Gear S3 smartwatch gets Samsung Pay support in Korea

After six months of its launch in Korea, Samsung’s Gear S3 smartwatch is finally receiving support for Samsung Pay in the country. Samsung launched Gear S3 and S3 Frontier in its parent country last November.

The delay in the roll out of Samsung Pay to Gear S3 smartwatch was due to a long review of the service by local credit card firms. Now with its launch, Gear S3 users will be able to connect to Samsung Pay installed on their smartphones using their smartwatch and make payments via it without the need to pull out their cell phones from their pocket.

Samsung Pay will support Samsung, Hyundai, Hana, and Lotte cards, with support for KB Kookmin Card rolling out later this month.

Read: Samsung Pay released in UAE, Sweden with early ascess in Hong Kong, Switzerland

Samsung also announced that it will soon launch Samsung Pay Mini, the payment’s version for non-Samsung smartphones in Korea.

via The Investor

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4 Comments

  1. Samsung pay is something I really find useful,just waiting for it to arrive to India. With demonetization , digital payments are becoming common and this would be the next big thing here,now that its coming with the gear s3 it would make transactions really quick and no need to whip out your card from the wallet ; )

  2. awesome!! digital payment has become a day to day task right now and here in India after the demonetization, digital payment has seen a peak of development that’s why people were so excited when samsung launched their samsung pay in march and to think that it can come in smartwatch too is amazing, hope to see it soon in here!!

  3. Samsung pay is something I really find useful,just waiting for it to arrive to India. With demonetization , digital payments are becoming common and this would be the next big thing here,now that its coming with the gear s3 it would make transactions really quick and no need to whip out your card from the wallet ; )

  4. awesome!! digital payment has become a day to day task right now and here in India after the demonetization, digital payment has seen a peak of development that’s why people were so excited when samsung launched their samsung pay in march and to think that it can come in smartwatch too is amazing, hope to see it soon in here!!

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