Ahing vs HereKorea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ahing
Connect with Vietnamese and Korean individuals for genuine friendships and potential romance. This app facilitates natural encounters and cross-cultural connections, overcoming language barriers with a built-in translation feature. Explore shared interests, particularly in Korean culture, and build lasting relationships.
- Friendship and romance connections
- Vietnamese and Korean users
- Natural encounters
- Cross-cultural communication
- Built-in translation function
- Interest-based conversations
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Create beautiful friendships and love with Vietnamese friends who are as sweet and honest as the warm climate. Meet Vietnamese/Korean friends who seek natural encounters. Making friends with people from two countries who have many similar cultures and appearances! Please check it out through the ""Ahing"" app. Korean and Vietnamese people who have a lot in common can be the best foreign friends! Feel free to talk with your friend with a pen pal. Don't worry if the language is different. A-ing provides a translation function, so there is no inconvenience when talking to each other. Talk about various topics with friends who are interested in Korea thanks to the popularity of K-CULTURE. Vietnamese friends feel close to Korea and have many questions. Continue an honest and interesting conversation. ""Ahing"" will help you start as friends and remain as a precious relationship. * If you have any inquiries, please contact us at cs@reigntalk.co.kr
HereKorea
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HereKorea is a community for foreign residents of Korea. Everyone is verified. Sign-up requires a Korean mobile number and a photo of your Alien Registration Card, reviewed by a human before your account goes live. That means the person answering your question about visa renewal is someone who has actually renewed one. WHAT YOU CAN DO Voice rooms Talk out loud instead of typing. Open a room, put a topic on it, and up to five people take the stage while fifty listen. Ask the host for a place and they decide who speaks — nobody gets a microphone by pushing their way in. Practise Korean, answer somebody's paperwork question in your own language, or just have Friday night on in the background. Nothing said in a room is recorded. Feed Post what you're dealing with and read what everyone else is. Immigration office queues, deposits that went up without warning, which hospital does English intake forms. Tag by topic and by neighbourhood. Group chats Rooms by nationality and by interest. Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino, Uzbek, Nepali, Indian, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian — talk in your own language with people going through the same paperwork. Plus rooms for flat hunting, running, and study groups. Find a roommate A board split into two: people with a lease and a spare room, and people looking for someone to sign one with. Deposit, monthly rent, move-in date, neighbourhood and lifestyle up front, so you know before you message. Messages Direct messages and group rooms. New conversations arrive as requests, so nobody can fill your inbox uninvited. Events and benefits What's on in Seoul this month. Plus a guide to what you're entitled to as a foreign resident, health cover, subsidies, and discounts most people never find out about. PRIVACY Your residence card photograph is used to verify you and nothing else. Your nationality only appears on your profile after a reviewer has approved it — an unverified claim never leaves our database. Nothing said in a voice room is recorded or stored. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HereKorea at none against Ahing's shown. HereKorea also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ahing sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and HereKorea sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ahing ships an update monthly, HereKorea weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Ahing | HereKorea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 주식회사 레인톡 | JAEHOON NA |
In-app purchases
Ahing
- 1,050 Pin + recharge$2.99
- 1,320 Pin recharge$2.99
- 1,800 Pin + recharge$3.99
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- Pin + recharge$3.99
- 1,750 Pin + recharge$4.99
- Pin + recharge$6.99
- 2,200 Pin + recharge$6.99
- 3,600 Pin + recharge$7.99
- 3,500 Pin + recharge$9.99
- Pin + recharge$19.99
- 8600 Pin + recharge$21.99
- 10,500 Pin + recharge$22.99
- 10,500 Pin + recharge$27.99
- Pin + recharge$34.99
- 17,500 Pin + recharge$45.99
- Pin + recharge$69.99
- 35,700 Pin + recharge$79.99
- 35,000 Pin + recharge$94.99
HereKorea
- HereKorea Pro$2.991 Month









