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Korean Language Help
Listen to native-speaker audio samples for common phrases related to transportation, food, restaurants, and other topics. Record spoken speech and translate to Korean, or simply type a message in your native language and translate to Korean. (Translation functionality is powered by Google Translate).
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Flickr Image Galleries
View images organized by categories related to different areas of Korean culture: K-pop bands, Korean food, etc. Each search item is related to keyword phrases customized to download images specifically relating to the specific areas of Korean culture and filter out any outliers.
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Brainy Bunny Learns Korean
Play "Brain Bunny Learns Korean," a simple 2D side-scrolling platformer where you must collect different kinds of objects and identify their correct Korean name. One point earned for each object whose Korean word is correctly identified.
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Product Prices
View prices for common products in Korea and search via Apple Maps for nearby locations where the items may be sold. Each item category will randomly display product price and other information for a variety of products when clicked. Prices are converted to the native speaker's currency based on the current exchange ratio.
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Region Monitoring
For major tourist regions, make use of Apple's location services and receive notifications when entering and leaving the proximity of a tourist site. Region monitoring for a specific site can be toggled via the "Region Monitoring" option in the main menu, or via the detail page relating to a specific tourist site, which is accessed via the "Seoul Tourism" option in the main menu.
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Navigation Aids
Look up places belonging to various categories (e.g. coffee shop, pub/bar, convenience store, etc.) within specific areas of Seoul (e.g. Itaewon, Insadong, Mapo-gu, etc). Information for places can viewed in tableview format or as annotation visible on the maps for the region selected. In addition, access navigation aids for specific tourist areas (e.g. Seoul Grand Park, Korean War Memorial, etc.), which allows users to view specific points of interest within the region and view pictures and detail information related to that place.
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Weather Forecasts
Get up-to-date weather forecasts for major cities in Korea. Specify the forecast date and period. Forecast information thumbnails provide short summaries and can be clicked to access more detailed weather information for the speicific day being forecasted.
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YouTube Tourism Videos
Search and view videos related to Korean tourism by interacting with YouTube. A built-in YouTube player allows videos of interest to be played based on user-defined or pre-defined search criteria.

FAQs and Common Troubleshooting Issues

What is region monitoring? How do I use region monitoring to find out if I'm close to a tourist site or not??

Region Monitoring allows you to receive notifications when you enter or leave important tourist sites. Region monitoring can be turned on or off in one of two ways: (1) select the "Region Monitoring" option from the App Main Menu and then toggle the switch corresponding to a tourist site in the table view, (2) toggle the switch displayed on the detail page for a tourist site that is displayed after selecting the site from tourist site collection view, which is accessed via the "Seoul Tourism" option from the App Main Menu. When region monitoring is toggled on, you will be prompted to select a monitoring distances of 50, 100, or 200 meters. Shorter distances mean that you will be notified when you are closer to the site.

Help Topics
When do I receive notifications when I am close to a tourist site? I was pretty close to a tourist site but never received a notification. Why not?

Certain conditions have to be met for the user to receive notifications for region boundary crossings. The user has to cross the boundary, move away from the boundary a minimum distance, and also remain away from the boundary crossing for a certain period of time. This is to prevent the user getting notifications haphazardly when the user is close to the boundary region and may be moving in and out of the region unwittingly. In addition to the user-specified region monitoring distances, there is an additional cushion distance of about 200 meters that must be crossed for notifications to occur.

Region Monitroing Help Topics
Why doesn't region monitoring work for my app?

Region monitoring may not work for one of several reasons: (1) The device may not have the hardware needed to support region monitoring, (2) the user denied the app authorization for region monitoring,(3) the user disabled location services in the Settings app, (4) the user disabled background refresh in the Settings app, either for the Seoul Tourism Aid specifically or for the entire device, (5) The device may be in airplane mode. When in airplane mode, the app cannot power up the necessary hardware to support region monitoring. Therefore, check the Setting app to make sure that location services and background refresh is available for the app. Also, check that the app is not in airplane mode.

Region Monitoring Help Topics
How do I translate recorded speech to Korean? I am having trouble getting the recorder to work.

Press the record button and the center of the screen and wait a short amount of time for the recorder to load. The textview should then display a message "Start recording speech..," at which time the user can be recording native language speech. The recorded speech will appear in the textview as the user speaks. This allows the user to check the recorded speech before translating it into Korean. When satifised with the recorded speech, the user can then click the "Translate to Korean" button, at which time the translated text will appear in the textview. If the recorder is not working, it may be due to several factors: (1) the user did not grant permission for the app to record the user's speech and send the audio to Apple's servers for speech recognition, (2) the user may have bad connection, (3) there may be a problem with Apple's servers, in which case speech recognition may be unavailable. In addition, translation may be unavailable if there is a problem connecting to Google Translate services, in which case only speech recognition will be available to the user. In either case, be sure to grant the app permission and check your network connection to make sure that speech recording and translation is possible.

Language Help Options Help Topics
How do I score a point in BadBoy Bunny Learns Korean? What is the objective of the game? How do I move the player? Why doesn't anything happen when I contact an object?

The objective of the game is to correctly identify the Korean words for as many objects as possible. To score a point, the player must contact an object, at which point the user will be prompted to identify the correct Korean word for the object. If the object is correctly identified, a point is earned. Up to 10 points maximum is possible. Sometimes, the question prompt may not appear immediately, depending upon idiosyncrasies related to the user's device or iOS version. The player can be moved left and right by tilting the screen left or right. In addition, the user can tap on the bunny to make him jump to higher platforms. Some objects may be located on higher platforms and may require some level of dexterity on the part of the user to get there!

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Navigation Aid Menu/Options

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Annotation MapView

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MapView Annotation Filter

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Local Area Annotation List

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Local Area Search

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Local Area Search

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Navigation Aid 1

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Navigation Aid 2

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Region Monitoring 1

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Region Monitoring 2

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Region Monitoring 3

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Flickr Image Galleries 1

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Flickr Image Galleries 2

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Flickr Image Galleries 3

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Google Sign-in/Authentication

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Google Sign-in Authentication

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Language Help Options

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Hearing Native-Speaker Audio

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Using Speech Recognizer

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Weather Forecasts 1

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Weather Forecasts 2

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Speech Recognier (Additional Info)

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Message Translation

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YouTube Video Search/Viewing

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Google Places/Maps

Make your app stand out with detailed information about 100 million places across a wide range of categories, from the same database as Google Maps and Google+.

Check out the documentation here
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Fixer.io

Fixer.io is a free JSON API for current and historical foreign exchange rates published by the European Central Bank. The rates are updated daily around 4PM CET.

Check out Fixer.io here
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Flickr

The Flickr API is available for non-commercial use by outside developers. Commercial use is possible by prior arrangement.

Get your own Flickr account here
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DarkSky.net

Up-to-date weather information is provided compliments of Darksky.net. Look up weather information for locations worldwide, or get a free API key to get weather data for your own website or mobile app.

Check out Darksky.net here
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Flaticon.com

Free pics and icons can be downloaded from Flaticon.com. You can donwload the vector images as well as in other image formats.

Check out Flaticon pics here
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Kenney.nl

Thanks to Kenney for making so many free game assets public domain. You can check out Kenney's game assets at the link below.

Check out Kenney's graphics and games here
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Google Translate

The Google Cloud Translation API can dynamically translate text between thousands of language pairs. The Google Translation API is part of the larger Cloud Machine Learning API family.

Check out the documentation here
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Thanks to the students at Sogang University for providing help in collecting native-speaker audio samples for the Korean language help section.

Learn more about Sogang University here