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Kakao Map in English: Good for Buses, and Only Two Languages Deep
Kakao Map does work in English, and its bus tracking is the reason locals keep it. What it does not do is Japanese or Chinese, which decides whether it is your first map app or your second.
14 Sep 2026 · 3 min
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Reading a Korean Address: the Building Number Tells You How Far to Walk
Korean addresses look like a random string until you know that the number is a distance measurement. Learn to read one and you can find a door without opening a map, and you will know why your booking confirmation and your map app disagree.
14 Sep 2026 · 5 min
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Navigating Korea Without Data: Seoul Gives the Wi-Fi Away, and the Password Is Seoul
The premise is half wrong. Seoul runs free public Wi-Fi from about 24,060 access points, including on the buses, and logging in takes one word typed twice. Here is where that reaches, where it stops, and what to do when it stops.
14 Sep 2026 · 4 min
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The Exit Number Is the Real Address: Why Koreans Tell You 6, Not the Station
At a big Seoul station the exits are a block apart and some are across eight lanes of traffic. That is why every Korean venue listing ends with an exit number, and why picking the wrong one costs you fifteen minutes above ground.
14 Sep 2026 · 4 min
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Naver Map in English, End to End
Naver Map works in English the moment you install it — no account, no Korean number. Since October 2024 place pages and reviews come translated, and since 4 June 2026 a passport gets you restaurant bookings and ordering too. Here is the whole ladder.
3 Sep 2026 · 3 min
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Does Google Maps work in Korea? Directions still missing
It finds places and transit; turn-by-turn driving still does not. Install Naver Map or Kakao Map for navigation. Checked end of August 2026.
30 Aug 2026 · 2 min