“Pay at the cafeteria with your mobile phone.” On October 10th, at the cafeteria in the first floor basement of Yonsei Engineering Research Park (YERP) building, researchers took out their mobile phones instead of their credit cards and placed them on the card reader to pay for lunch. A quick payment was possible thanks to a mobile credit card combined with Near Field Communication (NFC) chip inserted in their mobile phones. Yonsei University campus is going ‘card-less.’ Around campus, there is trial testing of NFC (Near Field Communication) Zone. At stores and cafeteria at YERP, you can pay for your coffee or meal by placing your mobile phone on the card reader. NFC is a technology that uses a 13.56 ㎒frequency band transmitting data within a 10cm radius. When a smart phone equipped with NFC function is placed near a card reader, the two devices transmit data and the sum is charged on your credit card. Professor Park Min-yong of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University says, “The current RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system can only read information. However, the NFC system can not only read but also send information. Through this two-way communication, it can provide payment and personal ID services.” As of now, NFC is available at the cafeteria and Maxwell House coffee shop in YERP. Here, you do not need a credit card. You can buy a meal or a drink by paying with your smart phone containing a NFC chip. With continued investment and development of the NFC system on campus, Yonsei will be able to procure NFC-based technology and, if selected as an exemplary model of NFC introduction, become a leading campus in terms of NFC technology in Korea. Park says, “We have signed agreements of mutual cooperation with Woori Bank, KT, SK Telecom and Yonsei University Co-op Goods. The service is only available at YERP at the moment, but by March 2013, we hope to expand it to the entire campus. In the future, NFC payment will be possible anywhere on campus as well as other services, including library access and attendance check.”