Talk:Korea (South)/@comment-121.156.222.212-20170814100353/@comment-28786381-20170829045342

Sorry I didn't see this earlier.

Residents actually pay quite a lot for cell service as well. The telecom providers have everyone hooked onto cell service (of course). One of my friends pays 100,000 won/month for a normal individual plan with unlimited data. That makes airport SIM rentals look cheap. However, I'm sure there are other residents who don't pay nearly as much.

Regardless, the options here are definitely more expensive than other countries. In my opinion, KT/olleh SIM rental seems to be the best option for most, especially since it's easiest to obtain. I also recently discovered that the data-only KT SIM does not need to be returned, despite there being a field for return-date on the order form.

By the way, when I mentioned that rentals are the way to go, I really meant SIM rentals. Device rentals shouldn't really happen any more, but the option is there, and Wi-Fi hotspot rentals are ok, not great. They all use 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, which can be crowded and slow. I've finally ditched Wi-Fi completely after 4 trips on Wi-Fi hotspots and 6 trips on SIMs.

Every device that I see out there is definitely an LTE device. They advertise it really strongly in Korea, and the low latency really helps when you're zipping between microcells in the underground subway.

I'd say that I know the Korean SIM market pretty well now, but maybe not, because I have heard some success stories of getting SKTelecom SIMs, but have yet to experience it myself. May need to throw some more money down the drain for science. I may spend some time refactoring some of the sections.