Emergency Ready App

Any update on this? It’s been over a year and the region filtering still doesn’t work. The Korean version of the app allows filtering by region, and it works. But not the English version. Please please fix. This is pretty useless to me because when I get an emergency alert in Korean for my city, ideally I would open this app and see the translated message. But despite setting the geographic region correctly, the app shows me ALL emergency alerts in the whole of Korea. It’s nearly impossible to identify the ones I want.

The automatic translations from korean to English are horrendous. The app is useless if all it’s feeding me is a string of indecipherable English nonsense.

The whole point is supposed to be to provide non-Korean speakers with reliable information, but the auto-generated translations are so bad, they’re laughable. At times incomprehensible. You’re much better off taking a screenshot of the original Korean emergency alert and running it through google translate. It’s an extra step, but you have a better chance of actually getting a clear understanding of what it says.

This is really helpful for ex-pats who don’t understand what their phone is saying when you get an alarm (which by the way you can turn off so it doesn’t wake you up at three in the morning to tell you there was a 3.1 earthquake 15 minutes ago). It also has a way to call 911 and different emergency sites and the embassy.

Four stars because this is a sorely needed service. Minus one star because there is a notification badge on my home screen for this app and there is no indication in the app itself what it means or what I can do to clear it out. Hopefully future versions will iron out the kinks.

This app is now very useful. Those annoying (scary) emergency alerts from the government are translated in English.

No one knows this app exists. Why? Perhaps due to the lack of marketing. But, at least the app should mention Korea somewhere in the title or description.

I really like that the alerts I get notifications of are only for the areas I select. However, if I miss the notification and go into the app to search for it, I have to comb through every alert for the whole country. Even adding a search function would be really helpful.

This app is a great replacement for those phone emergency alerts. Some great things: 1. Can specify areas of interest. So you can get emergency alerts related only to your neighborhood, or other location, or both, etc. Good when family or workplace are spread out. 2. Respects phone mode settings So if phone is silent or vibrate, these alerts come silently or by vibration. No more blaring loud sounds in public 3. Better translations Previously the foreign language translations of Korean original messages was bad and sometimes incomprehensible. Now they use Google auto translation and they’re much more clear. 4. Alert history If you accidentally swipe away an alert, there’s a list of previous alerts to consult. That list is all alerts nationwide which sometimes makes it difficult to find yours but still it’s a good resource. Overall the app provides a good features set. I’m glad it is available and multilingual. Thank you.

Terrible programming. Slow response times. Bad interface. Incorrect English. A true disaster!