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Best Apps for Korea Travel: 8 to Download Before You Fly

Categories Korea Travel 13 min read
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The best apps for Korea travel come down to 8 downloads, and Naver Map matters most. Google Maps can tell you where things are in Seoul, but it won’t walk you there. A Korean map app, a taxi app and a good translator do that job instead.

Naver vs Kakao: Korea’s 2 Tech Giants and Which Apps to Get

Categories K-Tech & Business 12 min read
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Naver started as a search portal in 1999. KakaoTalk started as a free chat app in 2010. Today the two companies run the maps, taxis, payments, webtoons and messages that shape daily life in Korea, and they’re the main reason Google plays a smaller role there than almost anywhere else.