How To Korea - Episode 5

Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea. We go over a few mishaps that happened in the previous episodes and make sure to reconcile for all of them, being the professionals that we are. We were especially dumbfounded by the nomenclature for clusters of grapes. If you've watched episode 4, you know by now that we had some video issues which we made sure to never have again starting on this episode. South Korea has a lot of tunnels which go through mountains and rivers because the South Korean terrain is very mountain-heavy. You'll see as you're driving that you're either on a bridge connected through a mountain, or in a tunnel going under a mountain or a river. We go over the history of Busan a little bit, and a bit more about the Korean War as well, describing why Busan has the roads that it has. We briefly review the physical locations you can shop at like Daiso, HomePlus, Emart, Costco, and explain why a Korean phone number is essential to accomplish anything in South Korea. We then go into the meat of our episode, dealing with ordering and using Coupang which is basically the Amazon of South Korea. We talk about setting up the Coupang app, ordering anything and everything from Coupang, and using Naver as a replacement if you can't find something on Coupang. Naver Shopping will be your best bet to find something if you can't find it on Coupang. In terms of Coupang Fresh, if you need to order food from Coupang, all you have to do once your receive the food is leave the eco-friendly bags outside your door and the delivery person will pick it back up for you. If they don't pick it up within 30 days, you'll need to request for them to pick it up however, using the Coupang app. We briefly discuss Ian's venture into fixing his own car, and how he used Naver Shopping to save an arm and a leg on the price tag! Then we get into did you know that Hyundai and Kia are basically the same company? The body of their car is exactly the same, but they use different skins on the outside of the car, which give it a distinctly different appearance. Taxi drivers in South Korea are terrible drivers. They stop and go every time, every second, every minute of every kilogram that they drive. Which is why we need to ban electric vehicles for taxi drivers. They're too aggressive and the electric cars react too quickly so by the end of your trip, you're feeling sicker than if you had a bottle of whiskey on the rocks. If you want to save some money on your streaming apps such as Netflix and Disney plus, there's an app called Pickle Plus on Naver that allows you to share your accounts with others. Check it out to save some money on your monthly fees! Amazon Prime still works in South Korea but it's a bit restrictive, in terms of the inventory that's available for sale in South Korea. If you need something, you'll most probably be able to find it on Coupang or Naver, unless it's unique to a specific country like Ian when he needs to buy spices for Biltong. If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time) and we post new How-To videos every Wednesday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows: IG: @howtokorea1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696 E-mail: [email protected] Youtube: @howtokorea1