Playground - Fun Things to Do

🗺️ Playground — fun things to do and places to visit, in one app.

Places, curated collections and events currently cover Seoul: the map and the Near you list show places in Seoul, and What's on lists events running in Seoul.

Start from what's on right now — exhibitions, performances, festivals and hands-on programs — next to places near you and hand-picked collections you can save for later. Built for visitors and locals alike, with the practical Korea know-how a map app never tells you.

▣ WHAT'S ON
• Exhibitions, performances, festivals and hands-on programs that are running now
• The venue and dates on each card
• Refreshed daily from public open data
• Tap through to the event's page for times and details

▣ PLACES NEAR YOU
• Places around you on a Google Map, filtered by category and radius
• Markers grouped into clusters as you zoom out
• Distance from you, nearest first
• Find a place by name or category as you type, or browse by category chip

▣ CURATED COLLECTIONS
• Themed collections, each with a written introduction
• Save a whole collection, or single places, and open them again later

▣ DAY PLANS
• Build a trip day by day from the places you saved
• Name each day, add or remove stops, reorder them, move a stop to the next day
• Days show real dates once you set a start date

▣ REVIEWS
• Read reviews and average ratings, or filter to the ones written by visitors
• Write your own with a rating, and edit or delete it any time
• Reviews in another language are translated on your phone as you read

▣ AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION
• Collection intros, guides and reviews are translated into your phone's language on the device itself
• No button to press and nothing sent to a server — the language pack downloads once, then works offline

▣ KOREA ESSENTIALS
• Arrival essentials — getting in from Incheon Airport, your first T-money card, staying connected, and why people here use Naver Map or Kakao Map instead of Google Maps
• Emergency contacts — 119, 112, the 1330 travel hotline and 1339 medical advice, one tap to dial and available offline, with your current location ready to copy or share
• Dietary card — halal, no pork, vegetarian, vegan, not spicy and your own allergies, written out in Korean for restaurant staff, with Korean text-to-speech if you'd rather not read it aloud
• "Before you go" etiquette notes on restaurant, cafe, bar and attraction pages

▣ GETTING THERE
• Directions open in the map app that works in Korea — Naver Map, then Kakao Map
• Open Kakao T to book a taxi, or show the name and address full-screen in Korean to a driver or staff
• Tap an address to copy it, tap a phone number to call

▣ THE SMALL THINGS
• Recently viewed places waiting on the My tab
• Light and dark theme, following your system or set by hand
• English and Korean interface

▣ PERMISSIONS
• Location (optional) — to show places near you and center the map
• Notifications (optional) — asked once during onboarding, and you can decline without losing anything

■ Please note
• Saving places and building day plans need no sign-up — you are signed in anonymously. Adding an email is optional and only matters if you want the same saves on another phone.
• Opening hours appear only where a place actually has them.

■ Data sources
Event listings use public open data from:
• Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Open Data Plaza — https://data.seoul.go.kr
• Korea Culture Information Service Agency, Culture Portal — https://www.culture.go.kr
• Korea Arts Management Service, KOPIS — https://www.kopis.or.kr
• Korea Tourism Organization, TourAPI — https://api.visitkorea.or.kr
Playground is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated on behalf of any government agency.

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