How to use Naver Map app (update: July 2015)

Update: Since the new update changed Naver Map interface I updated all the screenshots so now you can use the tutorial without any trouble.

The next time you update Naver Map, if the interface changes again please inform me so I can update the post for you. Thanks!

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It would be because of my lack of knowledge about the country or I’m just too lazy to study how address works here, either way, to me – with only name and address on hand – it’s pretty much impossible to find a place in Korea without mapping service. Even if you manage to find your way around the neighborhood, it’s rare if any local can really show you the directions unless that place is famous among Koreans or it’s a skyscraper and such. Other than that, they will still pull out naver or daum, search for the address then point you the way.

There are two mapping services people usually use here in Korea, Naver Map and Daum Map. If you can’t read Korean, Google Maps works too, but not as good when it comes to a particular address and public transportation.

And since Naver Map did a wonder for me to getting around Korea, I write this post so people without knowledge of Korean can use the app too.

(I only have experience with the Naver Map app for iPhone and it’s similar with the app for Android but I’m not sure if the web-based app is the same.

I apologize in advance that this post may turn out to be a mess with all the explanations on and off pictures ;____; )

First of course you want to install the app and add in Korean keyboard.

Some helpful words:

๋ฒ„์Šค = Bus
์ •๋ฅ˜์žฅ = Bus stop e.g: ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์—ญ ์ •๋ฅ˜์žฅ = ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์—ญ Bus stop (Gangnam Station Bus stop)
์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ  = Subway
___์—ญ = ___ Station e.g: ์‹ ์‚ฌ์—ญ = ์‹ ์‚ฌ Station (Sinsa Station)
8๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ = Exit 8
3ํ˜ธ์„  = Line 3
ํ™˜์Šน = Transfer
ํ•˜์ž = Get off
๋„๋ณด = Walk

What you will see when you open the app (newest version):

navermap1

Your current location will appear as a red dot on the map, remember to check it to make sure you’re not going the wrong way.

All the searching options
All the searching options

You mostly will only use the Get directions option ๐Ÿ™‚

Search destination:

When you search for a location with name (Here I search for Incheon International Airport)
When you search for a location with name (Here I search for Incheon International Airport)

As you type in, the matching results will appear below so you can choose the one you’re looking for from the list.

Or you can just put in the address, e.g for TIMES SQUARE (ํƒ€์ž„์Šคํ€˜์–ด) you just need to type in 15 ์˜์ค‘๋กœ (15 Yeongjung-ro).

How the result come out
How the result come out

From the result you can choose to get directions from the place or to the place directly.

Get directions:

We have 4 options here, choose either public transport, car, bike or walk after you enter the locations.
We have 4 options here, choose either public transport, car, bike or walk after you enter the locations.

I use Sinsa Station and Lotte World as example.

By car:

By car
By car

When you choose By Car option the result will show you how much it might cost if you take the taxi.

As in the first result, you only have to focus on these words:

ํƒ์‹œ๋น„ ์•ฝ 8,600์› = Taxi fee about 8,600KRW
์•ฝ 14 | ์•ฝ 9.58km = About 14 minutes driving | 9.58km

P/s: If you drive, use the GPS installed in the car. If you don’t then you probably only use this option to see how much it’ll cost to ride the taxi. (at least that how it was for me)

Public transportation:

navermap7In Public transportation option we have:

์ถ”์ฒœ 10 = 10 recommendation routes
๋ฒ„์Šค 10 = 10 routes by bus
์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ  2 = 2 routes by subway
and ๋ฒ„์Šค+์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ  5 = 5 routes by both bus + subway

I choose the marked result as example (because it requires theย least walking time, I will show you)

(3) ์‹ ์‚ฌ์—ญ > (2) ๊ต๋Œ€์—ญ > ์ž ์‹ค์—ญ ํ•˜์ฐจ = Line 3 ์‹ ์‚ฌ Station > Line 2 ๊ต๋Œ€ Station > Get off at ์ž ์‹ค Station
์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—ญ 10 | ์•ฝ 11.96km = 10 Subway stations | About 11.96km
์•ฝ 39๋ถ„ (๋„๋ณด 5๋ถ„) | 1,350 ์› = About 39 minutes (5 minutes walking) | Cost 1,350KRW

Pretty easy to understand, right?

Choose the result to get more details
Choose the result to get more details
And here is the step by step directions
And here is the step by step directions

In the first box it says: (Yes, they already highlighted what’s important for you)

์‹ ์‚ฌ์—ญ = At ์‹ ์‚ฌ Station
3ํ˜ธ์„  ์Šน์ฐจ ํ˜ธ, ๊ต๋Œ€์—ญ์—์„œ 2ํ˜ธ์„  ํ™˜์Šน = Take subway line 3, at ๊ต๋Œ€ Station transfer to line 2
์•ฝ 10๋ถ„ | 3๊ฐœ ์—ญ = About 10 minutes | 3 stations

In the second box:

๊ต๋Œ€์—ญ = At ๊ต๋Œ€ Station
2ํ˜ธ์„  ์Šน์ฐจ ํ˜ธ, ์ž ์‹ค์—ญ ํ•˜์ฐจ = Take subway line 2, get off at ์ž ์‹ค station
์•ฝ 21๋ถ„ | 7๊ฐœ ์—ญ = About 21 minutes | 7 stations

Focus on the circle there!!!!!
Focus on the circle there!!!!!

Now that will be the last direction for you and all you need to focus on is 4๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ๋กœ which means take exit 4.

After that there will be no direction for walking, but you can touch on the result and walk as the route on the map.

Can you see Lotte World right on the map? :)
Can you see Lotte World right on the map? ๐Ÿ™‚

Remember to check your current location (red dot!) as you walk ๐Ÿ™‚

And that’s pretty much everything you need to know, now use this as example and all other searches are similar to this. I was about to show you how to check the subway routes using Naver Map, but it seems too complicated, you should just use the stations map at the subway instead.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask away! ^^

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