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:
๋ฒ์ค = Bus
์ ๋ฅ์ฅ = Bus stop e.g: ๊ฐ๋จ์ญ ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ = ๊ฐ๋จ์ญ Bus stop (Gangnam Station Bus stop)
์งํ์ฒ = Subway
___์ญ = ___ Station e.g: ์ ์ฌ์ญ = ์ ์ฌ Station (Sinsa Station)
8๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ = Exit 8
3ํธ์ = Line 3
ํ์น = Transfer
ํ์ = Get off
๋๋ณด = Walk
What you will see when you open the app (newest version):
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.
You mostly will only use the Get directions option ๐
Search destination:
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 (ํ์์คํ์ด) you just need to type in 15 ์์ค๋ก (15 Yeongjung-ro).
From the result you can choose to get directions from the place or to the place directly.
Get directions:
I use Sinsa Station and Lotte World as example.
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:
ํ์๋น ์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:
In Public transportation option we have:
์ถ์ฒ 10 = 10 recommendation routes
๋ฒ์ค 10 = 10 routes by bus
์งํ์ฒ 2 = 2 routes by subway
and ๋ฒ์ค+์งํ์ฒ 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) ์ ์ฌ์ญ > (2) ๊ต๋์ญ > ์ ์ค์ญ ํ์ฐจ = Line 3 ์ ์ฌ Station > Line 2 ๊ต๋ Station > Get off at ์ ์ค Station
์งํ์ฒ ์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?
In the first box it says: (Yes, they already highlighted what’s important for you)
์ ์ฌ์ญ = At ์ ์ฌ Station
3ํธ์ ์น์ฐจ ํธ, ๊ต๋์ญ์์ 2ํธ์ ํ์น = Take subway line 3, at ๊ต๋ Station transfer to line 2
์ฝ 10๋ถ | 3๊ฐ ์ญ = About 10 minutes | 3 stations
In the second box:
๊ต๋์ญ = At ๊ต๋ Station
2ํธ์ ์น์ฐจ ํธ, ์ ์ค์ญ ํ์ฐจ = Take subway line 2, get off at ์ ์ค station
์ฝ 21๋ถ | 7๊ฐ ์ญ = About 21 minutes | 7 stations
Now that will be the last direction for you and all you need to focus on is 4๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ก 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.
Remember to check your current location (red dot!) as you walk ๐
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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I wonder if we could create a custom travel map with Naver map like with Google map?
Thank you.
Till now I still didnโt see that feature on Naver maps, it let you download the directions you search to use once you need but no custom travel map yet
you also might want to try using map.daum.net , which is made by the Daum KaKao company. Daum maps is newer than Naver so some would argue it is better. Still need to know how to read basic Korean.
Check out https://wego.here.com made by the HERE Technologies company. HERE has a Seoul office which maps roads and POIS in Korea. Maps are now available in English, but only from within Korea because of data export laws. Not on mobile yet.
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How do you know which direction subway to take?
Usually they will have the last station named. For example if you’re at station A, and there are trains go to either station B or C as the last station on the line, you will see at signs like “train for B” and “train for C”. Sometimes they use the biggest station instead like “train for Seoul Station”.
Or just check the next station from where you are to see which one you should take.
Do you have any idea if it’s possible to set a time for your travel. What I mean is this: when I check which bus to take, it shows which one I can take now. It’s not very useful when I’m trying to figure out if there is a bus in three or five hours…
I tried but it seems there’s no option to set your travel time yet. However for bus I think there should be one passing by every 10 minutes or so, if you miss it just wait for the next one, it wont take too long
Thank you so much for all your work!! I feel like I have been playing with this app in the dark and you turned the lights on for me. I am stationed here with my husband and like many of the spouses find it stressful just to get home in a Taxi. So I have been trying to find a way to show the spouses how to use Naver because it is the only way I have found to get our home addresses or places we want to go in Hangeul in a way that the taxi can enter it in the GPS (But we can locate visually on the map first or “pin drop” when at the location ex. ๋ถ์ฐ๊ด์ญ์ ํด์ด๋๊ตฌ ์ค๋ 1391-31 our favorite Brazilian BBQ ). But I needed a way to make it more user friendly Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
I will be sharing this via FB if that is ok? Thank you again!!!
You’re welcome ^^
And yes please go ahead ๐
Hello men, Does it support English language? I want to install it with English packet
It’s only available in Korean.
Really appriciated! Do you know if there is a way to turn on caching of maps ( ์ง๋ ์ ์ฅ I belive)? I didn’t find it in settings but wonder if there would be a sub setting somewhere.
It used to be much easier and you can map caching anywhere you want but they took that option away years ago.
Now the only way to do it is to do a ๊ธธ์น๊ธฐ first, choose a result and then download it to your phone (the download icon is on the the upper right corner)
Thanks for all the efforts in explaining the Naver map.
It’s very helpful for foreign tourists.
BTW, is there a way to show all the ์ฆ๊ฒจ์ฐพ๊ธฐon the map?
just like the “Starred spots” on the Yahoo map
I just tried but it seemed impossible to show all the spots on the map. You can only open the list and choose to see one spot at a time.
Let’s me ask some Koreans if there is a way. Will get back to you if I can find one ๐
So grateful that you take the trouble to look for the solution to my problem.
Looking forward to your reply^^
Omg so happy you made this
I’m going there in 2 weeks and was really worried about naver ( seoul Subway app takes the worry away off subway matters ) maps but now I got it. Thanks a lot, really
You’re welcome! Have fun in Korea ^^
After new updates, the Naver Map interface has changed so that I can’t follow your screenshots exactly. Google Maps is powerless in calculating walking directions – could I pay you to make an updated version of your step by step instructions?
Thanks for letting me know about the change.
I will try to update this post with the updated version by this weekend ๐