VISITKOREA : Official Guide 4+
한국관광공사
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Travel Korea with the VisitKorea app! The VisitKorea app provides information on beautiful tourist attractions, delicious food, comfortable accommodations, pleasant shopping centers and exciting festivals in Korea to help tourists have the most satisfying trip ever. In addition, it provides all the information tourists may need when traveling to Korea such as finding directions and public transportation information, and emergency contacts to make their trip more convenient and safe.
All about Korean Tourism
News and travel columns are updated regularly to provide special travel information about Korea. Check them out to learn more about current and upcoming trends on tourist attractions, restaurants, accommodations, shopping center and festivals. In the Travel Basics menu, you can find useful information such as visa and entry requirements, emergency contacts, operating hours of public agencies and tourist police.
Record you itinerary
Record memories of your trip in Korea. This new feature will help you manage your schedule and remember your trip in the form of a timeline. Simply save your arrival and departure information, your planned itinerary, and add photos and memos.
Korean tourism information recommended automatically
Are you in Seoul now? Then, the VisitKorea app will guide you to the most satisfying tourist areas in Seoul. The VisitKorea app recommends information such as tourist attractions, good restaurants, accommodations etc. according to the user’s preference by using big data. (You must register additional information in the settings menu to receive customized recommendation for tourism information.)
Maps to find your way around Korea
Use the directions menu in the map to find your way to your destination while traveling in Korea. You can find the route via public transport, taxis, or on foot. In addition, the subway menu provides subway route maps and subway directions for Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju and Daejeon.
As a reliable travel guide provided by the Korea Tourism Organization, VisitKorea provides information for tourists who are planning a trip to Korea or are currently traveling in Korea. Users can feel like they are in Korea even when using the app at home. Korea Tourism Organization is working hard to improve the VisitKorea app service for an enjoyable trip to Korea.
What’s New
Version 6.0.7
minor bug fixed
Ratings and Reviews
Needs feedback from users to be more helpful!
I travelled to Seoul for five days and on my iPhone had this app, Jihachul (for subway maps - free), and a Lonely Planet ebook chapter for Seoul.
Visit Korea gives a free overview of tourist sites. It has some pictures and information about popular places. To be more useful I think that some improvements can be made:
1. Allow bookmarks for the subway maps. I wanted quick access to the Seoul subway map, and it currently takes four clicks to find this.
2. Offer detailed info about using subways. Jihachul is a free app that provides exact routes from one station to another (including how to transfer between lines), and maps of exits that I could select. Visit Korea is just a picture of the entire subway map for each city.
3. Add a section on how/where to access free wifi in Korea. Foreign visitors who do not have 3G/4G phones in Korea want this information. When outside my hotel, I could not use online features like the "Nearby" map that may have been very good, because I had no wifi.
4. Include some basic Korean phrases that visitors may need (hello, goodbye, thank you, ask for the bill at restaurants). This could have sound to help visitors to say these phrases.
Thank you!
Great ideas for things to do but...
This app is great for ideas and things to do. However, one of the most difficult aspects with traveling in Korea is actually finding you destination. While this can be fun and challenging, I'm a little over it - I travel with a baby these days! It would be a much better app if it was more interactive. For example, instead of simply saying get of this bus, head to this university and take this train, it would be much more useful if there was a map of each place attached. My Korean is poor but I can ask for directions etc. For those that can't speak Korean at all, maps would be so helpful. Like they say, a picture tells a thousand words!
Auto switch off when on, please fix.
Good apps however after the recent updates, there is no way to run the app. It auto switch off after 3 seconds. Happen both with iPhone 4s and iPad 4th Gen. Before update it was fine. Please fix.
App Privacy
The developer, 한국관광공사, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Korea Tourism Organization
- Size
- 57.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © Korea Tourism Organization
- Price
- Free