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7 Helpful Travel Apps For Seoul Visitors

How would you find the ways in a completely unknown place? How would you find a taxi or a bus to get around places? Well, there are many mobile applications which you can download for free and make your trip a lot easier and more comfortable. Here are a few best travel apps for Seoul visitors.

1. Subway Korea App


Seoul’s subway lines are no less than a maze and as a visitor, you can easily lose your way. Subway Korea is the best app to avoid getting lost in the absolute maze of subway. It provides arrival time of each train and the approximate travel time from one place to another. You would also be guided completely about the location along with the map. This app also runs without the internet connection.

2. Naver Map App



When in Seoul or anywhere in Korea, Naver Map would be the most accurate and reliable navigation application for you in finding your ways around to the best restaurants, the malls or any other place you that you would like to pay a visit. You can also download maps for offline use. It also works well for visiting DMZ, but may already have a guide for that.

3. Mangoplate App


Seoul has a variety of great food for you, which you wouldn’t like to miss. But, how would you find out the best restaurants around? With Mangoplate! A great app that provides all the information about the best restaurants and their special cuisines, location, timings along with the customer reviews and ratings.

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4. Kakao Taxi App



Ain’t Uber a really helpful app for traveling in Seoul? Well, you can get an Uber in Seoul too but with a different name i.e. “Kakao Taxi”. It is a fast, cheap and a convenient app which you can get at your exact location within minutes with just a single tap.

5. Waygo Translator App 


Obviously, you won’t be able to understand Korean if you are a tourist without having any translator around. To help you out in those situations, Waygo translator provides accurate translations from Korean to English. You can either type the sentence or can simply take the picture of the sentence or word which you need to get translated.

6. AirVisual Air Quality App


Air quality can get really poor and reach an unhealthy level in Seoul which could get dangerous for you. In order to protect yourself from unhealthy dust particles, download this app to get notified beforehand the air quality gets worse and it also provides the forecast for the upcoming days.

7. Looks App


No tour is complete without taking tons of pictures. Adding to your knowledge, Koreans are very much concerned about their good looks. In order to keep up with the people you would have to download Looks app which provides amazing filters and latest makeup trends. The app also tells that which products you can use to get the filtered look in real life as well.

Nowadays, traveling has become easier with these new applications which guide you perfectly throughout your tour. So, pack your bags and travel Korea, specially DMZ and Seoul.


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