- Smart payment for tolls by credit card, check card, and direct debit payment directly in Tmap, Korea’s no.1 mobile navigation app
Harex InfoTech Inc. (CEO Kyung Yang Park), the provider of the user centric payment shared platform ‘UBpay’, signed a service agreement with Korea Expressway Corporation and Tmap Mobility Co. to provide a toll inquiry and smart payment service for Tmapusers on April 15.
By sharing the UB platform with Tmap, Korea’s no.1 mobile navigation service used by over 18 million subscribers, Korea Expressway Corporation’s toll payment service, currently only provided on the Hi-pass app(powered by UB), will now be offered in the Tmap app.
It used to be that payments could only be made at highway offices or rest areas or via virtual bank accounts, but with the mobile payment service in the Hi-pass app has received great feedback from customers since the service’s introduction, and that use of this service will further expand with its opening on the Tmap service.
The Korea Expressway Corporation will be holding a drawing for customers who use the mobile payment service for a period of one month from April 19 to May 18 in order to inform them of the service and promote its use and various prizes will be given out to winners of the drawing, including 300 gas coupons (worth 30,000 won).
Sang Hun Lee, Director of Road Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Republic of Korea, said “We will steadily expand ‘non-face-to-face payment services’ in order to boost toll payment convenience and strengthen quarantine measures due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).”
Harex InfoTech Inc., by sharing its UB platform on a number of apps including apps for the Korea Expressway Corporation, The Military Mutual Aid Association, the city of Ulsan, and Yoido Full Gospel Church, has provided their partners with valuable non-face-to-face services, including mobile payments, order & delivery, and mobile giving services under their own brand with no additional system development or investment required.
Kyung Yang Park, CEO of Harex InfoTech Inc., said, “We will continue to work with Korea Expressway Corporation to improve toll collection and increase accessibility, and continue to provide various convenient life services, to make this a service that the entire nation loves to use.”
