Private company

BC Card

Logo: BC Card, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Payment processing company

BC Card (Korean: 비씨카드) is a South Korean financial services company headquartered in Seoul. South Korea's largest payment processing company, it provides end-to-end payment services, primarily to financial institutions, as well as to local merchants through its subsidiary company Smartro; credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards; local brand network operation under the brand of "BC"; card issuing BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) to financial institutions; as well as Internet commerce and mobile payment solutions.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 19, 2026.

Overview

Apr 7, 1982Founded1
  • Industryfinance, payment system1
  • HeadquartersSeocho District1
  • Websitewww.bccard.com
  • Legal formjoint-stock company1

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BC Card (Korean: 비씨카드) is a South Korean financial services company headquartered in Seoul. South Korea's largest payment processing company, it provides end-to-end payment services, primarily to financial institutions, as well as to local merchants through its subsidiary company Smartro; credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards; local brand network operation under the brand of "BC"; card issuing BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) to financial institutions; as well as Internet commerce and mobile payment solutions.2

Products and brands

  • credit card

Listed on Wikidata.1

Global Payment Services

BC Card is a leading company in the Korean card industry and is growing into a global payment company. In 2008, when it established a local subsidiary in China, it launched a partnership with China's UnionPay, a state-owned payment processing company, and launched the BC-UnionPay "China Tong Card." Currently, BC Card is in charge of buying tickets (inbound) of foreign-issued UnionPay card in South Korea, so if a buyer uses a UnionPay card issued in China, the buyer's receipt will be stamped with BC Card.

Brand

BC Cards are branded credit cards and check cards (aka debit cards).

BC South Korean domestic card

BC Global (treated as Diners Club/Discover outside Korea, credit card (all issuers), check card (Issued by Wooricard, SC Bank only))

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BC Visa

BC Master/Maestro

BC JCB (Credit card only)

BC CUP

BC AMEX(Credit card only)

From Wikipedia’s article on BC Card, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Apr 7, 1982Founded Founded1

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