Jimmy
Last time i was in South Korea, both my bank and mastercard were informed. Also a client in back in Sweden had asked me if i could find a brand new super camera from Canon there, because it was several months shortage worldwide. So, i happen to find it. It costed about 5000 US $ with the extras he wanted. So i told him to transfer money. He did. I then called bank and told them im gonna make a big purchase in South Korea. I then call the card center at mastercard and tell them the same thing, that tomorrow bla bla..
I have always only relied on my card there , never had cash. Best exchange rate is the ATM. So i buy the camera the following day. 1 hour later my card is blocked.
We were in the middle of Seoul, and lived in Gwangju thats like 4-5 hours busride. Cant even take the bus home. Have to make tons of phonecalls and finally they solve it.
About 4 days later, we go to the supermarket to do some bigger shopping, they also have nice clothes there so u easily buy more then you need. So imagine the embarassment when we are through with everything at the cashier, i swipe the card and its blocked again.
It took a while to solve but the embarassment was pretty shit.
When i came back home to Sweden i called them up and demanded compensation for their idiocracy. And guet the answer that these are all automated security measures that are in place to protect ME. Haha... so i said, who did it protect, me or YOU? It all ends with a formal forgiveness, And a week later they sent 5 cinematickets in the mail. lol
Is it no-go to get a bank acc with Bank of china?