Samsung Pay now has over a million users in South Korea

26 October, 2015
Over a couple of months after it was launched in the company's home country of South Korea, Samsung Pay is being used by more than a million users there. The milestone was announced by the tech giant yesterday.

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  • 27 Oct 2015

JD, 26 Oct 2015He's a blind fan-boy. Dont expect much from people like himYou're the blind fanboy, there is less than 1/6 the population and it only works on limited devices.

If you wanted to make the comparison you would need to look at the proportion obviously. You brought up Apple pay and failed to do so, what does that make you?

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    • 26 Oct 2015

    Anonymous, 26 Oct 2015Initial release was US only. They didn't launch in the UK ... moreHe's a blind fan-boy. Dont expect much from people like him

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      • 26 Oct 2015

      Anonymous, 26 Oct 2015Worldwide....NO! just the US (last year). 3 days after it went life they had 1 million active US users!

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        • Ibx
        • 26 Oct 2015

        Duh!, 26 Oct 2015Technically that was based on a region.This one was based o... moreInitial release was US only. They didn't launch in the UK until months later. So I'm not sure what you're getting at.

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          • Ixj
          • 26 Oct 2015

          AnonD-356282, 26 Oct 2015Would be interesting to see stats from the US on how many t... moreI agree. I'm interested in this MST technology also.
          And when are they rolling this out to the rest of the planet?
          Anyone can do NFC payments via credit card apps but it's very limited based on the availability of tap pay consoles right now. MST will make my wallet redundant! Yey! (That is - if it works of course!) ;)

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            • 26 Oct 2015

            JD, 26 Oct 2015In contrast,,, it took Apple 3 days to reach 1 milion activ... moreTechnically that was based on a region.This one was based on one country.Soo your still down a point with that apple pay stuff.

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              • 26 Oct 2015

              JD, 26 Oct 2015In contrast,,, it took Apple 3 days to reach 1 milion activ... moreWorldwide....

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                • M60
                • 26 Oct 2015

                [deleted post]korea population man

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                  • t7X
                  • 26 Oct 2015

                  1 million times LAG

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                    • JD
                    • nGt
                    • 26 Oct 2015

                    In contrast,,, it took Apple 3 days to reach 1 milion active users milestone after it was launched......

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Ibx
                      • 26 Oct 2015

                      Remember when Samsung used to have their people hold up these numbers for Galaxy S and Note sales numbers. They haven't done that in a while...

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                        • vV5
                        • 26 Oct 2015

                        Fighting Samsung!

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                          • 26 Oct 2015

                          Would be interesting to see stats from the US on how many transactions are made via MST.