Tweet of the Day: Why Does Apple and Google Maps Suck in South Korea?

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
1 year ago

As I understand it, it has something to do with that google and apple won’t block out military facilities. At least that was a story a few years ago.

Korean Man
Korean Man
1 year ago

Because they won’t block key locations that are security risks. Just use Naver map, it’s just as good if not better.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
1 year ago

While Naver has English features you still can type a locations English name and have it come up. Not to mention any other of the common world languages.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

“Because they won’t block key locations that are security risks.”

Hopefully North Korea doesn’t figure out how to access the internet from any other country than South Korea.

Bonus Stupid: You can’t use Google Translate for websites because Korea is worried sick you might use it as a proxy for pr0n.

Fortunately, you can still use a proxy that has no other utility than looking at pr0n.

And now that spies and pr0n mongers are managed, it’s time to get back to serious work refining ActiveX for Internet Explorer.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
1 year ago

Sorry, should have said cannot have it come up in English or any other language.

Korean Man
Korean Man
1 year ago

Sorry, should have said cannot have it come up in English or any other language.

Why you need that? Is it because you can’t read and are illiterate?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

“Why you need that? Is it because you can’t read and are illiterate?”

The real question you should be asking yourself is if the Korean IT industry wants to service a handful of Koreans or build a high-profit global brand bringing money into the Korean economy by turning Korean brainpower directly into cash instead of sharing profit with the suppliers of raw materials like most other industries.

As a Korean, you spit on your own face.

Or you are a chinabot.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
1 year ago

I read just fine…..if you want tourist types you want to make it more accessible.

Mcgeehee
1 year ago

If Pres Yoon (or any future president) really wanted to help the country, they’d get rid of those damn tollbooths. They’re a menace to traffic safety, traffic flow, not to mention commerce and even tourism.

The entry to them and the merge coming out of them (reduce from 10 lanes to 3 in maybe a hundred meters, all w/o merge lanes; just disappearing lane lines) are an obvious after-thought to whoever designed those roads.

But we need the money? Then figure out a way to collect it somewhere else: gas tax, road tax, vehicle registration fees, etc. 

I believe those tollbooths are a remnant from the Chun Doo-hwan era whose time has come.

setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

Texas and various spots on east coast use “toll tags” and license plate readers…

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