A Fine Supplement, a Poor Foundation! How Far Free Wifi Gets You in Seoul—Connecting, the Three Places It Fails, Offline Maps and Translation, and Battery, the Other Problem
Seoul has a lot of public wifi: metro stations, carriages, buses, cafes, civic buildings. Here’s the thing: it is not always comfortable—captive portals, busy-hour slowdowns, patchy outdoors. Following a map on foot, translating at a shop counter and banking logins are the three things wifi alone will not do, so a layer of offline maps, language packs and screenshots is what steadies the trip.
