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Korean Apps for Travel and Living in Korea: 18 Apps Checked for English
The Korean apps foreigners actually need, grouped by job, with what each app’s store listing declares for languages and whether you can download it outside Korea.
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Korean Phone Number Format: 010, Area Codes and the +82 Country Code
How to read a Korean phone number by its first digits (010, 02, 070, 080, 050, 1588), when to drop the area code, and how to write it with +82 by dropping the leading 0.
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How to Type Korean on an English Keyboard, and Two Common Mistakes
How to type Korean on Windows with the Microsoft IME, why you get dkssudgktpdy instead of 안녕하세요, and why the last Korean syllable disappears when you press Enter in some apps.
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South Korea’s Shutdown Law: Is the Late-Night Gaming Ban Still in Effect?
Korea’s shutdown law banned under-16s from online games after midnight for ten years. It ended on December 31, 2021, covered only PC games, and a study found it cut use by about three minutes a day.
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How to Write a Korean Address in English, and Why There Are Two Systems
Korean addresses come in two forms: road name and old land-lot numbers. How to write a Korean address in English, what daero, ro and gil mean, and how building numbers double as distance.
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Why Korean Fonts Are 13 Times Bigger Than English Ones
A Korean font on Windows is 13 MB; Arial is 1 MB. The reason is 11,172 syllable blocks, each drawn separately. What that means for Korean web fonts, measured on real pages.
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Korea’s 28GHz 5G Failure: What Went Wrong With Millimeter Wave
Korea required its carriers to build 15,000 base stations each for 28GHz 5G. They reached about 10%, lost their licences, and a new carrier failed too. A postmortem of the millimeter-wave bet.
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Why Korean Banking Sites Make You Install Security Programs
Korean bank websites still ask you to install a stack of security programs, years after the rule behind them was dropped. A 2025 study found 19 vulnerabilities in them. How it happened and what to do.
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Does South Korea Still Have the Fastest Internet? What the 2026 Numbers Say
South Korea was once ranked first for internet speed. In August 2026 it was 4th for mobile and 26th for home broadband. Where the old claim came from, and what Korea still leads on.
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What Is an HWP File? Korea’s Word Format and How to Open It
An HWP file is the Korean government’s default document format. How to open one without Hancom Office, why Korea never switched to Word, and why it is moving to HWPX in 2026.