In March, the U.S. government stated that South Korea “maintains such restrictions on the export of location-based data” in its 2025 National Trade Estimate Report, in which it classified the ...

Google's request for access to a government-supplied map of South Korea to put in its global server has been denied due to 'security concerns'. Written by Cho Mu-Hyun, Contributing Writer Nov. 17 ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — People in South Korea can now use their smartphones to find one of the roughly 17,000 bomb shelters throughout the country in the event of a North Korean attack.

Screenshots from South Korea’s National Geographic Information Institute show the publicly available 1:25,000-scale map (left) and the more detailed 1:5,000-scale map (right).

South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer the high-precision map data it has on the country’s geography to its international servers.

One of the earliest-known East Asian maps of the world was made in Korea in 1402. The map, known as the Kangnido, was lost at some point, but there are three surviving copies that were made ...

From space, the nighttime map of North Korea has a curious distinction: it is almost completely dark. Next door, South Korea glitters with great splotches of economic life, and, on the other side ...

Impact of the South Korea fires The wildfires broke out on Friday, March 21 in South Korea 's southeastern Uiseong county. Since then, 88,500 acres of land have been burned and tens of thousands ...

They say it takes a village to raise a child. But in South Korea, it takes the legacies of a region to create a legendary dish. Ancient royal lunches, former fertilizers, dishes that look too ...

OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced platform, offers walking navigation in South Korea. So does Apple Maps, despite not having access to NGII’s dataset or exporting any official Korean geospatial data.