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Things to do, events on now, places to visit, day plans and Korea travel tools
🗺️ Playground — fun things to do and places to visit, in one app. Places, curated collections and events currently cover Seoul: the map and the Near you list show places in Seoul, and What's on lists events running in Seoul. Start from what's on right now — exhibitions, performances, festivals and hands-on programs — next to places near you and hand-picked collections you can save for later. Built for visitors and locals alike, with the practical Korea know-how a map app never tells you. ▣ WHAT'S ON • Exhibitions, performances, festivals and hands-on programs that are running now • The venue and dates on each card • Refreshed daily from public open data • Tap through to the event's page for times and details ▣ PLACES NEAR YOU • Places around you on a Google Map, filtered by category and radius • Markers grouped into clusters as you zoom out • Distance from you, nearest first • Find a place by name or category as you type, or browse by category chip ▣ CURATED COLLECTIONS • Themed collections, each with a written introduction • Save a whole collection, or single places, and open them again later ▣ DAY PLANS • Build a trip day by day from the places you saved • Name each day, add or remove stops, reorder them, move a stop to the next day • Days show real dates once you set a start date ▣ REVIEWS • Read reviews and average ratings, or filter to the ones written by visitors • Write your own with a rating, and edit or delete it any time • Reviews in another language are translated on your phone as you read ▣ AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION • Collection intros, guides and reviews are translated into your phone's language on the device itself • No button to press and nothing sent to a server — the language pack downloads once, then works offline ▣ KOREA ESSENTIALS • Arrival essentials — getting in from Incheon Airport, your first T-money card, staying connected, and why people here use Naver Map or Kakao Map instead of Google Maps • Emergency contacts — 119, 112, the 1330 travel hotline and 1339 medical advice, one tap to dial and available offline, with your current location ready to copy or share • Dietary card — halal, no pork, vegetarian, vegan, not spicy and your own allergies, written out in Korean for restaurant staff, with Korean text-to-speech if you'd rather not read it aloud • "Before you go" etiquette notes on restaurant, cafe, bar and attraction pages ▣ GETTING THERE • Directions open in the map app that works in Korea — Naver Map, then Kakao Map • Open Kakao T to book a taxi, or show the name and address full-screen in Korean to a driver or staff • Tap an address to copy it, tap a phone number to call ▣ THE SMALL THINGS • Recently viewed places waiting on the My tab • Light and dark theme that follows your system setting • English and Korean interface ▣ PERMISSIONS • Location (optional) — to show places near you and center the map • Notifications (optional) — asked once during onboarding, and you can decline without losing anything ■ Please note • Saving places and building day plans need no sign-up — you are signed in anonymously. Adding an email is optional and only matters if you want the same saves on another phone. • Opening hours appear only where a place actually has them. ■ Data sources Event listings use public open data from: • Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Open Data Plaza — https://data.seoul.go.kr • Korea Culture Information Service Agency, Culture Portal — https://www.culture.go.kr • Korea Arts Management Service, KOPIS — https://www.kopis.or.kr • Korea Tourism Organization, TourAPI — https://api.visitkorea.or.kr Playground is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated on behalf of any government agency. Download Playground and pick where you're going today.