SGD to KRW today, and KRW to SGD

Few people get the mid-market rate: most banks, cards, apps and money changers give you a little less won on each dollar, or fewer dollars for your won, and keep the difference. On S$1,000 changed today the gap runs from about ₩15,649 with Wise to ₩57,232 with OFX. Every way, side by side · Change here or in Seoul?

Your amount, every way to change

Put in how much you are changing, either way. Won can be typed as Korean price tags show them, like 45,000원 or 4.5만원. At a money changer, add the rate on its board (in Singapore, S$ for ₩1,000; in Seoul, won for S$1) to see what it costs you against the mid-market rate, Wise and Hana Bank in Seoul.

Change

S$ to ₩ ₩ to S$

Amount

₩

How much you are changing. In won you can type a price as Korean shops write it, like 45,000원 or 4.5만원.

Rate on a money changer’s board (optional)

As the board shows it: S$ for ₩1,000 (Singapore boards, e.g. 0.96), or won for S$1 (Seoul boards, e.g. 1,040). We read which it is.

Start from an example

A Seoul weekendS$500 to wonA week in KoreaS$1,500 to wonA price tag₩45,000 in S$Won left over₩100,000 in S$A bigger sumS$10,000 to won

₩1,000 in Singapore dollars

S$0.94 at the mid-market rate

₩1,000 in Singapore dollars, each way to change, most first

Way	You get	Against mid-market
Mid-market rateThe mid-market rate: MAS’s rate at noon, 6 Nov, with no margin. The yardstick for the rest.	S$0.94	–
Hana Bank, Seoul (S$ notes)Buying S$ notes with won at Hana Bank’s posted rate, ₩1,074.53 for S$1, 7:17 pm, 9 Nov (Seoul time).	S$0.93	−S$0.01 (−1.06%)

Each ₩1 on the rate is S$0.00 on this amount. At a money changer, type the rate on its board into the box above to see how it compares.

Rates and fees as each provider publishes them; rows marked “about” use the mid-market rate in place of the provider’s own rate, which we don’t read. Not a quote: the provider’s own screen at the time you change is what counts. How we work it out

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S$1,000 in Korean won today, each way

Wise’s rate and fee, DBS’s posted rate and Hana Bank’s posted rate for S$ notes read today; the other providers as Wise’s public price comparison collected them for sending S$1,000 to an account in Korea, at the times shown (a price collected earlier may have changed since; Wise is one of the providers compared). “About” rows apply the published fee to the mid-market rate, because the provider’s own rate isn’t published in a form we read. The gap in brackets is in S$. Rates read today can come out a little above the mid-market rate, which is MAS’s rate at noon, 6 Nov, when the won has moved since. A Singapore money changer sets its own rate: type it into the converter to see where it falls. No one pays us to list any of these, and there are no affiliate links.

Change in Singapore or in Seoul?

What a Seoul bank pays for your Singapore dollars today, read from its own rate page every hour, and the Singapore board rate you need to beat it.

What a Seoul bank pays for your S$ notes. Hana Bank in Seoul posts its rates for the Singapore dollar many times a day. At 7:17 pm, 9 Nov (Seoul time) it paid ₩1,032.61 for each S$1 in notes: S$1,000 comes to ₩1,032,610, ₩28,961 less than at the mid-market rate. It sells S$ notes at ₩1,074.53, so changing S$ to won and back at Hana costs about 3.9% of the money.

Hana Bank’s posted rates, as its own exchange rate page shows them (notice 622 of the day), read 6:17 pm, 9 Nov Singapore time. A branch can give a better rate than the posted one, and Seoul’s private money changers set their own. Against the mid-market rate of ₩1,061.57 (MAS’s rate at noon, 6 Nov).

The Singapore board rate to beat

To give you more won than Hana Bank in Seoul, a Singapore money changer’s board must show less than S$0.9684 for ₩1,000 (that is, more than ₩1,032.61 for S$1). Type its rate into the converter to see the gap on your amount. A board showing S$0.9420 for ₩1,000 is the mid-market rate today.

So: change here, there, or not at all?

• Cash for the first day. A Singapore money changer whose board beats the rate above gives you more won than Hana Bank’s posted rate in Seoul. Type its rate into the converter to see its gap in won.
• Day to day, a card with no foreign exchange fee, paying in won, costs about the mid-market rate. A Singapore bank card adds up to 3.25%.
• Won left at the end is cheapest to spend in Korea: changing it back, at a Seoul bank or in Singapore, loses the margin a second time. Won to S$ shows how much.

Going to Korea: K-ETA, the arrival card, cash and tax refunds

• No K-ETA needed, until 31 December 2026. The Korean Embassy in Singapore: “Singapore passport holders are exempted from K-ETA till 31 December 2026” (Embassy of the Republic of Korea). The K-ETA site gives the period as “From January 1, 2026 (Thu) to December 31, 2026 (Thu) (KST)” (K-ETA). You can still apply, for ₩10,000 (about S$9.42). The K-ETA site: “those who wish to receive benefits from K-ETA approval, such as not having to submit an arrival card, may apply for K-ETA; in that case, the application fee will be charged”. Apply only on k-eta.go.kr; other sites charge more.
• Then the arrival card. Korea’s e-Arrival Card site lists, among those who must declare, “Citizens of countries temporarily exempt from the K-ETA”. On it: “No fee required” and “Complete and submit within 3 days before arrival in Korea” (e-Arrival Card). “Those who have submitted the e-Arrival Card for the Republic of Korea do not need to fill out a paper arrival card”. “As this is a separate system from the Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA), please be sure to avoid any confusion.”
• Pay in won, not S$. A shop, hotel or ATM may offer to charge your Singapore card in S$. That is Dynamic Currency Conversion: “The exchange rate is set by the merchant or its DCC provider”, in DBS and POSB’s words, and DBS and POSB still add 1% on a credit card and 2.8% on a debit card (DBS and POSB).
• Carrying cash. Korea Customs Service: “if you enter the country with foreign currency, KRW notes, or checks above USD 10,000 or the equivalent in total, you must report it to the Customs.” And: “The Certificate of Foreign Currency Declaration cannot be issued after entering Korea (after leaving the immigration)” Leaving again: “if a non-resident leaves the country with the means of foreign payment within the amount carried at his or her recent arrival, he or she does not need to report it.” (Korea Customs Service). Leaving Singapore: “If you move physical currency and bearer negotiable instruments (or CBNI) exceeding SGD 20,000 (the prescribed amount) or its equivalent in a foreign currency into or out of Singapore, you are required to make a Cash Movement Report.” (Singapore Police Force).
• Tax refunds. From 1 January 2024, Korea.net reported limits of “KRW 1 million for an individual purchase eligible for an immediate tax refund and KRW 5 million in combined purchases”, and the smallest purchase cut “to KRW 15,000 from KRW 30,000” (Korea.net). ₩15,000 is about S$14.13 today, and ₩1 million about S$942. Korea Customs Service: “Duty-free items must be taken out of the country within 3 months from the date of purchase for drawback.” Bring the “passport, certificate of sale of goods, and purchased goods (unopened, unused)” (Korea Customs Service).

Each quoted word for word from the page linked, read 9 Nov 2026, and re-checked on our update schedule, including before the K-ETA exemption’s end date. This page doesn’t give visa, customs or tax advice.

Is today’s SGD to KRW rate good?

It depends which way you are changing: a rate that is good for a trip to Korea is bad for changing won into S$. Here is today’s rate against every working day of the past year, five years, ten years and since 1981.

Changing S$ into won (a trip to Korea, or money sent there): at ₩1,061.57 for S$1 (MAS’s rate at noon, 6 Nov), your Singapore dollars buy more won than on 12% of days in the past year, 65% of days in the past five years and 82% in the past ten.

Changing won into S$: it runs the other way. Your won buy more S$ today than on 86% of days in the past year and 35% in the past five.

We don’t forecast exchange rates, and no one can say where this one goes next. What the past shows: over the past year S$1 bought between ₩1,034.13 and ₩1,201.92, a gap of ₩167,797 on S$1,000. Changing part now and part later evens out the highs and lows; the rate alert can tell you when S$1 buys the most won in a year. Won for S$1 each working day, MAS’s noon rates (the Fed’s, crossed, before 2003).

KRW to SGD: Korean won to Singapore dollars

For won left over from a trip, money from Korea, or a price you want in S$. The converter above works this way too: choose “₩ to S$”.

• Selling won back in Singapore. A money changer buys won at its own buying rate, which gives you fewer S$ than the mid-market rate. Put its “we buy” rate into the converter (choose “₩ to S$”) to see what it costs you. At the mid-market rate, ₩100,000 is S$94.20.
• Or before you fly home. Hana Bank in Seoul sells S$ notes at ₩1,074.53 for S$1 today, so ₩100,000 buys S$93.06.
• Keeping it for the next trip. Won kept as notes earn nothing, and their worth in S$ moves with the rate: the chart shows how far that has gone.
• Wise doesn’t offer won to S$, and DBS posts no rate for buying won, so neither is in this direction’s list.

Korean prices and banknotes in S$

Korean prices are written in won, often in 만 (ten thousands). What each note and a typical price come to in Singapore dollars today, and the amounts Korea sets in won.

Korea’s banknotes in S$ today

Korean prices in S$

At ₩1,061.57 for S$1 (MAS’s rate at noon, 6 Nov). “On a bank card” adds DBS and POSB’s fee of up to 3.25% to the mid-market rate. Tap a price to load it into the converter. Korean prices are often written in 만 (ten thousand): 4.5만원 is ₩45,000, and the converter reads it that way.

Korea’s set amounts, in S$ today

These are set in won (or US$), so what they come to in S$ moves with the rate.

Each from the page linked, read 9 Nov 2026 and re-checked on our update schedule. In S$ at the mid-market rate; US$ at the ECB’s rates for 6 Nov.

Every common amount

S$ to won at the amounts people take on a trip or send, each way, worked out the same way as the converter.

Won you get for each amount

In won. Tap an amount to load it into the converter. Wise’s fee is a fixed part plus a share, so it costs a little more on small amounts; a bank card’s 3.25% and Hana Bank’s rate are the same share at every amount.

S$ to won and back: quick tables

At the mid-market rate of ₩1,061.57 for S$1 (MAS’s rate at noon, 6 Nov). What you get from a bank, card or money changer is a little less: the converter shows how much.

SGD to KRW since 1981

Korean won for S$1, every working day since April 1981. The chart opens on the past year; “Since 1981” shows the crisis of 1997.

MAS, noon, each working day US Federal Reserve (H.10), crossed (before 2003)

1 year5 years10 yearsSince 1981

Tap or hover on the chart to read a value.

1,0201,0401,0601,0801,1001,1201,1401,1601,1801,2001,220

Jan 2026AprJulOct

Year by year

Korean won for S$1: the average, fewest and most for each year, from every working day. A plus means S$1 bought more won than the year before.

The other 36 years, back to 1981

Year	Average	Fewest	Most	On the year before
2016	840.45	805.15	882.61	+2.1%
2015	822.93	801.28	852.51	-1.0%
2014	830.88	808.41	856.90	-5.0%
2013	874.81	831.26	919.12	-3.0%
2012	901.62	873.36	930.23	+2.3%
2011	881.12	860.59	918.27	+3.8%
2010	849.02	801.28	893.66	-3.2%
2009	876.63	830.56	1,022.49	+13.1%
2008	775.43	648.51	988.14	+25.7%
2007	616.79	602.05	649.35	+2.6%
2006	601.09	591.37	612.75	-2.3%
2005	615.23	602.41	638.98	-9.1%
2004	677.15	633.71	703.23	-1.0%
2003	683.78	663.57	713.78	-2.0%
2002	697.90	668.33	726.14	-3.2%
2001	720.77	689.41	753.61	+9.9%
2000	655.66	635.92	731.74	-6.6%
1999	701.95	669.44	724.90	-16.1%
1998	837.09	704.24	1,038.86	+31.0%
1997	639.06	578.35	1,171.90	+11.9%
1996	570.95	548.00	609.13	+4.7%
1995	545.28	532.87	556.51	+3.1%
1994	528.67	502.42	546.38	+6.0%
1993	498.87	477.72	523.60	+3.6%
1992	481.63	460.64	496.35	+12.8%
1991	426.79	403.85	472.12	+8.7%
1990	392.52	358.13	421.91	+13.6%
1989	345.62	339.04	359.92	-5.3%
1988	364.82	350.82	397.25	-7.0%
1987	392.28	382.07	405.31	-3.4%
1986	406.16	393.00	422.18	+2.4%
1985	396.76	369.47	428.20	+4.7%
1984	378.84	374.46	388.23	+3.2%
1983	367.13	355.61	377.07	+7.4%
1982	341.96	333.87	354.06	+5.8%
1981	323.35	314.10	342.67	–

MAS, Exchange Rates (S$ per 100 Korean won, as of noon), from 2 January 2003; before that, the US Federal Reserve’s H.10 noon rates for the won and the S$ against the US$ (won per S$1 = won per US$ ÷ S$ per US$), from 13 April 1981. Every day: download the CSV.

The record, and 1997

Since 13 April 1981, S$1 bought the fewest won, ₩314.10, on 3 August 1981, and the most, ₩1,201.92, on 5 June 2026. Today it buys ₩1,061.57. That record is higher than the peak of the 1997 crisis, ₩1,171.90 on 23 December 1997.

1997: the Asian financial crisis

In our record: on 1 October 1997 S$1 bought ₩596.09; by 23 December 1997 it bought ₩1,171.90, 97% more in under three months. A ₩10,000 meal cost S$16.78 before the crisis and S$8.53 at its worst for the won. By the end of 1998 S$1 bought ₩730.47.

What it means in dollars. Ten years ago, on 4 November 2016, S$1 bought ₩825.08. A ₩100,000 hotel night cost S$121.20 then and S$94.20 today, at the mid-market rate and before any change in the hotel’s own price. The other way, ₩10 million in savings was worth S$12,120 then and S$9,420 today.

Worked out by Numbers.sg from the daily rates above (MAS’s from 2003; before that, the US Federal Reserve’s noon rates for each currency against the US$, crossed, which can differ a little from MAS’s noon rate on the same day). Past moves don’t say where the rate goes next.

The won against the S$, the US$ and the yen

Over five years the won buys less of the S$ and the US$, and more of the yen. A fall against every currency points to the won itself; a fall against some and a rise against others points to those currencies moving too. The table is the ECB’s figures; it does not say why.

Against the S$ Against the US$ Against the yen

5 years

Tap or hover on the chart to read a value.

708090100110120130

20222023202420252026

The ECB’s euro reference rates for the won, the S$, the US$ and the yen, crossed, 8 Nov 2021 to 6 Nov 2026 (ECB). A minus means each won buys less of that currency than at the start. The Bank of Korea’s own statements are on its website.

The SGD to KRW rate on any date

For an expense claim, an invoice or a receipt from a trip: the rate for any working day since April 1981.

Date

Any day from 13 April 1981. At a weekend or holiday we show the working day before.

Thursday 6 November 2025

₩1,107.42 for S$1

₩10,000 was S$9.03. S$1,000 was ₩1,107,420; ₩1,000,000 was S$903.00.

MAS’s rate as of noon (the US Federal Reserve’s, crossed, before January 2003) for the day. For every day in one file, download the CSV. An expense claim or tax return may ask for a particular rate (a bank’s, or an official one): check which.

DBS’s won rate

DBS posts a telegraphic transfer rate for selling won, and none for buying them. 6:00 pm, 9 Nov: it sells won at ₩1,039.50 for S$1 (2.08% under the mid-market rate of ₩1,061.57), so S$1,000 sent from DBS comes to ₩1,039,501 before any fee.

From the data behind DBS’s foreign exchange rates page, with DBS’s own time on it. DBS: “Log in now to retrieve actual rates for your transaction. Higher transaction amounts may qualify for even greater discounts.”

At a money changer

Singapore changers price won their own way, most of them per ₩1,000, each with its own rate that moves through the day, so we don’t list them. At the counter: read the board, put its rate into the converter, and see what it costs against the mid-market rate, Wise and Hana Bank in Seoul.

• Which number to read. Changing S$ for won, the changer sells you won: read its selling rate for KRW. Changing won back, read its buying rate.
• How it’s written. Singapore boards usually show S$ for ₩1,000 (a number like 0.96); some show S$ for ₩100 (0.096). Seoul boards show won for S$1 (like 1,040). The converter takes any of them.
• The number to beat. Under S$0.9684 for ₩1,000 gives you more won than Hana Bank in Seoul pays for S$ notes today. Why
• Compare on the same amount. A rate a little better on paper can come with a minimum amount or apply to large notes only: ask before you change.
• Licensed or not. Money-changers in Singapore are licensed by MAS under the Payment Services Act 2019. Check a changer’s name in MAS’s Financial Institutions Directory.

Why the rate moves

MAS steers the Singapore dollar against a basket of currencies, not against the won alone. “MAS manages the Singapore dollar against a basket of currencies along a typically appreciating path or crawl within a policy band.” (MAS). In its October 2026 statement, MAS kept the rate of appreciation, width and centre of the S$NEER policy band unchanged (MAS, 14 October 2026).

The won’s side is not MAS’s. MAS’s policy is about the S$ against its basket; what happens to the won is a matter for Korea and the Bank of Korea, so SGD to KRW moves with both. Over the past year S$1 bought between ₩1,034.13 and ₩1,201.92, a swing of 16.2%. Over the same days US$1 cost between S$1.2611 and S$1.3077, a swing of 3.7%: the won swung 4.4 times as far against the S$ as the US dollar did. The won against the S$, US$ and yen shows whether a move is the won’s own.

Common mistakes

• “The rate on Google is what I’ll get.” A search page shows a market rate, much like the mid-market rate at the top of this page. A money changer, a Seoul bank and your card each give their own; the table at the top lines them up on S$1,000.
• “Changing in Seoul always beats Singapore.” It depends on the board. The rate to beat works out, from Hana Bank’s rate today, what a Singapore board must show to give you more won.
• “I need to pay a website to file my arrival card.” Korea’s e-Arrival Card site says no fee is required. Its words.
• “The e-Arrival Card and K-ETA are the same thing.” The e-Arrival Card site says they are separate systems. Which one you need.
• “Paying in S$ in Korea is simpler.” The shop or ATM then sets the rate, and your bank may still add its fee. Pay in won.
• “SGD to KRW going up is bad.” A higher number means each Singapore dollar buys more won: good for a trip to Korea, bad for changing won into S$. Is today’s rate good? shows both.

From the providers’ own pages, the Korean Embassy in Singapore, the K-ETA and e-Arrival Card sites, Korea Customs Service, Korea.net and MAS, linked in each section; the figures are this page’s, worked out from them.

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Questions people ask

How we get these rates

• The main rate is MAS’s own figure for S$ per 100 Korean won, which MAS gives “as of noon” each working day (MAS, Exchange Rates), turned into won per S$1. When MAS’s site can’t be read, the main rate is the European Central Bank’s: its euro reference rates for the won and the S$ give won per S$1 for the same day (ECB). The page says which one it is showing. Both are read every hour from 9:15 am to 6:15 pm; at weekends and on holidays the rate stays at the last working day’s.
• Before 2003: MAS’s daily won series starts in January 2003. The days from 1981 are the US Federal Reserve’s H.10 noon rates in New York for the won and the S$, each against the US$, crossed (FRED); labelled as such in the chart and the CSV. They are taken at a different time of day from MAS’s. On one day the Fed’s figure is more than 4% off the days either side and reverses the next day (on 5 Jan 1998): it is left out as a likely error.
• Check: MAS’s and the ECB’s rates for the same day must agree within 1%, or the job flags it for a person to look at.
• Hana Bank: its posted rates for the Singapore dollar (cash both ways, transfers both ways, its base rate), with its own notice number and time, as its exchange rate page loads them, read every hour with the rest and kept day by day. Branches can give better rates than the posted ones.
• DBS: its posted telegraphic transfer rate for selling won, with DBS’s own time; left out once it is four days old.
• Wise: Wise’s public price comparison (wise.com), read every hour, at S$100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000. Wise’s fee is a fixed part plus a share of the amount; we fit both to Wise’s four quotes to work out the fee on any amount. Other providers’ prices are as Wise collected them, for S$1,000 only. Wise offers no won to S$.
• The won against the S$, US$ and yen: the ECB’s euro reference rates for each, crossed, every working day for five years (ECB), read once a day.
• Cards: DBS and POSB’s published fees (3.25%, DBS and POSB); YouTrip’s (YouTrip) and Trust’s (Trust) own pages; Revolut Singapore, Personal Fees (Standard), version 0.8.1. Card rows use the mid-market rate in place of Visa’s or Mastercard’s own rate, which we don’t read, so they say “about”.
• Rules quoted (the Korean Embassy in Singapore and the K-ETA site on the K-ETA exemption; the e-Arrival Card site; Korea Customs Service on cash and tax refunds; Korea.net on the refund limits; the Singapore Police Force on cash) are word for word from each one’s own page, read 9 Nov 2026, and re-read on our update schedule.
• A new rate is refused if it is outside ₩150 to ₩3,000 for S$1, or if the main rate moves more than 5% from our last read within four days; the page then keeps the last good read and says when it was.
• Numbers.sg is not connected to any bank, card, app or money changer named here; no one pays us, and this page has no affiliate links. It is not advice on when or how to change money. The converter runs in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere. See our disclaimer, how we get our numbers and corrections.

Changes to this page

1. 9 Nov 2026

   New: SGD to KRW and KRW to SGD. Today’s won rate, both ways; what S$1,000 gets through Wise, DBS, cards and others; a converter that reads Korean price tags (45,000원 or 4.5만원) and a money changer’s board written either way; what Hana Bank in Seoul pays for S$ notes each hour, and the Singapore board rate that beats it; Korea’s banknotes and prices in S$; K-ETA, the e-Arrival Card, cash and tax refunds in the words of Korea’s own agencies; the rate on any day since 1981, the record, 1997, and the won against the S$, US$ and yen. See today’s rate