Seoul Survivor 
Well, the first week is almost over. Getting around the city is easy using the T-money card for subway and bus. Being able to read 한굴 helps a lot. Most of the station names are written in English but sometimes you only find a map in Korean.
A little more complicated is to find places of interest. I am not speaking of tourist attractions, which are well advertised. The more basic things, like super markets, book shops, where to eat. For most western countries you can easily use
Google Maps to find an address. Here in Korea, I first had to find a map service I understand. The city of Seoul provides
Congnamul which turns out to only work with Windows and only contains tourist places it seems. However,
Naver Maps seems to do the job. It allows a search for addresses (in Korean) or names of companies.
As an example, I was looking for "Homever" (홈에버). It can be found using that name or you take a look at the
Homever homepage, select 서울 with one of the locations and use the address "서울 양천구 목동 919-2" as search term.
Unfortunately there is just one conveniently located Homever near my office right now. But we are looking for another place to live anyway.
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mariann, one year and 102 days ago.
