[Living in Korea] Korean Air Mobile Check In - You can save your time with mobile check in

[Korean Air Mobile Check In]

 

 Image Source : Korean Air Home Page



 

 

I think most of the Airlines have mobile check-in services and the process of the check-in service are similar.

 

Recently, I had to go to Osaka, Japan by business trip. I used Korean Air at that time. And I could save about 30 minutes by using the Mobile check-in.

 

However, this service is mainly for Korean people mainly. I introduce how to do it for the people who don't understand Korean Language.

 

 

 

[How to Check-in] 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.  First, you should access to the Korean Air Home page. You can search it on google. In korean, it is '대한항공'. You can refer to the address here.

 https://kr.koreanair.com/

 

 

 

 

2. If you already accessed to the home page on mobile, you would see this page. The red circle part is the Check-in.

 

 

 

 

3. And then, you can insert your information (Booking reference, date, etc).

 

4. Eventually, you should choose where to receive the Ticket. You would have 2 options. The one is mobile massage and another one is Kakaotalk (Messenger App - popular one in korea).

 

 

 

5. You can check the Boarding pass and the QR code will be working when passing the security and entering to the gate. This image has same effect as the paper boarding pass.

 

 

 

 [Process Changing the Language setting]

 

 

 

1. The problem of this mobile check-in is you can not find English or other languages on the mobile easily. (If you see it as web version, you can find the language setting easily.) If you are using the phone, you can check how to change the language setting at the next step.

 

 

 

 2. If you see the top left side, you can see the word '메뉴' which means menu.

 

3. If you click that, you will see this. Please click the cogwheel at the bottom side.

 

 

 

  4. the language option is at the second to last. '변경 지역/언어 (Language)'

 

 

5. After then, you can choose the Country and Language

[Living in Korea] How to order Food (Delivery Service) & Using Mobile App for Delivery

[How to order Food (Delivery Service) & Using Mobile App for Delivery]

I don't really know how Korean Traditional Delivery Service has been developed.

Anyway, Korea is well known as Nice Delivery Service. Actually, most of the korean people are not satisfy with the Service Quality. But, they believe the speed of the delivery is the world best level.

As long as you are reading this article, you ought be a beginner in Korean Language. So, I don't think you can order food by phone call. So, I recommend you to use Delivery Mobile Apps.


[Recommended Application : 요기요 (Yogiyo)]

My wife is using this application. This has web version also. So, you can search it on Naver (Korean Portal site which is famous in Korea) or Google easily.

Actually, there are several Apps. So, you can find the others also.

Other Apps : 배달의 민족 (Baemin), 배달통 (Bdtong)

 <Web Page : Yogiyo>

 

 

 

Most of the people are using the Mobile App instead of the Web.

 

 

How to use it?

 

 - If you can read Korean : I recommend you to use App (Mobile).

 

<Location Setting>

 

 

  1) You should choose where you are. Or you can insert the name of your town in Korea (You'd better to input the name of the town and city both to make the location accurate on search. If you use GPS in your Mobile, you can set your location more easily.

 

<Several kind of food categories>



 

  2) After setting the location, you can choose what kind of food you want. For Yogiyo, there are Fried Chicken, Chinese Food, Pizza & Western Food, Korean Food, etc.

 

 

<You can check several Restaurants near your place>

 

 

3) After chooseing the category you want, you should choose one restaurant you want. You can read the reviews of the others and compare the scores which have been made by the people has tasted the restaurants. I recommend you to choose the one which has the highest score.

 

 

 

 

4) And then, you can choose the Menu. You can check the prices. Unfortunately, there are no images of the foods. You should depend on Googling to guess what kind of the food is.

 

 

 

5) You can pay by credit card on the App. But, it is a little bit annoy process for you. So, I recommend you to pay for it on the spot (Your House). '현장결제' means 'Paying on the spot'. '신용카드' means 'Credit card'. And '현금결제' means 'Paying by Cash'.

 

 

 

- If you do not know the Korean Language : I recommend you to use Web site (https://www.yogiyo.co.kr)

 

* The process of the order is same as App (Mobile above). The only difference is to copy the Korean Script (The App version of 'Yogiyo' doesn't allow this fuctoion for now unfortunately). With dragging and copying the script, you can translate it on Google Translate or something similar site)

 

 

 

 



[Living in Korea] Recommended Website for Multi-Cultural Families (Korean Migrant)

[Website for Multi-Cultural Families]


I introduce you an web site which is very useful for the Multi-Cultural Families.

This website supports various languages to help you understand the meaning of each contents.

If you go into the site, you can check several categories (Living in Korea. Job information, Korean Language Study, Useful Information / Policy for Muilti-cultural Families, etc)

Website : www.liveinkorea.kr

Source : https://www.liveinkorea.kr

[Living in Korea] How to ride the Seoul Metro (Subway) & Places you must check out & Recommended Cities in Korea

<How to ride the Seoul Metro (Subway) & Places you must check out & Recommended Cities in Korea> 

[Utilization the Subway App]

Seoul city area can be classified as the north region and the south resion by the Han-gang River.
The famous song 'Gangnam Style' is from this area. And there is an administrative distric which is called 'Gangnam' in the Gangnam area. (Image : Google Earth)

For Seoul, there are several subway (Metro) lines and those look very complicated. However, if you are the first-time visitor, you need to know the Yellow green (Light green) line is the main line.

If you use the Yellow green line (Line Number 2), you can go to almost every place in Seoul easily by the transfer. It costs 1,250 KRW (Approximately 1 USD). And it is added by the distance. But, it costs under 2 USD if you are in Seoul City area.

You can download the English Version of the any Subway App. For me, I used the App on the top.

You can search the name of the subway station in English.



[How to buy the Ticket and use the Subway?]


 - Every station has ticket machine. First, you can buy the ticket (Card) at the machine. The deposit of the card is 500 KRW (about 50 cents). And you need to charge the card by inserting the cash. And then, you can pass the ticket barrier. You should walk to the train platform. You need to check if the train heads to your destination. After you get to the destination, you can receive the deposit. But, if you want to use Subway during your stay in Seoul, you can keep it. So, you don't need to give it back.


[Places you must check out]

I introduce some nice places to visit. You can refer to the Names of the Subway Stations  here.

1. Gyeongbokgung Station

 - You can visit to 'Gyeongbokgung' Palace which is the one of the representative symbols. This palace was built in the early Joseon period (The last Dynasty in Korea which is centuries-old dynasty). And Hanyang (Old name of Seoul) was the capital of the Joseon. You can see the beuty of Korean traditional construction. And you can also walk the large scale of the gorgeous garden decorated as Korean Style.
Additionally, there is a village consisted of only Korean Style house also. The name of the village is 'Bukchon hanok Village'

2. Jamsil Station

- You can visit to Lotte World Tower which is the third heighest Building in the world. And you can go shopping in the shoping center here. In addition, there is a beautiful lake called 'Seokchon lake'. I have wrote about this lake and the tower at another article. You can refer to the article.

3. Myeong-dong Station

 - If you want to go to the Namsan Tower (Seoul Tower), this station and Hoehyeon Station are the closest stations. The tower is located at the top of the Namsan Mountain. If you want to look down the Seoul city, this tower is the proper place.
In order to get there. you should take Taxi or Bus at the station. If you take Taxi, it would cost about 5$. And Bus 'No. 2' goes to the Tower.


[If you want to go to the other cities?]


For the transportation to go to the other cities, there are 2 ways to go. You can choose and go to the proper station by your or purpose or budget.

 - Intercity Bus Terminal : Express Bus Terminal Station, Nambu Bus Terminal Station, Gangbyeon Station
 Express Bus costs less than Express Train (KTX or SRT). Generally, the cost is half of the Express train and similar to Common train. But, the travel time is almost double. For example, it takes 4~5 hours to go to the Busan (Pusan) which is one of the furthermost city from Seoul. For Busan, it costs about 25,000 KRW (22~23 USD).


 - Express Train (KTX, SRT) : Seoul Station (KTX), Yongsan Station (KTX), Yeongdeunpg Station (KTX), Incheon International Airport (KTX), Suseo Station (SRT).
You can take common or slower trains at the Express Train station. But, I would like to recommend you to take the KTX or SRT if you want to save your time. If you take KTX, you can get to the Busan (Pusan) about 2 and a half hour. For Busan, it costs about 52,000 KRW (45~46 USD).


[Recommended Cities in Korea]

 - Gyeongju, Busan, Jeju Island, Suncheon, Gangneung, Sokcho, Pyeongchang.
 * Specific explanation will be written at other articles.