Only 0.23% of foreign residents use mobile ID cards two months after launch - The Korea Times
www.koreatimes.co.kr
Two months after Korea introduced a mobile ID card for foreign residents, only about 4,500 people, or 0.23 percent, have so far obtained one, according to the Ministry of Justice. In its recent respon...

I’m not sure what they expected, not everyone runs and gets a new ARC just because of that immediately.

By chance I got a new ARC about a month ago and I got one which supports the mobile ID, but when I started looking into it how to set it up I couldn’t find a straight forward description, especially not in English. This is why I still don’t have it even though I was low key excited about that possibility.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Oh and in the article it says Sweden offers it too, and while I have a Swedish passport I didn’t even know I could put my ID into my phone either.

  • miseducator@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I rarely use my ARC as it is and it’s not exactly inconvenient for me to carry it. I guess I could go 100% phone and carry no cards, but maybe I’m just old fashioned.

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I do that already. Actually my wife told me just to take a picture of my ARC front and back and show that instead of the real thing, and that worked for every place but the immigration office for the last 4 years.