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juchangok
Joined: 15 Jan 2009
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 Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject: Does the Iphone work with Korean carriers? |
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| I was wondering if an Iphone would work with any of the Korean carriers. If someone could enlighten me with an answer I'd greatly appreciate it. |
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scotty12347
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen posts on here of people who have enabled their iphone with KT.
Theres a couple of iphone threads in the tech bord, it should say in those. |
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UrbanStyle
Joined: 23 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| what about the samsung alias 2? |
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juchangok
Joined: 15 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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dang you just jackin my thread haha. jp... Well I hope that's true, because I bought an Iphone before I decided to go teach English in Korea.
Edit: A friend of mine was also wondering if Google's Droid phone works with Korean carrier. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Only phones sold by korean carrier would work in korea. Each service provider only alows phones that their retail outlets sell operate on their networks. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| ulsanchris wrote: |
| Only phones sold by korean carrier would work in korea. Each service provider only alows phones that their retail outlets sell operate on their networks. |
Not true. My friend's boss has an iPhone working on the SK network right now. He bought it in America, had it modded, paid the import taxes, etc. All told, I was told it cost over 1.5million won, but he is happy. |
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steveohan
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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if you want to have your iphone "certified" for korean use there are two things you must do:
1. make sure your iphone is hardware unlocked.
2. pay a 500,000 won "certification" fee to the kcc.
then you can use it. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| steveohan wrote: |
if you want to have your iphone "certified" for korean use there are two things you must do:
1. make sure your iphone is hardware unlocked.
2. pay a 500,000 won "certification" fee to the kcc.
then you can use it. |
500,000원 is extortion for them just to put a lousy KCC sticker on it. I'm betting. |
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steveohan
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| ^ yup! i just read that over 100 people have applied for the 'certificate'. 100 people x 500,000 won...korea. |
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juchangok
Joined: 15 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the replies, but wow.. I think I'll just sell my iphone to someone here and buy a phone there perhaps. Doesn't seem worth it to me to pay all that extra just to have an Iphone there... Thanks again guys for the replies.. |
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Chris_Dixon
Joined: 09 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| ulsanchris wrote: |
| Only phones sold by korean carrier would work in korea. Each service provider only alows phones that their retail outlets sell operate on their networks. |
not true, it just depends on the networks.... |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| im not so tech savvy, but a friend of mine jailbroke his i-phone to work here, said it was common for those in the know. pm me for his info/details. |
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juchangok
Joined: 15 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:54 am Post subject: |
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| After you jailbreak an Iphone (Which I have no problem doing) will you still have to pay all those fees that previous posters mentioned? If so there still is no point for me to do that. I might as well sell it here and buy a new phone in Korea. |
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TKDBOY
Joined: 25 Feb 2008
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| juchangok wrote: |
| Thanks for the replies, but wow.. I think I'll just sell my iphone to someone here and buy a phone there perhaps. Doesn't seem worth it to me to pay all that extra just to have an Iphone there... Thanks again guys for the replies.. |
what iphone do you have? might be interested in buying it if it is 3g/3gs .... drop me a line if you seriously want to sell it ...  |
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Leafs42084
Joined: 31 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| i_teach_esl wrote: |
| im not so tech savvy, but a friend of mine jailbroke his i-phone to work here, said it was common for those in the know. pm me for his info/details. |
I wouldnt call myself tech saavy either but jailbreaking has nothing to do with unlocking. Jailbreaking will let you mod your iphone so you can have themes and free apps and such.
Unlocking is so that you can use it on different carriers...
However, from what I know, most carriers back home are GSM, as in you can move your sim card from phone to phone with no problem... while Korea is CDMA and therefore will not work with the Iphones from back home.
If I am wrong, that would be awesome since I brought my Iphone from home and am currently using it as a mp3/video player. |
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