It’s 2025, and if you try to get walking directions in Seoul using Google Maps, you will still run into the same dead end: the "Can't find a way there" screen.

[LEE SOO-JUNG] Liberal lawmakers and academic experts urged South Korea to continue withholding detailed map data from Google, stressing that providing it could pose “serious threat to national ...

In South Korea, the problem of being unable to use Google Maps' walking route guidance and other features continues even in 2025, causing inconvenience to many tourists. For many years ...

South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer the high-precision map data it has on the country’s geography to its international servers.

If you plan to visit South Korea, be sure to download Naver Map before you go. Naver Map is the Google Maps of South Korea, and it features nearly everything you would expect to find in Google ...

As of Wednesday, Naver Maps only supported those searches in Korean. Google Maps, which is not widely used in South Korea, did not list bomb shelters as of Wednesday. Shelters across South Korea ...

Google says it needs South Korea’s best map. But that’s only half the story. The map at the centre of this issue is a government-built, high-resolution 1:5000 digital base map maintained by ...

“If Google can make it work in North Korea,” Choi said, “then clearly the map is not the only barrier.” To be fair, this doesn’t mean Apple Maps’ walking routes in South Korea are ...