Korean Job Discussion Forums

[pollyplummer]

My friend in the U.K. wants to call my cell phone. I'm with SK Telecom, if that matters. So does he dial 82-10- then my number? This is what I told him to do, and I dont think it's working. Should it be 82-010- then my number? OR is there something else you have to do to reach a cell phone in Korea? My korean friends all give me different answers. I'm not having much luck with the search either. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Wangja]

Drop the leading zero after the country code.

So, from UK (or anywhere, of course) + 82 10 nnn nnnn.

[schwa]

82-10 is right but the caller needs a first prefix to indicate a long-distance provider. Dont know what that would be but someone here will chime in.

[pollyplummer]

I think maybe the problem is that they gave me this really long number. (I just got this phone yesterday, so I'm completely unfamiliar with it) They told me that my phone number is 010-nnnn-nnnn This seems like one too many digits to me. 4 digits, then 4 more digits. That's the number they wrote at the top of my paper. But how can I know which digit to drop?

[Tiger Beer]

[kangnamdragon]

All new phone numbers have 8 digits. 10 is the area code. Just dial the international code + 10 + xxxx-xxxx.