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Your personalised guide to life in Korea
See what your LifePass could look like.
LifePass brings together guided journeys, dates, reminders, scanned documents, local information and community help relevant to your life, so you can understand what matters now and prepare for what comes next.
The preview uses fictional information to demonstrate how a personalised LifePass works.
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Sound familiar?
If you have asked yourself any of these, there is already a journey for it.
Each question opens a guided journey built around your answers: official sources, your own dates and reminders, and the option to ask other members anonymously.
You just landed in Korea. Where do you even start?
I just arrived in Korea
Is your residence card expiring sooner than you think?
Renew or replace my residence card
A letter arrived from the health insurance office. What does it actually mean?
Understand my health insurance
Paying more for your phone plan than you need to?
Get the right phone plan
A new job on the table. What changes for your visa?
Start or change a job
Your employer has not paid you, and you do not know who to tell?
My employer has not paid me
Moving out. Will you get your full deposit back?
Move home safely
Tax season again, and none of it makes sense?
Prepare for Korean tax filing or settlement
Thinking about opening your own business here?
Start a business in Korea
Expecting a baby in Korea?
Having a baby in Korea
Can you swap the licence from your home country for a Korean one?
Get a driver's licence in Korea
Leaving Korea. What has to be closed before you go?
Prepare to leave Korea
Something else on your mind? Ask LifePass in your own words.
One LifePass, four connected benefits
More relevant help, organised around your real life.
Documents are one way to add context. LifePass can also learn from the interests, dates, journeys, events and Waegook activity you choose to connect.
Your personal feed
See useful information based on your situation, city, selected interests and current priorities, with an explanation of why it appears.
Your guided journeys
Answer a few questions and get a step-by-step plan for the thing you are dealing with, from moving home or starting a job to unpaid wages, a new baby, a residence card or leaving Korea, with the reason behind every step.
Your private timeline
Keep milestones, confirmed dates and saved resources together, as a timeline or a month calendar, with reminders in the app, by push or by email.
Your connected Waegook
Bring together relevant jobs, events, community guides, places, documents and clearly labelled official resources.
Guided journeys
Answer a few questions. Get a plan that fits you.
Guided journeys cover the big moments and the hard ones: arriving, your first 90 days, work, an employer who has not paid you, housing, health insurance, pregnancy and a new baby, marriage, studying, renewing or replacing your residence card, driving, tax, starting a business, and leaving Korea. Each one turns your answers into a plan you can actually follow.
Tell it about your situation
A short questionnaire. Most questions offer "I'm not sure" or "Prefer not to say", and every answer can be changed later.
Get your personal checklist
Steps that match your answers, each with the reason it applies. Tick them off, skip them or reopen them any time.
Read the Good to know cards
Guidance written for your case. Every card links its official source, and dated figures show when we last checked them.
Stuck? Ask for help
Post a question to the community from inside the journey, with no name shown. Replies come back to your journey.
Connected across Waegook
Save something once. Make it useful in LifePass.
A saved event can become a timeline date. A new job can start an employment journey. A housing listing can connect to moving preparation. A community guide can support the step you are working on.
LifePass does not replace these Waegook features. It organizes the parts that matter to your current situation.
Jobs
Track interviews, contract review and starting-work steps.
Events
Save useful events and receive reminders before they begin.
Community
Find guides and discussions connected to your current journey.
Housing
Organise listings, moving dates, leases and deposit-protection steps.
Places
Keep nearby offices, support centres and useful local services.
Documents
Scan a paper and LifePass explains it, stores it privately and turns its deadline into a reminder.
Useful through different stages of life
Start with what matters to you now
Life changes
✓ Moving to Korea
✓ Starting or changing jobs
✓ Housing and moving
✓ Studying and graduating
✓ Getting married
✓ Family administration
✓ Preparing to leave Korea
Life administration
✓ Residence preparation
✓ Health insurance
✓ Taxes and banking
✓ Driving in Korea
Everyday life
✓ Local community
✓ Shopping and services
✓ Events and travel
✓ Emergencies and safety
Helpful, but never pretending to be an authority.
LifePass helps you organise information and find relevant resources. Guidance cards link their official source, and dated figures show when we last checked them. It does not replace confirmation from an official agency, qualified professional or the original document.
Build a LifePass around your own life.
Join Waegook free, choose what matters to you and create a private feed that grows with your life in Korea.
Join Waegook, it's free
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Private by design · You control and can delete your LifePass data