Card BINs issued by banks in South Korea: networks, debit and credit ranges, and the main issuers.
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3,773BINs with a named issuer
120issuers
33%debit ranges
11card networks
The dataset has 4,520 BINs registered to South Korea; 3,773 of them name the issuing bank. The largest share is Local brand with 1,428 BINs; the rest are Visa (811), Mastercard (721), UnionPay (287) and 7 other networks. The card type split is 67% credit (2,513) and 33% debit (1,260).
BC Cards Co., Ltd. is the biggest issuer here with 990 BINs, out of 120 issuers in total, ahead of Shinhan Card Co., Ltd. (570) and Hyundai Card Company, Ltd. (414). 28 banks have 10 or more BINs and their own pages below.
The most common card levels are Personal (576), Platinum (283) and Classic (262). 296 BINs are prepaid or gift products. 674 are marked as business, corporate or commercial.
Issuers with fewer than 10 BINs in the data (no separate page): Citi Bank, Busan Bank, Suhyup Card, Daegu Bank, IBK, Water Supplier, IBK Bank, KB Pay, Samsung Cards, BC Post Office, Travel Wallet Co., Ltd., Korea Post, National Credit Union Federation of Korea, Nonghyup, One, Kona Card, Agricultural True Love Cards, Agricultural True Love, American Express Company, Wooricards Co., Ltd., Citi Cards, NH Investment & Securities, Kyongnam Bank Co., Ltd., One Card, Our Debit Card, Nonghyup Voucher Prepaid, DC Korea, Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, Kyungnam Bank, KT World Pass and more.
Sample South Korea BINs
40 BINs spread evenly across the 3,773 with a named issuer. Look up any other BIN with the BIN checker.
How do I find which bank issued a card from South Korea?
Type the first 6 to 8 digits into the box above or the BIN checker: it shows the issuer, network, card type and country. 28 banks from South Korea with 10 or more BINs also have a page listing all their BINs.
Which card networks are used in South Korea?
By BIN count: Local brand 38%, Visa 21%, Mastercard 19%, UnionPay 8%. 33% of the ranges are debit and 67% credit.
Why do the totals differ (4,520 vs 3,773 BINs)?
The dataset holds 4,520 BINs registered to South Korea, but only 3,773 name the issuing bank; the rest are listed with a network or a processor only. This page counts the ranges with a named issuer.
Can a BIN be turned into a real, usable card number?
No. Numbers generated from a BIN pass format checks but no bank issued them, so real payments are declined. Use your gateway’s sandbox test cards for checkout tests.
A BIN identifies the card network and the issuing institution only. It reveals nothing about an individual card,
cardholder or account, and it cannot show whether a card exists or can be charged. Test numbers generated from a BIN are for
development and QA only and are declined by every real payment system.
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Changes made by Fakecreditcard: issuer, brand and country names re-cased and standardized, spelling variants of the same issuer merged, malformed phone numbers and web addresses removed.
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