DON'T GET a SIM Card in Korea Until You Watch This Video! - YouTube

You get to Korea, and you're like. I need a phone.

I need to be able to contact people. Well, your immediate option is available straight outside the gate at the convenience store.

You're going to see SIM

written in big letters.

But as you probably know the first option might not be the best option and the best option

might be a little bit further afield, it will be worth it, worth the journey and worth the effort you put in

to get this little deal.

We're about to tell you right now. Now when you arrive at the airport

everything is more expensive, Of course. You know, they want to get money from tourists. They're going to present this easy option. You can just

speak English. You just walk in "I need a sim card, please." "Oh. Yeah, sure." BAM. Here's a sim card. Take your money. BAM.

You're on your own you're gone. But Haeppy's going to explain in very nice great

detail, this little bit, you will need some Korean, but you're going to be saving money. You're probably gonna be way happier and

everyone will love you. That's not guaranteed.

Before I start, just a little bit of information about what you can get at the airport. If you're here for like three or four days

don't bother with the option that we're going to tell you about. Go get that prepaid card from them- from the airport.

Because otherwise, it's just too much of a hassle AND technically you'll be paying less.

Unfortunately, the prepaid SIMs at the airport will only give you 3G internet

I believe. But if you're here for three or four days, that's really all you need.

There's another option like buying one of those Wi-Fi eggs. That's like a whole different thing as well.

We're not going to talk about that. On this episode we're going to talk about

prepaid plans that tourists or that

non-Koreans and also people without an alien registration card can get.

(Xander): Step one - Find a Store.

Korea is littered with cell phone stores owned by three different service providers.

SKT, so SK Telecom.

Kt, or Korea Telecom, and

LG U+ (LG Uplus). I suggest never to go to the Lg U+ if you're going to get something, go ahead with SKT or Kt

And if we ever say "go to an Lg U+" in the future, they paid us to say it. Xander and I, we use SKT.

We compared all the plans and fared all the rates and SKT came out on top. From our experience

we only really know about SKT so we're going to teach you about SKT.

You might have to find another video about Kt (Korea Telecom).

With SKT, you can go to the store and you can ask them for prepaid

plan.

You can probably say it in English, just be like "tourist."

"Tourist."

KOREAN LESSON TIME!

Yeo-Haeng Ha-Reo Wass-Seum-ni-da

Yeo-Haeng = Travel

and then the rest is, basically "I came to travel"

That's what the line is. I'm not going to teach you why.

Just memorize it.

The moment you say that, they're going to know you don't have an ARC (Alien Registration Card)

and you're not a Korean. If you look like Xander

they'll already know you're not Korean.

Once you say that they're probably going to be like *blah blah blah* *gibberish*

And you just say "prepaid" "Prepaid." Flash them your cash.

At first they'll offer you something for 30,000 won.

For 30,000 won at SKT, you'll get 2 GB of LTE internet.

So data and also a certain amount of minutes.

I suggest you don't ever use the minutes. Use your internet for communication. If you're there, and you're streaming stuff

and you're watching YouTube it's gonna rack up on you.

Don't take the $30, unless you think that you're only going to use 2GBs.

Ask them for the 5 GB option.

O-Gi-Ga

You can guess what "Gi-Ga" means. "O" is five. That option should be 45,000 won.

The great thing about SKT is that there is no time limit on your

prepaid minutes and data. It might have changed, but before when I had friends that were with Kt. They said that with Kt

every month you have to re-up whether or not you use the minutes or data.

It's kind of their way to force prepaid plan users to keep paying money.

With SKT your minutes and your data lasts until you run out. Once it runs out you have the option to re-up for

10,000 won, or re-up like a larger amount for however many you want, I think up to 5 gigs.

Depending on your location, in Seoul

I had to pay

around 8,000 won, maybe 9,000 won for a sim card, a new sim card. When my brother came at out I did this for him.

In Suwon, they gave it to us for free.

[Xander] That might just be from the kindness of the guy we don't know.

[Haeppy] It might just be the kindness of the guy. [Xander] We don't know.

We have no idea. You may need to pay for the sim card.

It's not them like

cheating you or anything or saying you have to pay for something that you don't. There is that Sim card fee and it's up to

the store owner or the person working to waive it for you. You will need to bring your passport.

They'll make a copy of your passport, they'll fill out all the forms for you

and then you give them the cash at the end.

They'll help you install it and everything like that. Another thing that you might have to think about, every country has their own LTE

bands that they use. iPhone users

don't have to worry, every single iphone is okay with every band in the world. Samsung phones as well should be international bands

but if you have like an older phone

you might need to check online whether or not you have the bands that Korea offers.

Here are the frequencies for SKT.

This option is better for those who are staying for

anywhere between 2 weeks and up. Because the stuff that you buy at the convenience store in the airport, it gives you like

1.5 GBs for like 20 bucks AND it's 3G.

If you're staying for any longer than a week, get the other prepaid plan.

So be smart, don't sit there on Facebook

scrolling through watching videos. Videos are VERY BAD. Instagram videos are also VERY bad.

They will eat up all your data. Tinder will eat up your data

but like...that's worth it. If it works out it's worth it.

Get some apps. We'll do a whole video separately about this but I just recommend KakaoTalk, for one, because everyone uses that to communicate and it's

really really quick and it's very low data usage. Get Naver Maps because you're going to need that for getting around anyway.

That's pretty much the only two you need, I think, but we'll do a more in depth video about that.

But just be smart. Because you don't, unless you're rich then go fucking ahead, you spend your money but you know 5 GBs.

I'm on a contract which is like 20 GBs a month and I use about 11 or 12

I think, a month. I do a lot of stuff on my phone.

So just as a heads up you may rinse your day real quick.

Just be smart about it

and you'll have a great time.

And I hope this video was useful. I hope if it works out. If you have run into problems

write them in the comments and then we can hopefully address them. That might help other people

if this wasn't enough being but unless the person working in the store really doesn't want to deal with you

which hopefully they will, they should be nice, they might not want to deal with you and go "Oh no no, we don't do it."

But they do. So if you have any other problems just let us know and hopefully everyone can get this amazing data plan.

Thank you very much for watching and as always

Stay Fancy.