⭐️ Total score | 3.09/5 (Rank #664) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,911 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 28Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 28°C82°F (feels 28°C82°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 44% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 62 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 78 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $2,315 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | South Korea |
⏱ Average trip length | 10 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 28 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 28°C 82°F + 😊 Comfy (44%) = feels 28°C 82°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 62 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 78.25 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | SK Telecom |
💸 10,000 KRW in USD | USD 7.97 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | KRW 100,000 = USD 80 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Bene |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $27,785 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Gmarket |
🏠 Apartment listings | Stayes |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jeju Air |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Korean Air |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,911 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,056 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,410 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $689 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $405 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $228 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,433 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $67 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 115 listings) | $1,501 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $49 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 341° cold | 457° cold | 5714° cool | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 8228° warm | 10239° hot | 9133° hot | 7524° warm | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 457° cold |
Real | 362° very cold | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7926° warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7524° warm | 6418° cool | 5614° cool | 457° cold |
Humidity | nice 57% | nice 57% | nice 70% | nice 54% | nice 66% | nice 77% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 86% | nice 82% | nice 75% | nice 70% | nice 64% |
Rain | dry 16mm | dry 24mm | rainy 109mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 114mm | rainy 97mm | rainy 267mm | rainy 238mm | rainy 129mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 68mm | dry 2mm |
Cloud | pockets 48% | pockets 37% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 50% | pockets 46% | pockets 28% |
Air quality | bad 107 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | okay 85 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | okay 74 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 300 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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