A tourist mistakenly paid $8,300 for a hotel room, mixing up the currency
If the price was in Korean won, she would have paid only US$37 for one night.
A Chinese woman confused the Chinese yuan symbol with the Korean won when she booked a hotel apartment in South Korea on Airbnb, resulting in her paying 60,000 yuan ($8,300) for one night.
SCMP writes about it.
A woman surnamed Xiao from Jiangsu Province recently sought help online regarding her Airbnb payment.
On October 13, she booked an apartment in Jeju Island through a vacation rental platform for a one-night stay with a friend. When Xiao returned to China, she was shocked to find that 60,904 yuan had been debited from her account.
According to a report from Airbnb, the cost of one night at the hotel was 51,944 yuan. In addition, Airbnb charged her a service fee of 8,000 yuan, a tax of 800 yuan and a fee for…
