Best Credit Cards in South Korea — Compare 29 Cards
Every credit card we can verify as issued in South Korea — 29 cards from 9 banks — with the minimum salary, annual fee, interest rate and salary-transfer rule each bank publishes. Filter them below, or use the guided finder.
Best credit cards in South Korea — our picks
One card per job, chosen by a stated rule, with the number that wins it. No bank holds two slots while another qualifies.
You do not have to move your salary to this bank.
Chosen by: Bank does not require your salary to be transferred to it, then the lowest minimum salary. Picked from 26 qualifying cards.
View on samsungcard.com Opens Samsung Card's own page for this card
Airport lounge access for KRW 30,000 a year.
Chosen by: Publishes airport lounge access, then the lowest annual fee. Picked from 9 qualifying cards.
Go to hyundaicard.com Hyundai Card's site — this card is not linked directly
At 15% a year this is the cheapest published rate we hold for this market — it only matters if you revolve a balance.
Chosen by: Lowest published monthly interest / profit rate in this market. Picked from 26 qualifying cards.
Go to ibk.co.kr Industrial Bank of Korea's site — this card is not linked directly
Headline cashback of up to 1.5% — check which categories it applies to before you assume it covers everything.
Chosen by: Highest published headline cashback rate. Picked from 10 qualifying cards.
Go to lottecard.co.kr Lotte Card's site — this card is not linked directlyCompare all 29 South Korea credit cards
Figures are as each bank publishes them. 0 of 29 cards state a minimum monthly salary, 20 state an annual fee, 26 state an interest or profit rate and 26 state whether a salary transfer is required. A dash means the bank does not publish that figure — not that it is zero.
Default ranking: cards are ordered by how much of the decision they let you make — how many of the four numbers (minimum salary, annual fee, rate, salary transfer) the bank publishes, then how many benefits are documented, then user rating. It is not a paid placement and it is not alphabetical. Use the sort links in the table header to rank by fee, rate or salary instead.
Showing 29 of 29 cards.
Every figure comes from the issuing bank's own published terms, stored per card. Country attribution uses the product's own market, not the bank's branch footprint, so a multinational's Hong Kong catalogue never appears here. Interest and profit rates are annualised figures as published; a few banks quote a monthly rate instead, so confirm the basis with the issuer before you compare two cards on rate alone. 9 of these 29 cards link straight to the bank's own page for that card; the rest link to the bank's site or to our card record. We do not have an application relationship with most of these issuers and do not pretend to. Verify the current terms with the bank before you apply.
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More about credit cards in South Korea
The 29 cards compared above are every credit card we can attribute to South Korea itself, from 9 issuing banks — a card is counted here only when the product's own market and the issuing bank agree, so a multinational's catalogue from another country is never folded in. Figures are in KRW as published by each bank.
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Which credit cards have no annual fee in South Korea?
LOCA LIKIT 1.2 (Lotte Card) are among the 1 cards in our South Korea data with a zero or waived annual fee.
What is the best cashback credit card in South Korea?
We track 3 cashback cards in South Korea. Samsung Card taptap O from Samsung Card publishes: cashback on everyday spend. The right one depends on where you actually spend — the finder above ranks them for your profile.
How does the card finder pick a card?
It scores every card we hold for South Korea against your salary, your biggest spending category and whether you want cashback, miles, no fee or a Shariah-compliant card, then shows the top five with the reasons for each.