KakaoMap - Map / Navigation

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easy to use while in Korea

this app is very useful and helpful

great mostly accurate

great app to use in korea. keep it up.

great

helpful

this app is shows wrong almost everytime like one time I was walking to the station when I get there the damn map shows me already moving with a metro

좋아요

I like the App it makes navigation easy even if your a foreigner.. kudos to the developer's 🫡👏

routes don't work correctly.

앱은 좋아고 유용해요 👍

Log in does not work :-( Serving ads works :-( Deleting :-)

better app ever

초창기 친구위치 공유하면 실시간으로 이동이 잘 됐는데, 기능을 추가하면서 이제는 멈춰있다가 순간적으로 이동해서 불편함

it's good

slow as hell

nais

Due to the translation to English feature, really useful

업데이트하니까 더 구려짐 지도 경계도 안보이고

nice but

pretty good

Overall a good app and much more helpful than Naver maps. Sometimes it had trouble with addresses cut and pasted in English despite being copied directly from a Korean company's website. I really liked the functionality when it came to transit, it was extremely helpful!

greet

I was really impressed with this. great UI UX, semi English friendly and more features than Gmaps. the only issue I found was when driving it would say 'take the exit towards ...... ' and never tell where. perhaps an issue with the English/Korean place names.

very convenient 👌

That this is the only thing I can used when I am back in South Korea.

This app really good for new tourist (korea)

OK, but ui isn't polished

Excellent app for navigating subway and bus routes. My preferred app as a user of public transportation.

Life saver while walking in Korea. Great for searching terms in English to find places to visit. Had zero issues using the map while moving around on foot and also while using the subway. App menus in English and I found most words translated. Love this app.

wonderful

nice

ai 픽 기능이 가격 조건을 넣으면 약해져요.

bad

It's worth having

여기 음성안내서비스 믿고 탓다가 엉뚱한데 내리고 안해도 될 지각을 했네요 감사합니다

Using the app as an english speaking foreigner. English directions adds "towards" after each direction, which adds too much words to the navigation. Example: "Turn left towards, then turn right towards." Also repeats driving instructions too frequently, especially speed camera zones. The maps can also be confusing with colours. Main roads are yellow, but so can your navigation route which can make it confusing at times. However, it's still easily a 4+ App!

pretty good and pretty accurate

Bus seat availability no longer shows after the latest update. ㅠㅠ

keeps deactivating my account 24h after creation

It's a must for foreign drivers as it has comprehensive speed camera warning. Excellent parking facilities with rated to search. One setback is the voice navigation does not pronounce the road names during voice guidence.

어느기점으로 버스도착 알림 정확도가 형편없어짐 네이버지도가 더 유용하니 네이버 쓰시길

nice app

shortest walk 가 시간이 오래 걸림에도 맨 위에 뜨는 경우가 있네요. 빠르게 버그를 고쳐주세요

best

accurate accuracy

It's so good!

A useful app to get around Seoul

verry good

very useful and accurate

fantastic

Best Map

Excellent bicycle routing, including elevation indication.

very usefull in Korea. Easy to sign in and plan your trip

난 빨리 구글지도가 들어왔으면 좋겠다

Slow as hell.

Super interactive map... love it

very useful

great experience using this map in korea .. blindly trustable

Great once you get a hang on it🙏🙏👍👍

the best!

I'm using this app effectively that is really helpful day-to-day committing I highly recommend this it has numerous features that can help for foreigners like me.

The app was user-friendly before 2025, but the recent updates have caused several issues. For example, it often fails to find addresses when I copy or them from Karrot or receive them through WhatsApp.also whe i share the location. all my friends have the same problem.

great app. Its really cool you can see live positions of metro trains and during cherry blossom season it shows blossom locations and whether they are buds or blossoms on the map. Navigation is also pretty good.

the best map app in south Korea

I found this app very easy to use as an English speaker. Gave great directions and updates when trains and buses were arriving.

excellent app if you want to find places in Korea in English.

Shortly after creating an account, it was suspended because of a "suspicious sign-up attempt". The only "suspcious" thing about my sign-up is that I am in the United Kingdom, not Korea. It's also not possible to contact Kakao to request the suspension is lifted. Totally rubbish and paranoid attitude! The other major Korean mapping company did the same thing.

good

best app

1st in class experience with this app

good

it's good

great

Nice

Even though Favourite is marked public and link is shared with friends with account in KakaoMap, they were merely redirected to KakaoMap upon clicking the link. They could not see the folder and there was no option to subscribe.

good 👍

good

why tf do you even need to manage my phone calls to build a route?

It's terrible and disgusting 🫨🥴🥵🤯🤧🤢🤮💩💩💩💩

please update it .

good

Why do I suddenly have to agree to a location usage agreement? I do not allow any app to track me. Good thing I have photographic memory and don't need a map often...just want to check bus arrival times which I can do elsewere.

Good for south korea..

Accurate and simple to use.

버스가 3분 뒤에 온다고 해서 정거장에 왔는데 가봐서 물어보니까 이미 5분 전에 출발했다더라

very bad app.

worst verification, data keeps getting deleted

I preferred this app over Naver to get around Seoul. It does everything, guide you, tells you when the next bus and trains are, tells you how many stops before you get off and when to get off. 5/5 stars.

적절한 정보와 풍부한 리뷰가 선택에 많은 도움을 줍니다.

naver's better

best app in Korea transportation

휴대폰 설정언어가 영어라서 앱사용이 불편해요. 설정 들어가서 한국어로 변경하고싶은데 앱별로 언어설정 다르게 할수있는 앱이 아니네요. 업데이트에 반영되면 좋겠어요. system default 언어 말고 다른 언어도 설정할수 있게 부탁드립니다.

good apps

no english and chinese, very clumsy

best navigation app in south Korea

even tho it not translated it easy to use and find places to eat nearby. been finding good spot to nom cus of it

easy to use

친구위치 그거 개극ㄱ혐

Pretty useful but many things are not translated in Korean. Also finding an address without using hangul is often not working for me. So it takes a while to get used to everything and find everything. I would recommend to get familiar with this app before traveling to Korea and not while standing at the airport after arrival to find quickly the next bus to Seoul as I did it 😅

Not english friendly. Probably ok if you read or write Korean. The app is widely used and also allows you to call taxis. Kakao should have an english version.

Worst map I have ever used. Slow, plus sometimes won't load at all. Navigation is horrible. Stay away. Google maps is USA le with a trick in Korea. Use that instead.

Kakao map is an indispensable tool in South Korea. Even for English speakers it is very easy to use. I use it all the time for both public transportation and the GPS on my motorcycle.

It's okay but can't really be used on its own, even in Korean it seems to be pretty bad. For example, if you want to enter an address, even if you put the exact address or if you search really common things like "x station" it won't even give you the closest approximation. You have to use it in conjunction with another app. I was making do for a couple weeks in Jeju but it has no f*ng clue what to do in Seoul. Switching to another app to try my luck there.

Great addition to anyone travelling to Korea. Includes times to the next bus/train and prices which is really handy when topping up your T-card for using public transport. Wouldn't have had as smooth a holiday without it's recommendations to local attractions and food. Wish it worked outside of South Korea!

No longer has English voice navigation. Going to the contact us option in the app also doesn't work. I tried emailing the devs but never got a reply. Hopefully if enough people leave a bad review they'll actually notice and fix it. Edit... It has been fixed so I'll update my review back to five stars. But the contact us page in the English version of the app is still broken.

Useless navigation for English speakers!!? Update was forced on me without asking!!!! Previous version was ex exclent with English navigation!!! PLEASEE TELL ME HIW TO ROLL BACK TO PREVIOUS VERSION!! I JUST UNISTALLED THIS ONE. BAAAAAAD!!!!

English navigation no longer works. Can't get driving directions in English anymore. Yes, the app language is set to English. Yes, I cleared the cache.

The new update is useless even if you mute the sound of applications still its work I just connect my phone to Bluetooth to listen some music while driving but i didnt enjoy my music well cause when there is traffic or any camra this application mute my music auto or volume down it I refer to install never

Developers finally added an option to make the nav voice chatter significantly less (I don't need to be told a story about how the speed limit is 60 kph 5 times before the speed camera) but removed the option to change the nav language to English. Awesome. Back to Naver I go.

Great experience, very detailed mapping of public transportation, routes and the locations. Was very helpful during my stay in Seoul, Gyeongju and Busan. One improvement which can be done is to add English translations of as many key places as possible. As a non-Korean speaking individual, we search in English and the locations never pop up. We have to enter Korean translation of the location for it to search. It would make it more lucrative for foreigner usage if English search can be added!

When I used the app's road view, it turns out the pin doesn't stay still at the moment of swiping the map below the street image, making it difficult to use if you want to explore the map without moving from the current pin location. For me is rather disappointing

Compare to another navigation app, kakao always gives me the worst way ever to get in to a place, it choses up and down hill, small narrow rather than an easy shorter way to walk.

No English menus, e.g. the icons on the map about restaurants, cafes, attractions, etc. are in Korean although I set everything to English. Same for Hyper Precise Bus menu, etc. As a foreign tourist I need everything in English, ok? And need to be able to see the local public transport offline. I get it that the transport is fluid/dynamic and services might not be accurate while offline, but sync can be done overnight through WiFi. And need to find ATM's as S. Korea is a cash based economy.

The single most counter intuitive maps app I've ever seen, you'd be better off using a paper map. Nothing is named, it doesn't show which direction you're facing, it doesn't show you moving, it doesn't tell you which bus to catch. The only positive thing is it tells you when buses are supposed to arrive

Great app, very detailed mapping. Restaurants and Cafes are all well captured in the system. However, they could have changed tab labels at the top of the map e.g. "Restaurants", "People's Favorite", "Cafe" etc into English as well if the user has selected English in the settings. Or else, for an English user like myself, I have to depend on guess work to know what each tabs means, or spend the extra time using Google translate to translate it. Other than that, it's a very intuitive app,👍🏻

Was useful while it worked for about a week, then with no updates just suddenly would never connect for directions saying "check network connection" (there's nothing wrong with the network connection) and became completely useless. I did have to use it with Google maps though, since none of the bus stops or train stops it gives are in English. Now I just have to rely on Google maps over my obviously working network connection 😝

Getting around in Korea is an absolute breeze with this app. It's so convenient in how it informs you of all possible transit options. I love how it let's you know when to get off so you're at the right place. A must-have if you're traveling in Korea!

You need to use google translate to use the korean words to find accurate results. With English language support it would be a 5 star. Still a good app to use as a traveller

It has english version but most of places are not in english(even famous attractions) but the accuracy of locations/transportation is impressive.

If you're in South Korea this is a MUST have. Just download it now. Update: There are some user experience gotchas with this app. First, the default mode for directions does NOT update your location on the map. It shows no updates! You can get it give GPS real time updates...how?? Click around randomly...I can't reliably repeat the behavior. This is bad. Second issue: naming places. On map hover menu, "add place" is PUBLIC places. Not what I would expect. Private locations are hidden. bad desig

Google maps doesn't really work in ROK, so very useful. Not all the interface is translated, so a little difficult to use for someone who barely speaks Korean.

Earlier issues of functionality were corrected. Seems to work well but sometimes misses available buses. Would like to see information telling me how crowded the bus is. This would be really helpful when travelling with small children.

Excellent app for your Korean holiday if you know how to use it. You need to copy/paste the address in Korean for it to work, or just find your destination on the map. The route guidance in English works very well.

The app is great but not always receptive to English writing. This usually means you just need to translate first so not a big deal unless your phone can't do that on the go.

English is my 2nd language. Even if you choose the English Language is not fully on English it's partial. Is not tourist friendly and that's not welcoming. It's frustrating to navigate the app when you have no idea what you are clicking and looking. And if you are not a resident it's hard to add payment. Google maps still more helpful. I hope they open the doors more to visitors.

For auto and motorcycle it' very good, but for bicycle it's very poor. Missing many paved/dedicated bike routes and bike navigation is, therefore, deeply flawed.

Great app to use to travel around Korea. It is not the oldest map app in Korea but the way the app runs is in some ways better than the other maps currently out there.

This is the ONLY GPS app I use. I absolutely rely on this app for work-EVERY DAY. I wish there was more customization with the Favorites Folders, and I want to be able to customize the advisories, to toggle them on and off, individually. I appreciate the helpfulness, but at times it can be TOO helpful - Sometimes, I just want it to shut up - I don't care to know where every Frequent Animal Crossing is. I would gladly pay, as long as it is not a subscription, if it meant more premium features.

If you can read and write a little 한글, this is a very useful app. Good for driving as well as public transportation and walking.

Rarely lets me down. I can also save various types of destinations. I prefer to see everything in Korean so that I can match the things I see in real life.

It's gotten better over the years and is probably the best map you can use in Korea to get from place to place. If touch anywhere you can usually find directions and detailed explanations about shops and how to get around. It has been helpful.

Okay I've used a number of map and in all honesty there aren't many apps that can claim to be superior to KakaoMap. This has nothing to do with the fact that I've wanted to work with the KakaoCorp ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. You should definitely check it out once you come to Korea. Whether your preferred language is Korean or English, you'll find the innovativeness of this app quite admirable.

The transit information for subways used to be in English, but is now in Korean after the update. It's really frustrating when you're in a hurry. It is the info that you find when you click on a subway Station > then timetable.

It is much more accurate than google map when you are in Korea. Particularly, it can show bike route , whereas google map cannot.

It was fine, until it wasn't. The default location on the map is nowhere near where I am. I deleted the app data, made sure my shipping address with Kakao was changed, set my home address, and still the map is inaccurate. Frustrating!

I have some problems with 81 bus in yeosu city. I can't see its route on all my android devices. On iOS there are no problems. I hope you will fix it soon. Thank you in advance.

Maps are informative but the bus alarms and the arrival for the bus has been very inaccurate. I have missed my bus stops few times because of it's false alarm. Hope a fix in the future.

Accurate routing and easy to find destination. However, the recent update has made the link to kakaonavi broken. Kakaonavi link is needed for use with Android Auto in Korea! Please help to fix ASAP!

This app is extremely useful,and accurate! Downside: still hard to find places with an american name and it doesn't give you a parking search like waze does. Still my first choice when driving!

I have a note 9 and although this app was working fine all of a sudden it doesnt show the map properly. It will either be grayed out or be very zoomed out(even if you zoom in it doesnt give detailed map markers or show roads etc). It still locates me and gives me the directions to go places if i type it in but the map doesnt show. Please fix.

This app sucks! Here's why. Almost every time I choose a route, I see the projected cost for tolls. Yet every time it re-routes me, without asking first, and I pay 3 times more than anticipated. I can't even count how much money this dumb app has cost me. DON'T RE-ROUTE WOTHOUT MY PERMISSION!!!

Liars! I denied permission to access my camera, mic and storage. Description says "You can still use the service even if you don't give the above permissions." When I try to navigate, app won't work unless I grant permission. Uninstalled.

Even though I'm not Korean and cannot read Korean, I'm able to navigate really well using this app. It tells me when to get on the bus and sends me reminders when my stop is coming. I gave it four stars instead of 5 because I for me, having an English would make it even simpler to use.

Very helpful map in Korea . I want to give it 5 stars , but i gives 4 , because I'm a Motorcycle Rider , this app send me to Highways a lot . Which is not good at all . In korean law , motorcycle riders can't go in highways . I've already setup my settings on app that i have motorcycle , but still sometimes, not all times , sometimes i find myself in highway. Otherwise , this app is very good . I love it .

As a foreigner this app is extremely helpful. I use it for driving navigation, bus and subway routes and general location services. It has an English setting so there is no worry about understanding (or misunderstanding) Korean!

While the menu is in English, everything else is ONLY Korean: Location names, what kind of train to take, how to walk etc. Completely useless if you can't read Korean, which is shocking as a tourist.

I absolutely love the app. I find it more intuitive than Google maps and being able to see the buses move on the map in real time is amazing. I wish Kakao maps covered other countries! Some parts of the app (for example the notices) are still entirely in Korean, which is the only reason I didn't give it 5/5.

App was great until the latest Android update where it now the only location permissions you can select for it are to disable or only allow while the app is running which breaks the feature which tracks your ride while on public transportation.

Generally a Google map user, but since Google map doesn't work well in Korea, I've downloaded both Naver maps and Kakao maps to aid my trip in Seoul, Incheon and Suwon. I found that Kakao map is the best and most accurate in general. However when following calculated routes it can get a bit confusing at times, e.g. arrow pointing in the wrong direction

Using this app is very convenient. It's still hard to find certain stores, places, restaurants using English but it improved a lot compare to last year though. And i love the feature of finding public restrooms around you (type in "toilet")😁

It the best app to use only in korea .. really help a lot for travel alone or backpaker, All so there a few thing to update such as shopping name, language & some buses that need to inprove. Please reupdate the language for bahasa some part of it are wrong & have a different meaning

Super easy to use! It can help you find your way even amongst the tiny little streets, and points out your precise location even if you are on a small footpath in the forest like surrounding :) Well done KakaoMap!

Wow, the perfect app for travelling in South Korea! Saves a lot of time and hustle. The best feature is the alert feature which will tell you when to go off the bus as you go, this way you know both how much time you have and how much stations are left to go.

The favorites folder option is one of my favorite features of this app. It's also great that the different route options also allow you to see the cost of the commute depending on the route you choose to go with.

Works well if you know Korean but English translation and English recognition still needs lots of work. The navigation is very weak and inaccurate when indicating multiple floors or levels. Needs much better navigation guidance notification. Completely lacking accurate turn by turn navigation guidance for walking and it doesn't even have route recalculation feature. Lots of guessing.

Can't even find the place of interest. Using the app to show the taxi driver an address and the taxi driver can't even understand where the place is located. Extremely terrible app.

Needs a little bit more English support. And above all else, it needs to stop searching for things on the opposite side of Korea. If I'm looking for EMarts in Busan, I don't want the map to jump to Pyeongyang. Would be nice if intercity and express buses had their times listed. Everything else is fairly functional.

No navigation cues, all key information is in Korean. It doesn't even understand an address if it's in English. Mostly had no help from the app when I used this for biking and had to rely on locals pointing me in the right direction. Would also help if the app actually tells me my present location and gives me verbal cues instead of me having to check the screen for directions

It's a real mess with a very partial english translation. It's slow, doesn't give much information and there is a lot of place that it doesn't find. Even so, it's stil' better than Line map (Which wasn't hard ...)

If you learn to read Korean, this app will get you anywhere in the country. Works great all over Korea, even small unpopulated islands!! Great app!

I love this app. It's UI is cleaner and more intuitive than the competition. It connects well to other apps. I also applaud the English language support which is great for tourists and expats. **But please include a faster toggle between English and Korean. Maybe in the maps settings filters. It's too deep in the settings, when asking for help from a Korean or showing the address to a taxi driver. Showing the address in both English and Korean would be helpful.**

It's pretty amazing that this day in age 2019 Google Maps is still largely disfunctional in South Korea. Talk about a country that is so clueless about tourism and wonders why people still choose Japan first. KakaoMaps is sadly your best alternative but not surprising it's still no match for the quality and design Google Maps has.

Probably, the best navigation guide in South Korea. It would be even more handy if people in charge add some minor features. For example, I am in Jongno-gu, Seoul right now and after a while I need a pharmacy in Gangnam-gu. In such cases, it would be better if the app also shows 'pharmacy', 'ATM', 'convenience store', etc on the top of the searchbox for the searched district, not only for current location.

Used this on my trip to korea. It was the first time I used the subways and busses there, but it was very convenient with this app. It even alerts you when it is time to get off and starts to remind from one station before your destination arrives. Thanks to this app i got to conveniently use the busses there without any problem

Good, but really want addresses shown in Korean too. If I use this to show a Korean or use car GPS I need to see the 한굴 version too. Keep it up!

Definitely No. 1 navigation app in Korea. Easy to use and informs lots of useful transportaion information, eapecially a public transportation.

Navigation directions rendered and station names are correct. However, the app is not friendly for an individual who cannot read korean. I would suggest using other Apps that provide English context to navigate in Seoul for the moment until the language capability for this App is enhanced.

extremely useful. able to search and read in English. complete bus to subway routes. Travel time estimates sometimes off. Biking travel times are for speed bikes, not for hybrids or city bikes.

This app is really helpful! (thanks for the creator of this app) for all of the foreign people who will visit south korea, but their's one thing problem in this app, although its translated in english but the information of bus/subway is not translated in english this is the most important , i really hope you will fix this one cause you will help many foreign people to give a smooth flow in their vacation.

Useful and easy to navigate. My problem is some exit numbers are not shown. I still used this even after my trip to bookmark places in Korea.

Favorite Map Service in Korea. I like that I'm able to see/find bus stops and get pretty accurate times of the arrival. I also like that I can call Kakao Taxi through this app. One thing I don't like is that I'm unable to search for locations in English on my app, unless it's saved. My app is in English though. I don't have really any other issues/complaints. I share many locations with friends through Kakao and other message applications.

It would have been very hard visiting Seoul without this app. Nice job! One suggestion though (from a tourist point of view) : sometimes is not easy to find locations by name because some places only have their Korean name. It would be great if that could be improved so a location can be found by searching for it using multiple names.

I think you and naver map should collaborate. If you guys shared ideas, the map will be more helpful/detailed. I hate when I have to switch between the apps. I can read/understand(%) hangul but for other foreigners it would be difficult, especially they're only here temporarily. If there's an option, most foreigners will not be dependent on google map while they're in S. Korea because I think you're map combined with naver is better. Also, I'm irritated when my SAVED FAVORITES disappears and I ha

It's just OK. I can change the language to English on the app but it only changes the map itself. Most of everything else with notifications, directions, etc. is still in Korean.

Mixed feelings about this app. I have set the language to English, but when I get the travelling instructions it shows the names in Korean, which doesn't help with station names or direction of transport. I have thus not used it. It however shows options when Google maps says it can't.

recommended as Most useful for non korean speakers... but when it provides transport options. the name of the train/metro stations are in Korean! so how is that Useful and user friendly to non korean speakers!? 🤔😑🙄 Still need to Improve for sure...

1. Public transit: available | 2. Routes and navigation assist: available | 3. Approx. fuel cost: NOT available | 4. Toll avoidance: NOT available | Search business by category: NOT available | 5. Category accuracy: worse than Google Maps | 6. Search result coverage: worse than Naver | 7. Leave review: available 8. Secure Folder: NOT compatible | 8. Access to user contacts: required

I like the app! Unfortunately despite having the settings in English, the turn by turn instructions are all in Korean. So i can't read which road to turn on to. I hope that can be fixed!