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Re: [97attendees] SIM card for Seoul

Daniel Shaw <daniel@afrinic.net> Sun, 13 November 2016 06:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [97attendees] SIM card for Seoul
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I went for a KT 1GB set up as I’m very confident I won’t use more than that in 1 week.

I stumbled on a KT store yesterday, right next to the entrance to the Yeouido subway stop - they don’t have the same KT sims in the store as in the airport that are self-setup. And zero English.

However, as I was ok to sit and wait for a while, they where happy to sort everything out. They initially phoned and English teacher one of the staff knew to get translated what was looking for, took a photocopy of my passport and then proceeded to activate, set up and test the SIM for me fully.

They bill separately for:
micro-sim - ₩ 8800
activation/calls - ₩ 5000 (even though I don’t need calling, this was a mandatory part of the process, apparently).
1 GB data - ₩ 14300

Total paid in cash: ₩ 28100 and I walked out happy with a fully working LTE connection. The only downside was them typing in all my info, plus activating the SIM in the phone all took around 20 minutes or so.

Cheers,
Daniel

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