KakaoMap - Korea No.1 Map

The Navi function for driving a car is quirky. It frequently forgets I live on a one way street. It warns me of “sharp turns” that are gentle curves. The voice navigation often tells me to “head toward” and ends the sentence there. The warnings and suggestions for highways exit come late and are unclear. It frequently suggests a very roundabout way home. Sometimes the app switches to full Korean with no warning and there isn’t a clear way to change back to English. The app does mostly function, just seems like it’s on par with an app from ~8+ years ago.

We were in Seoul, South Korea and the maps from this app really helped us get around town. We used public transportation quite a bit while we were there. The app made it very easy to determine which line to take and how to get to the station/bus stop; it even provided info on when the bus/subway would arrive. A must have app if you’re traveling to South Korea.

I was in S.Korea for 10 days. This App doesn’t function if you don’t read Korean. A wasted effort!!!

Even when you set it to English, like 70% of it, including the addresses and all of the instructions are still in Korean

I don’t understand how other reviews are saying this is foreigner friendly. Even if the language is set to English, messages, names of places and search still in Korean. Settings for all Kakao Apps are also not user friendly - for example, I cannot input my credit card because it says I have to unblock pop-ups, but I didn’t say how. This app might be good for locals, but not tourists.

The app is great for foreigners trying to get around Seoul. The maps were accurate. The location of the subway exits/entrances was very useful as well. Don’t expect it to work well for planning ahead if you’re out of the country. A lot of the locations listed were still in Korean but most had translations that helped enough to get by.

The app is SO SLOW. Takes forever to load and the screen is covered in widgets and unnecessary junk. By the time the map loads to check where the approaching bus is going, everyone has boarded and the bus is gone. Then the map loads. Sometimes bus stops will not load at all and you have to load the bus route from another location to force the bus stop to load. 2 stars because it’s useful if you have 5 minutes to wait for loading

when I search for places in english, they don’t show up

This app is NOT ENGLISH FRIENDLY. I’m so confused as to why people say it’s great for foreigners. Unless you can read/type in Korean, you cannot even search subway stations. Instead you have to scan the huge subway map for stations which is extremely inconvenient since the subway system is HUGE.

You’d think that you’d be able to change the language in the app to something else, but you can’t. I give it two stars cause the English that is present is cool, but I’m only trying to read one language at a time.