South Korea's GPS navigation Get started right away
* Experience the completely new NAVER Map.
※ Are you traveling Korea?
Don't miss the smart tips to use NAVER Map: https://naver.me/GfCSj5Ut
[Key features]
- Map Home Menu Tab
You can now conveniently use the Discover, Bookmark, Transit, Navigation, and MY tabs on the Home.
- Simplified search
Search locations, buses, subway, and more in a comprehensive search bar.
- Booking
Explore a new Booking tab, a space that brings together businesses and products available for booking on NAVER. From nearby restaurants, hair salons, amusement parks, one-day classes to even train tickets, you can find them all in one place on the booking tab.
- Discover
Helps you find new places nationwide and nearby. Enjoy real-time rankings, recommendation feeds, trending spots, bookmarked lists, and coupon offers.
- Navigation
Fast and accurate navigation with real-time traffic info and optimized usability for any driving condition.
- Vector map
360 degrees rotation-enabled vector map with 3D view of key landmarks via tilting.
- Transit
You can easily reach your destination by using transit directions for various modes of transportation, real-time departure and arrival times, and notifications for when to get on/off.
- Street view
Seamless street and aerial views provided for location search and route planning.
- Bookmark
Easily save your best restaurants and must-visit tourist spots on NAVER Map and share them with others.
- MY
View all your maps, reviews, and bookings in one place and write reviews with ease.
- Instant search
View useful info about your query, such as opening/closing times for supermarkets while you search.
- Language
Korean/English/Japanese/Chinese maps and English navigation provided.
*Requires iOS 16.0 or later
*Find out more tips on how to use NAVER Map
- NAVER Map customer service: http://naver.me/GYywEiT4
- NAVER Map blog: https://blog.naver.com/naver_map
- Email: naver_market@naver.com
- Tel: 1588-3820
- Address: 95, Jeongjail-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
* Permissions for using NAVER Maps
- Location: Used to show your location on the map so you can get directions and use navigation.
- Microphone: Used for voice search and Clova voice commands.
- Camera: Used for suggesting edits to place information, verifying MY Place receipts, providing AR directions, scanning QR codes, and verifying passports.
- Contacts: Used to make calls with Clova voice commands and to save phone numbers from place search results.
- Photos: Used to select photos for suggesting edits to place information and writing MY Place reviews.
- Motion & Fitness: Used to detect steps for AR directions and walking directions.
- Notifications: Used to send important notices, events, and promotional information.
- Allow Tracking: Used to deliver content and ads that match your interests and to limit inappropriate ads.
I arrived in Seoul, Korea, three days ago and was recommended Navver by a hostel mate I met in Okinawa. Despite my initial apprehension due to some negative reviews, I decided to give it a try, and I am glad I did! Navver has proven to be a high-performing app, possibly one of the best I have used. It stands out by providing rich detail through live activities on iPhones with dynamic island support and helpful notifications on the home screen. The audio guidance is clear and precise, making navigation through the bustling streets of Seoul a breeze. What impressed me the most is Navver’s eagerness to deliver an exceptional navigation experience in a major city. The app is incredibly helpful, and I found it to be more detailed and user-friendly than Apple Maps in many aspects. My only feedback is that for those who cannot read Korean, including tourists, the station numbers are not shown in the app (additional some gate entry doesn’t match the maps guidance making hard to determine which line direction to enter). Adding station numbers would make it much easier to quickly understand one’s location and navigate to the next station, similar to the system in China. Overall, I really like the app experience. With minor adjustments, Navver has the potential to be a major competitor to Google Maps and Apple Maps. Highly recommended for anyone navigating Seoul!
Decent
Alvie666
Has lots of good features and works fairly well most of the time. It does have weird annoying quirks. An example is a recent stay at a well known large hotel in Gangnam. It would never correctly set my location at this hotel, it kept insisting I was 80 feet away across the street. The other super annoying thing is that there isn’t an simple “end route” or cancel option, at least that I could figure out, so once I committed to a route and started travel, I couldn’t get it to stop running and trying to direct me. There are certain things that are just not intuitive. BTW, Google Maps worked just as well for directions in the Gangnam area.
Holy grail of solo travel
Mariah Ae😂✨
Did a 3 month solo travel to South Korea and I used this app every day, not kidding. My Korean is very veryyy limited and I grew up in a countryside so had no experience with public transportation or cities other than airport “subways” lol. This accurately told bus arrival times, gave detailed information and graphics for getting from one place to another, you can save restaurants and shops (even super obscure ones you wouldn’t think would be listed, I went outside of main cities a lot) in different folder types and the markings of the folder color show up on the map all together. Very helpful for planning out stations, where to eat, where you’re staying, how to get literally anywhere. I’m so grateful to this app where I didn’t have to ask any strangers directions to places, a lifesaver for introverts and anyone who isn’t versed in traveling Korea. I’ll always download it when I visit. So many grumpy reviews, yet this was a lifesaver for me!!!!
Excellent app if you don’t understand Korean
Jurgis_Keliautojas
I don’t know where all those bad reviews coming but this is the best app you want to use it in English. When using public transportation it’s 100% everything in English compared to their competitors app when you create directions all public transportation navigation is in Korean language so if you don’t understand then you don’t know where to go. Make sure you allow in settings to use your location. It’s not as good as google maps but very close to it. Thumbs up for devs who work on this project from fellow developer :) The only thing reviews section only in Korean language so can’t leave reviews and yes if you read this review please add translation to reviews so we can translate even if we can’t leave it. I think Google translate API should be good thing to integrate for it.
● Discover
Added categories for browsing the recommended review & Clip feed by business type
● Walking
Added today's step tracking with stats for steps, distance, and calories
● Go
Merged the Transit & Navigation tabs into one
Added rankings for nearby places people are heading to as their destination
Added transit vehicle locations in real time
● Navigation
Added business details, travel time, and more when searching for places in the Navigation tab
Enhanced EV charging station information
