HereKorea vs Gatchi

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.

Enjoy Korea together. Gatchi ("같이" — Korean for "together") connects you with people who share your interests, so you can experience Korea with company. Build your Korea bucket list, find people who want to do the same things, chat, and turn those plans into real meetups. Planning a trip, visiting now, or living here — Gatchi helps you find the people who make each moment better. BUILD YOUR KOREA BUCKET LIST Pick what you actually want to do: chimaek by the Han River, a baseball game, sunrise on Bukhansan, a night at a pocha, hanbok at the palace, noraebang, Seongsu cafés, Namsan, Jeju, traditional markets, Han River cycling. Your list is how you find people — and how they find you. DISCOVER PEOPLE WHO MATCH Browse profiles in your city with filters that matter: distance, neighborhood, age, languages, nationality, interests, and the bucket list items you have in common. Narrow it to travelers or to people living in Korea. INVITE, DON'T JUST SWIPE Every invitation is attached to a specific activity. Instead of a blank "hi," you're asking someone to do something concrete. If you both invited each other, you match instantly and the chat opens. JOIN OR HOST GROUP ACTIVITIES Browse activities other members created — a hike, a food crawl, a language exchange, a night out — and join with one tap. Hosting is just as simple: create an activity, set the place and time, and a group chat opens automatically. CHAT AND MAKE A REAL PLAN Message one-to-one or in groups, in real time. When you're ready, propose a place and time right inside the chat. Once everyone confirms, it lands on your Plans tab, with reminders the day before, the morning of, and 30 minutes ahead. BUILD A REPUTATION After you meet, leave reputation tags — friendly, punctual, reliable, great conversation. Reputation shows on profiles, so the people you meet come with a track record. SAFETY AND CONTROL - Report or block anyone, at any time - Profiles with multiple reports are automatically hidden from Discover while our team reviews them - Location is used only to sort people by distance, and only while the app is open - Snooze Discover whenever you want to step back - Per-category notification settings - Delete your account at any time FOR TRAVELERS Line up plans before you land. Share your dates and destination, get matched with people whose schedules overlap yours, and arrive with a conversation already going. FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN KOREA Show newcomers the places you love, practice languages, and build a circle around what you actually enjoy doing — not just where you work or study. Korea is better shared. Make friends who share your interests, and enjoy it together. Questions or feedback: support@gatchi.co