I’m in Seoul, South Korea looking at the use of mobile technology and RFID.
The first encounter with RFID came only an hour or so off the plane by the Metro ticketing machines, a kind lady showed a mobile phone strap that contained a T Money card:
Within a few minutes I had a charged up T Money card and figured out the over-designed ticket gates. Quite good for a totally new system with new languages and currency.
Later, at a ‘Family Mart’, there was a hastily placed payment terminal that offered payment for mobile phones.
The touch indicator is very HAL-like, I imagine it glows softly red when a payment is made. More to investigate…
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