Korea Tourist Card: Which Card Is Actually Called That?

Last verified August 25, 2026

Korea Tour Card, Tmoney Travel Card, WOWPASS, Korea Travel Card, Climate Card: the names run together, and the one people search for is the one that stopped being sold. This page is a name map — what each name refers to, what its issuer charges, and where the categories differ.

Is the Korea Tour Card still sold?

Tmoney’s Korea Tour Card page answers in one line of Korean: 코리아투어카드는 판매가 중단되었습니다. Sales of the Korea Tour Card have stopped. The page adds that people already holding one keep the same partner-merchant benefits as the Tmoney Travel Card.

The old web address tells the same story: on 2026-08-25 koreatourcard.kr served a domain-for-sale parking page instead of product information.

What Tmoney sells in its place

Two successor cards sit on that same page. The Tmoney Travel Card (티머니트래블카드) costs KRW 4,000. Tmoney sells it at convenience stores and at the staffed bus ticket offices inside Incheon International Airport. The page lists three uses. Public transport nationwide covers buses, subway, taxis, airport buses and express buses. Payment works at Tmoney merchants such as convenience stores and cafes. Partner merchants in tourism, shopping and culture carry special benefits.

The Tmoney Travel Card+ (티머니트래블카드+) costs KRW 6,000 and is sold at convenience stores. It carries the same transport and merchant benefits, then adds two functions Tmoney names as WOWPASS ones. WOWPASS IC payment works at IC terminals nationwide, including shops that do not take overseas cards. WOWPASS balance management means topping up through the app or an unstaffed exchange machine, then withdrawing Korean won at the machine. One card therefore carries two issuers’ functions.

Which cards does the tourism board actually list?

Korea Tourism Organization’s card guide opens with the naming answer: “Tourists in Korea can use four main transportation cards: Tmoney Card, EZL Card, WOWPASS, and Climate Card.”

The split that matters is inside that sentence. Three of the four main cards it names are prepaid cards that charge each ride, and the Climate Card is a pass that buys a period of unlimited rides inside Seoul.

	Tmoney	EZL	WOWPASS	Climate Card, short-term
What it is	A chargeable prepaid card with transfer discounts	A chargeable prepaid card, named with Tmoney in the guide’s four	A foreigner-exclusive card combining transport, shopping payments and currency exchange	Seoul’s unlimited public transit pass, in 1- to 7-day options
Price	KRW 3,000 to 5,000, then load up to KRW 500,000	From KRW 4,000, per the tourism board’s guide	KRW 5,000, per the tourism board’s guide	Card KRW 3,000, plus 5,000 / 8,000 / 10,000 / 15,000 / 20,000 for 1, 2, 3, 5 or 7 days
Where sold	Convenience stores nationwide (GS25, CU, 7-ELEVEN) and Seoul subway information centres on Lines 1-8	Convenience stores nationwide (GS25, CU, 7-ELEVEN, emart24 and others), per the guide	The WOWPASS app, or kiosks at major airports, subway stations and hotels; a passport is required	Sale kiosks in Lines 1-8 stations inside Seoul, and convenience stores near Seoul subway stations
Transit coverage	All public transportation, with transfer discounts	All public transportation, under the same grouping. For payments, credit-card merchants nationwide, with the guide’s listed store exceptions, set out in the EZL answer below; app registration adds phone tagging	A Tmoney feature is integrated into the card, held as its own Tmoney Balance	Inside Seoul, with named stations just outside where you may get off. Airport buses are out, and boarding AREX at Incheon Airport Terminal 1 or 2 is barred
Refund	Cash over the counter, capped by counter: KRW 20,000 at GS25 and 7-Eleven, 30,000 at CU and E-Mart24, 50,000 at a subway station customer centre, 500,000 at T-money Town; the card cost is non-refundable	At convenience stores, only refunds under KRW 20,000 – the guide names no venue for larger balances	Remaining balance withdrawn as Korean won cash at a WOWPASS kiosk	Balance less rides less a KRW 500 fee. Only the latest short-term pass topped up with cash or an overseas card is refunded in cash at the T-Town Customer Center; card-paid and 30-day amounts need a Korean account in your name; the KRW 3,000 card itself is not refunded (stated for normal cards)
Also on the page	Under-18 users register a date of birth at the convenience store for the youth fare	The guide links myezl.com in English, Japanese and Chinese	The same card doubles as a currency-exchange account	Getting off at an excluded station means station staff collect that trip’s fare separately

The EZL figures are the tourism board’s, because EZL’s own English page could not be reached.

The Climate Card column narrows to the short-term passes: Korea Tourism Organization’s guide makes those the only tier available from October 1, 2026, dates the 30-day version’s last recharge to August 31 and its last valid day to September 29.

The lookalikes that are not on that list

The Korea Travel Card is the name closest to the others, and it is a different kind of product. Its site describes a bank-based card managed by Korea’s top banks and card companies, collected at Woori Bank Incheon Airport on arrival, running on Hana Card’s payment network. Its transit function comes from the same two issuers as the prepaid cards: the site states that T-money and EZL work for buses, subways and taxis nationwide. Top-ups happen at subway kiosks or convenience stores, named as CU, GS25 and 7-Eleven, and the site counts 3,742 Woori Bank ATMs plus convenience-store ATMs for cash withdrawal.

Mpass is a fifth name in the same guide, called there a “Foreigner-exclusive Tmoney Card”. It is priced at KRW 15,000 for one day up to KRW 64,500 for seven, Korean won cash only, capped at 20 rides a day, issued and returned at Tmoney Town.

The Discover Seoul Pass is a sightseeing pass rather than a stored-value transport card. Its mobile version supplies a five-day eSIM and carries no transportation-card or prepaid-card function. The association’s entry lists AREX, K Limousine, Seoul Bike and the City Tour Bus among its inclusions, at KRW 49,000 for the five-day Pick 3 Basic Pass and KRW 90,000 for the 72-hour pass.