It’s 2025, and if you try to get walking directions in Seoul using Google Maps, you will still run into the same dead end: the "Can't find a way there" screen.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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.