Forgetting your coupons at home will be a thing of the past!

Cell phone users in South Korea have been exposed to the new technology of E-Coupons. Virtual bar-codes that can be presented where applicable to get a discount on a product.

Ryu Mina, a spokeswoman for mobile company SK Telecom said that it will be revolutionary because "people may forget their coupons but always carry their cell phones".

Service provider actually began sending these coupon-messages about six months ago but users saw them as spam and deleted them.