Namsan · Local

Can I pay cash on the Namsan circulator bus?

Doesn’t work · Official source

The city’s cashless-route list includes 01A and 01B. Accepted card types and charging remain separate checks.

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  • Cashless-route list — Works
What to do

Compare the route number you plan to use with 01A or 01B in the city’s cashless-route list.

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  • Your payment method and date

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What does the evidence cover?

Cash is not a documented payment option on 01A and 01B: both appear in the city’s January 2026 cashless-route list. This verdict concerns cash on those listed routes only.

  • [S196] Official source (KO) · Observed: Not confirmed · Checked:
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Cashless-route list

The January 2026 city list includes routes 01A and 01B as cashless.

 Works · Official source
  • [S196] Official source (KO) · Observed: Not confirmed · Checked:
Your payment method and date

Accepted transport-card types, charging, direct foreign-card tapping and same-day exception handling have not been verified here.

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What should I check next?

  1. Compare the route number you plan to use with 01A or 01B in the city’s cashless-route list.

    • [S196] Official source (KO) · Observed: Not confirmed · Checked:

  2. Prepare a separately verified payment option for that route; the list does not establish which card you can use or how you can charge it.

    • [S196] Official source (KO) · Observed: Not confirmed · Checked:

What are the limits and unknowns?

  • The verdict does not answer whether a foreign bank card can be tapped directly. No boarding or payment test was performed.
  • The source was read remotely; no visit or transaction was tested.

Sources

Official source: Confirmed in an official document or on an official site. Observed is the date the source itself gives for the notice, event or test (Reported, for a report by travellers). Checked is the date we read it. “Not confirmed” after Observed means the source gives no date, and we don’t guess one.

  • [S196] Official source (KO) news.seoul.go.kr Observed: Not confirmed · Checked:

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    Details

    The January 2026 cashless-route list includes buses 01A and 01B.

    Read in the supplied R4B research on 2026-10-19 (Asia/Seoul, day precision): docs/design/round3/research/area-intents-b.md, R4B-N02; research/raw/r4b-sources.json and r4b-transport.json. This implementation made no network request. No field observation was recorded; a publication or update date is not observed_at.

    D3: The responsible institution documents only its own stated scope. No visit, booking, rental, payment or entry was tested.

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