VISITKOREA : Official Guide

한국관광공사

About this app

"Travel Korea with the VisitKorea app! The VisitKorea app provides information on beautiful tourist attractions, delicious food, comfortable accommodations, pleasant shopping centers and exciting festivals in Korea to help tourists have the most satisfying trip ever. In addition, it provides all the information tourists may need when traveling to Korea such as finding directions and public transportation information, and emergency contacts to make their trip more convenient and safe.

All about Korean Tourism
News and travel columns are updated regularly to provide special travel information about Korea. Check them out to learn more about current and upcoming trends on tourist attractions, restaurants, accommodations, shopping center and festivals. In the Travel Basics menu, you can find useful information such as visa and entry requirements, emergency contacts, operating hours of public agencies and tourist police.

Record you itinerary
Record memories of your trip in Korea. This new feature will help you manage your schedule and remember your trip in the form of a timeline. Simply save your arrival and departure information, your planned itinerary, and add photos and memos.

Korean tourism information recommended automatically
Are you in Seoul now? Then, the VisitKorea app will guide you to the most satisfying tourist areas in Seoul. The VisitKorea app recommends information such as tourist attractions, good restaurants, accommodations etc. according to the user’s preference by using big data. (You must register additional information in the settings menu to receive customized recommendation for tourism information.)

Maps to find your way around Korea
Use the directions menu in the map to find your way to your destination while traveling in Korea. You can find the route via public transport, taxis, or on foot. In addition, the subway menu provides subway route maps and subway directions for Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju and Daejeon.

As a reliable travel guide provided by the Korea Tourism Organization, VisitKorea provides information for tourists who are planning a trip to Korea or are currently traveling in Korea. Users can feel like they are in Korea even when using the app at home. Korea Tourism Organization is working hard to improve the VisitKorea app service for an enjoyable trip to Korea."

Ratings and reviews

Tourist guide that doesn't work offline. It's a shame. It doesn't seem to provide much value outside of being a glorified website packed as an app. At that point, why even download it?

To begin with, the app didn't even start properly. It had endless pop up requests asking for permission to access files and location. They repopulate the moment you select either of the options. When you finally get through that almost endless permission requests pop up. The contents take a long time to load and the map just doesn't work all together. Funny enough when I was rating this app. It asked about if I managed to book flights or change reservations on the app. It would probably help if they start with trying to make it work as a marketing tool before they start thinking of asking people to book their flight on an app that doesn't even work. Pretty disappointing for an official tourism app of a supposed to be a tech advanced country.

After app was installed, it keeps asking permission to acces my photos, media, and files in my phone and I denied it. Why does it needs to acces my photos and files in order to use it? The app start up screen keeps rotating and it even cannot start. It's not functioning.

What's new

minor bugs fixed