South Koreans' credit card spending has increased sharply overseas. 

According to the Bank of Korea on Tuesday, South Koreans swiped overseas last year for goods or services totaling a record high, 14-point-three billion dollars.
 
It is seven-point-eight percent more than the amount of money they spent abroad with credit cards in 2015.
 
Compared with five years earlier, South Koreans’ overseas spending on credit has jumped 65-point-nine percent from eight-billion-619-million dollars.
 
The increase in overseas spending is partly attributed to the growing number of South Koreans traveling abroad.
 
According to the Korea Tourism Organization(KTO), 22-point-38 million South Koreans left the country last year, up 15-point-nine percent from a year earlier.