Scammed on Danggeun Market? Report to Police, Not 1372

Bottom line: This one's for short-term stayers — under 90 days, no alien registration card yet. (If you're here long-term, see our articles on alien registration and health insurance instead.) If you get scammed in a person-to-person secondhand deal, like on Danggeun Market, you report it to the police cyber-crime system (ecrm.police.go.kr) or call 112 — not the Korea Consumer Agency's 1372 line. If the problem is with a business instead — a delivery app, a shop, a refund they're refusing — that's what 1372's consumer counseling center, or the 1345 Immigration Contact Center, is for.

If you didn't know: 1372 only handles disputes between a business and a consumer — person-to-person fraud isn't something it accepts. Report a Danggeun scam there by mistake and nothing happens while the clock runs, and the money in the scammer's account gets harder to trace and recover with every hour that passes. Before you ever send money, you can check the other party's phone number or bank account on the police's Cyber Cop lookup for prior fraud reports — one check can save you the entire amount you were about to lose.

Verified Nov 7, 2026 · Source: Korean National Police Agency