Korean Job Discussion Forums

rfung · Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA

I was there last year in october and possibly planning a trip again - Iphones are out in Korea now, but just wanted to know the latest if a phone brought in from the US will work with a local simcard, or Korean telecom companies still own the phones in their networks by having the IMEI's registered?

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

1. Try the search.

2. Try the search.

3. Wrong forum.

4. http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=190112

5. To answer your question, all cell phones still need to be whitelisted on Korean networks.

jomiro · Joined: 10 Jan 2010

cell phones dont have sim cards here.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

Jake_Kim · Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Location: Seoul

Technically yes, practically no, because you wouldn't want to pay some 260 dollars for government certification which is mandatory under the law, not to mention jumping through the hoops of all the paperwork in Korean.

If you do go through all that for whatever reason, then SKT or KT doesn't mind and will open a subscription account for you. (Both have already done so for quite a few people with overseas iPhone 3GS & 4)