{"id":217,"date":"2026-03-30T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/tec260331001-en\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:27:05","slug":"tec260331001-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/tec260331001-en\/","title":{"rendered":"A First in Korea! Shinhan Card, in Partnership with Mastercard, Successfully Completes &#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217; Real-World Transaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article type-a\">\n<div class=\"original-title\" style=\"font-size:1.4em;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px;color:#333;line-height:1.4\">Shinhan Card Successfully Completes First &#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217; Real-World Transaction in Korea with Mastercard<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main-image\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/tec260331001_01.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0\">Shinhan Card, in collaboration with Mastercard, has successfully completed the first &#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217; real-world transaction among domestic card companies. This marks a significant advancement, demonstrating the practical applicability of artificial intelligence (AI)-based payment technology.<\/p>\n<h2>Successful Real-World Transaction of &#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Shinhan Card, in partnership with Mastercard, has successfully completed a real-world transaction using &#8216;AI Agent Pay.&#8217; This successful transaction is highly significant as it lays the groundwork for the actual commercialization of AI-based payment systems within Korea&#8217;s card industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217; is a system that utilizes artificial intelligence technology to make the payment process more efficient and convenient. Through this real-world transaction, the stability and practicality of this technology have been proven.<\/p>\n<h2>A First Achievement for Domestic Card Companies<\/h2>\n<p>Shinhan Card&#8217;s achievement is drawing attention from the industry as it marks the first successful &#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217; real-world transaction among domestic card companies. This demonstrates Shinhan Card&#8217;s leading role in adopting innovative payment technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Through this success, Shinhan Card is expected to propose new service models utilizing AI technology in the future payment market and contribute to the advancement of domestic fintech.<\/p>\n<p>Shinhan Card has taken the first step towards commercializing an AI-based payment system through its collaboration with Mastercard. This is anticipated to be a crucial turning point, accelerating the digital transformation of the domestic payment environment in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"variant-nav\" style=\"margin:28px 0 0 0;text-align:right;line-height:1.2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en-ko\/tec260331001-enkr\" style=\"padding:8px 14px;border:1px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:10px;background:#ffffff;color:#6d28d9;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.2;text-decoration:none\">English-Korean version<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinhan Card Successfully Completes First &#8216;AI Agent Pay&#8217; Real-World Transaction in Korea with Mastercard Shinhan Card, in collaboration with Mastercard,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[183,184,182,181],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-economy","tag-ai-agent-pay","tag-fintech","tag-mastercard","tag-shinhan-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}