Photo: Muneeb Babar / Pexels Google Maps works in Korea, up to a point. It shows you places, reviews and bus and subway routes, but as of October 2026 it still does not give walking or driving directions here. So install Naver Map or KakaoMap before you land, and when a place won't come up in English, paste its Korean name. If you read in February that Korea had approved Google's request, that is true. What it approved, and how far that has got since, is the part worth knowing before you plan your first day around it. What works today? When the Korea Herald checked in late August 2026, Google Maps in Korea offered place listings, reviews and public transit directions , with no turn-by-turn navigation. The walking parts of a transit route showed up as dotted lines with no guidance along them. Google gave the paper no launch date. Two days later Google's plan was reported in plainer words: it intends to bring turn-by-turn directions to Korea , which were "si...
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