes to go through the gates and to the correct side with no extra fee.

Your student ID card can be used as a post-payment transit card when connected to your Shinhan Bank account.

The money will be automatically withdrawn from your account on a designated date, so make sure you have enough money in your account, or your debit card will be denied access to public transportations

Present your Tmoney card and ask for a refund.

• Places that sell Tmoney cards (ie. convenience stores) can also refund your remaining money

• Refunds do not include the cost of the card

• Service fee of ₩500 will be charged

• Partial refunds are not possible

• The refund is available when the remaining balance of the Tmoney card is not more than 20,000 KRW