41. Is there any place ( Internet cafe, public library, etc) in Korea where travellers can access the Internet?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
41. Is there any place ( Internet cafe, public library, etc) in Korea where travellers can access the Internet?
There are tens of Internet cafes in Seoul and
other large cities in Korea. Jung, Chan-gyu at
mg18xx@soback.kornet.nm.kr visited five of
them(listed first) in Seoul and kindly posted
detailed information about them to Hangul Usenet
newsgroup han.comp.internet. Here's summary of his
posting.
Netscape
o Phone: +82 (0)2 336 6345
o Location: Between Hongik Univ. and Mapo public
library, Seoul
o Facility: 256kbps dedicated link, 1 SGI Indy
server, 20 Pentium PC, 5 Power Mac
o Hour: 10am - 7pm
o Rate: 1,000 won for every 10 min.
Web Space(www.webspace.co.kr)
o Phone: +82 (0)2 313 7671
o Location: Between Shinchon rotary and Yonsei
Univ.
o Facility: 512kbps dedicated link, 1 server, 19
Pentium PC,Fax,Printer
o Hour: 10am - 12pm
o Rate: 5,000 won for the first 2 hours and
2,000 won for each additional 30 minute.
Cyber Club
o Phone: +82 (0)2 557 7900
o Location: Near Exit 1 at Kangnam subway(no. 2
line) stop, Seoul
o Facility: 256kbps dedicated link, 15 Pentium
PC,Fax,Printer
o Hour: 10am - 10:30pm
o Rate: 2,000 won for admission and 1,000 won
for every half-hour
O2 Cyber Cafe(www.o2nuri.co.kr)
o Phone: +82 (0)2 745 6281(voice), 261-0487(Fax)
o Location: Between Hyehwa-dong rotary and
Seong-kyun-kwan Univ.
o Facility: 256kbps dedicated link, 13
PCs(Pentium,Mac, 486)
o Hour: open through late night.
o Rate: 2,000 won for the first 30min. and 500
won for each additional 10min.
Net
o Phone: +82 (0)2 733 7973
o Location: Across Kyo-bo bookstore, Seoul
o Facility: 128kbps dedicated link, 11
PCs(Pentium, 486)
o Hour: Mon-Sat ; 10am - 11pm, Sun,holiday; 1pm
- 10pm
o Rate: 1,000 won for every half hour, 20,000
won per month(member)
Korea Telecom S/W Plaza
o Phone: +82 (0)2 717 0500, +82 (02) 3273 0492
o Location: basement of blue Kook-min bank
building near Yong-san , Seoul electronics
mall
o Facility: 256kbps dedicated link, 5 PCs, 5
termianls for HiTel and other on-line service
o Hour: Mon-Fri; 9am-7pm, Sat; 9am-6pm
o Rate: free of charge(may require membership)
Intergate Cafe(www.intergate.co.kr)
o Phone: +82 (0)2 393-0500
o Location: Near Yonsei Univ., Seoul
o Facility:
o Hour:
o Rate: For membership, 20k won per month for 2
hour daily use and
Net Space
o Phone: +82 (0)2
o Location: Near exit 2 of Seoul Teacher's Univ.
stop of subway line 2
o Facility:
o Hour: 10am-12pm
o Rate:
Orange Blue
o Phone: +82 (0)2 420-9484
o Location: Bet. Chamshil stadium stop and
Shinchon stop of subway line 2 on Olympic
Boulevard,Seoul
o Facility: 128k dedicated line, Pentium PCs,
Laser Printer
o Hour:
Free Cell
o Phone: +82 (0)62 228-0586
o Location: Near Chonnam Nat'l Univ. Hospital,
Kwangju
o Facility:
o Hour:
o Rate:
Starlet
o Phone: +82 (0)2 546-5677
o Location: Near exit 3 of Apgujong stop of
subway line 3
o Facility: 128k dedicated line
o Hour: 11am-12pm, Mon-Sat
o Rate:
Net World(networld.co.kr)
o Phone: +82 (0)
o Location: Chinju
o Facility:
o Hour:
o Rate:
Expo Munhwa Kong-gan
o Phone: +82 (0)42 489-7227
o Location: Across the 3rd government office
complex, Taejon
o Facility:
o Hour:
o Rate: 2k won for 30min for non-member, 2
hr/day free for member
Dream Cafe(www.dream.co.kr)
o Phone: +82 (0)51 518 2827
o Location: Near Pusan Nat'l Univ. main entrance
o Facility:
o Hour:
o Rate: 3,000 won per hour
Surfing Internet
o Phone : +82 (0)2 922 2456
o Location: Near Sungshin Women's Univ.
o Facility: 56kbps dedicated line, 7 Pentium PCs
o Rate: 3,000 won per hour
Web
o Phone : +82 (0)2 325 4563
o Location: Shinchon,Seoul
o Facility: 5 Pentium PCs
o Hour: 10 am - 12 pm
o Rate: 1,500 won per hour for non-member and
30,000 won per month for 1 hour daily use and
email account
Web Village
o Phone : +82 (0)2 3453-4802
o Location: Near Kangnam subway stop,Seoul
o Facility:
o Hour:
o Rate: 2,000 won / 30 min, 5,000 won/day,
unlimited use for 20,000 won/month
NetWorld
o Phone:
o Location: Chinju, Kyongnam
I-space
o Phone: +82 (0)32 862-7799
o Location: Inchon
o Facility: 128kbps dedicated line, 17 Pentium
PCs
Netotica
o Phone:
o Location: Apgujong-dong, Seoul
InterCafe
o Phone: +82 (0)53 943-4800
o Location: Near north gate of Kyungpook Nat'l
University, Taegu
Inter Plaza
o Phone: +82 (0)551 62-0620
o Location: 3rd floor, Samil Sanga, Changwon
o Facility: 56kbp dedicated line
o Rate: 4,500 won per hour
NeoNet
o Phone: +82 (0)342 702-4500
o Location: Sohyung b/d 3rd Fl., Bundang,
Songnam
o Rate: 4,000 won for the 1st hour and 1,000 for
additional 30min. or 30,000 won for monthly
membership.
Now Sarangbang
o Phone: +82 (0)2 517-3690
o Location: Seoul
o Used to be opened exclusively to subscribers
of Nownuri, but now opened to the public.
Com-Tong Sesang
o Phone: +82 (0)2 725-1881
o Location: Near Sisa-English school,Chongno 2
Sonbal
o Phone: +82 (0)2 561 2522
o Location: Near Grand Dept. store, Seoul
o Facilities: T1 line, 30 PCs
Information on Cybercafe Dream in Pusan was
forwarded to me by Lim, John Hoan(at
ohim@www.dream.co.kr). Information on some of the
listed came from an article in Kyunghyang shinmun.
Cha, Young-min at tauzero@rinnet.kimm.re.kr posted
the info. about InterPlaza in Changwon to Usenet
newsgroup han.rec.food. Some cafes were found
using Internet search engines in Korea.
Information on last three entries were posted to
KIDS, an internet BBS in Korea by happyhan.
Telebank plans to open a network of Internet cafes
in major cities in Korea. See
http://www.iplaza.co.kr for details. A list of
Internet cafe(currently listing only 5) can be
found at
http://iis.kaist.ac.kr/~catholic/cafe.html.
The Korean organization committe of Information
Expo 96 made the net-access facilities at
following places available to the general public.
[Posted by Chungho Park at chpark@cybercc.com].
More extensive information on PAP(public access
place) including over 90 public access points as
of May, 1996, is available at
http://seoul.park.org//Places/general.html.
o Seoul, Netscape, 02-749-4367
o Seoul, Isis Co., 02-516-2891
o Seoul, CyberClub 02-557-7900
o Seoul,Dacom headquarter 02-220-0220
o Kwang-myong, city hall 02-686-0011
o Taejon,Chungnam Nat'l Univ. 042-821-6861
o Kongju,Kongju Univ. 0416- 50-8712
o Chongju,Chungbuk Nat'l Univ. 0431- 61-2773
o Chonju,Chonbuk Nat'l Univ. 0652- 70-3509
o Kwangju,Chonnam Nat'l Univ. 062-520-7810
o Cheju, Cheju Nat'l Univ. 064- 54-2261
o Pusan,Pusan Nat'l Univ. 051-510-1860
o Chinju,Kyongsang Nat'l Univ. 0591-751-5132
o Taegu,Kyongbuk Nat'l Univ. 053-950-6656
o Chunchon,Kangwon Nat'l Univ. 0361- 50-8042
Korea Telecom seems to run some public access
sites throuout the nation. One of them is in
Ilsan(suburb of Seoul). For details, contact
spring@www.ktcenter.co.kr. According to
youngja@mail.taegu.net, some public libraries in
Taegu have open-to-public facilities for Internet
access.
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