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stefanie1011
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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 Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:08 pm Post subject: KOREA MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER |
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| Which Korea mobile service provider is better? SK, KT, LG U? |
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motiontodismiss
Joined: 18 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| From what I heard and IME, SK>>=KT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LGU+. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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10 years with LG and I have no complaints.
The are the most foreign friendly but they don't have all the bells and whistles of SK.
There is NO good reason to use KT for phone service.
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Network Infrastructure
1. SK
2. LG
3. KT
4G Data
1. LG
2. SK
3. KT
Phone Models
1. SK = KT tied
2. LG
Foreigner 'Friendly'
1. LG (English bills, easy signup)
2. KT
3. SK |
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stefanie1011
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:08 am Post subject: |
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What I plan is, to buy a sumsang phone and use in with prepaid service.
Can foreigner buy a sumsang phone without contract? Will there be a lot of documents required to buy a phone? |
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modernseoul
Joined: 11 Sep 2011
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| stefanie1011 wrote: |
What I plan is, to buy a sumsang phone and use in with prepaid service.
Can foreigner buy a sumsang phone without contract? Will there be a lot of documents required to buy a phone? |
You can however it will expensive, the only document required is your ARC card. |
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stefanie1011
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| modernseoul wrote: |
| stefanie1011 wrote: |
What I plan is, to buy a sumsang phone and use in with prepaid service.
Can foreigner buy a sumsang phone without contract? Will there be a lot of documents required to buy a phone? |
You can however it will expensive, the only document required is your ARC card. |
But it will be more cheaper than buying in my own country right? Since samsung is from Korea. |
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Nismo
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| KT is terrible. I still have about eight months of my two-year-contract left with them. |
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stefanie1011
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| KT is terrible. I still have about eight months of my two-year-contract left with them. |
Why do you say KT is terrible? |
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Nismo
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| stefanie1011 wrote: |
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| KT is terrible. I still have about eight months of my two-year-contract left with them. |
Why do you say KT is terrible? |
I frequently have poor reception, though that may just be my bad luck. My office in particular has no reception. Sometimes, despite having full reception and 3G on, for whatever reason I can't access the net (or use apps like Kakaotalk). Twenty minutes later, it is fine again. No rhyme or reason. Also, I am often left without an olleh wifi connection point out in public, despite seeing a ton of LG U+ connection points available.
I also have KT internet service at home and I'm not that impressed with that either. I think I've become anti-KT at this point. |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
10 years with LG and I have no complaints.
The are the most foreign friendly but they don't have all the bells and whistles of SK.
There is NO good reason to use KT for phone service.
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Unless of course you wanted an iPhone when they were first released in Korea.
No complaints with KT over the past two years. Was with SK before that and would eate them slightly lower although no real complaints either.
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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You should be able to get everything from KT in English these days with their global stores.
I find their 3G in some places to be terrible, but perhaps with the LTE stuff and the next iphone it should be better. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
10 years with LG and I have no complaints.
The are the most foreign friendly but they don't have all the bells and whistles of SK.
There is NO good reason to use KT for phone service.
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Unless of course you wanted an iPhone when they were first released in Korea.
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The main reason I switched from SK to KT was because of the iPhone launch. Now KT has got a vicegrip on my you-know-what. |
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justpale
Joined: 29 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| any updates on this 5-year-old thread? |
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Mariner
Joined: 24 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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The last several posts are from 2012.
As to domestic products being cheaper in their country of origin, its vastly more complicated than that. In some instances, such as TVs and Cars, they are actually cheaper in the US than they are in Korea. Even if they are made here. |
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