Apple Pay has launched in South Korea today with 1 financial institutions.

Unfortunately users could only use AP at a limited number of merchants as most merchants’ terminals supports only Magnetic Stripe & Chip only.

Hopefully more FIs in Korea would offer AP which creates more users. When the number of AP users increases, I reckon merchants would gain some confidence in investing in a NFC-Capable Terminal!

Out of curiosity, I got a new HSBC credit card and I tried adding it into Apple Pay. Interesting to note that the only way to authorize it was that I needed to contact the HSBC Contact Center. Did you all face the same thing as well for those who use HSBC credit card?

Out of curiosity, I got a new HSBC credit card and I tried adding it into Apple Pay. Interesting to note that the only way to authorize it was that I needed to contact the HSBC Contact Center. Did you all face the same thing as well for those who use HSBC credit card?

Not with HSBC Malaysia. But I was told that sometimes the attempt to enrol a new card into Apple Pay may be flagged by fraud protection system and therefore you have to call in to verify. Otherwise it could be because some of the info provided during set-up is incorrect (Expiry Month/Year or the CVV).

call the cs,i have same problem with my maybank card for samsung pay before

When will HSBC & WISE Debit Card enable for Apple Pay 😩 Waited for a long time 😮‍💨

Coming soon?

Coming soon?

Coming soon?

Maybe is new card?

Not really in my opinion. The message and picture very clearly points the hint to a new payment method.

Thanks, ended up calling the HSBC CS and they explained they need to key into a global system which would take a couple of hours to get it validated. Whilst having lunch earlier the validation got through and managed to pay using Apple Pay for the HSBC card.

Already using it

Debit card?

hsbc - credit card only
wise card

Try this. I yet to try too. Found in Reddit by /u/deepfried_mind
I will use a UK address.

Workaround:
Issue a digital card from a different country (basically change your address to another country, create a digital card, change it back to your actual address). The newly created digital card can be added to apple wallet for contactless.

Change your country under your profile on the top right corner -> Edit, once you've changed your country, the next digital card you make will be the country your profile is set in. Worked for both myself and a friend of mine, we changed to the UK.

Note that your physical card will still be the same, ie. Wave & Apple Wallet incompatible, only the digital card will work.

Edit: Just tested. Confirmed working.
Easy don't need to bring physical card out overseas in the future.