Smart Phone App Quick Tips
Tips for using popular smart phone apps in South Korea. Learn how to use transportation apps, navigation apps, the South of Seoul app, and others.
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Nav App Hack: Phones not Address
One of our main goals at South of Seoul (SOS) is to empower our readers and users to explore Pyeongtaek on their own and share the things they love with others. This sounds easy, except that the language barrier and maps issues make this far harder than it should be. How in the world do you quickly and easily share a business location when you can’t read anything or talk to anyone? We have the hack for you! All you need to know are numbers. This is possibly the best-kept…
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SOS App Quick Tips: Transportation
The South of Seoul app is more than pretty pictures of food and fun things to do put together by some very dedicated volunteers. It is also embedded tons of information “easter eggs” that will make your life in Korea much easier. For example, our Transportation Hubs directories can be a huge help when you need them most. Need to know what is the closest bus terminal to you? We can help with that. Looking for a bus schedule? We can help with that. Wondering which station the SRT leaves from? We…
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How to Use Our App Listings
Our listings are filled with useful information depending on topic and availability. It’s surprising how much you can find poking around one of our volunteer created listings. Let’s go on tour together to see what’s up. Since we all need to eat, let’s look at one of the 40+ Pyeongtaek grocery stores we have listed. To get started let’s enter the Pyeongtaek Area Directory, select Spotlight: Businesses and Groceries & Specialty Foods. The listing we are looking at today is a popular store located near Camp Humphreys. We sort by…
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New Registration System for Fall Bus Trips
UPDATED: April 30th 2018 to include any changes In 2017 we took a big leap of faith and launched our ride-share Pyeongtaek Beach Bus trips. We cobbled together the best reservation system we could at the time and spent the summer making notes on how to improve. We then sat around with scratching our heads and asking ourselves, “How will we make these changes with zero budget for expensive trip planning systems while also not putting too much of a burden on our volunteers?” These are the questions we struggle…
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The New South of Seoul Pyeongtaek is HERE!
Living outside Seoul can be a challenge for foreigners The language barrier is a complicated hurdle, Google maps rarely works well, information in FB groups gets buried, and there aren’t many bloggers who stick around. When you need something, it’s often easier to just follow the information and catch a train to Seoul rather than find what you need close to home. However, wouldn’t it be nice if it didn’t have to be like that? If you had all the information you needed to solve your problems in your own…
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SOS App Coming Soon!
It’s Since MollaKorea.com (where SOS also volunteers) and the South of Seoul community has been growing faster than we ever anticipated so we’ve decided to get fancy! We are launching an iPhone and Adroid app that will tell you everything you need to know about living in Pyeongtaek. The app is currently being tested by a few local volunteers and should be ready for download in a few weeks. South of Seoul is partnering with local businesses to do an official launch – hopefully before Christmas – with a party…
