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Buying a Transit Card in Korea: The Card Is the Easy Part

You land at Incheon, clear immigration, and start looking for the counter that sells transit cards. Stop looking: nothing you can board at that airport needs one. Buy the card once you are in the city, at a GS25 or a CU, and bring won in cash to load it. What you are really buying is a set of fare rules, and those rules only start paying you back once you are riding in town. Nothing at Incheon needs the card Search the airport's own facility directory for 교통카드 (gyotong-kadeu, transit card) or 티머니 (T-money) and it returns nothing at all. T-money's own page does list the staffed bus ticket office at Incheon among its sellers. You just have no use for one yet: there are two normal ways out of that airport and neither one asks for a card. The airport railway's All-Stop train leaves from the transport centre on B1 at both terminals. From To Seoul Station Terminal 1 4,750 won Terminal 2 5,350 won A single-journey card costs 100 won more than t...