KT opens Foreigner Center for non-English speakers

It services eight languages including Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Cambodian, Indonesian, Nepali, Vietnamese, and Burmese

KT opens Foreigner Center for non-English speakers
Ji-Eun Jeong 1
2023-12-26 13:21:21 jeong@hankyung.com
Tech, Media & Telecom

South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Tuesday that it opened the KT Foreigner Center for non-English speakers in Won-gok-dong, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.

The center offers various services in eight languages: Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Cambodian, Indonesian, Nepali, Vietnamese, and Burmese.

It also has prepared an airline ticketing service for foreigners, a kiosk for issuing its prepaid SIM WowPass, and an unmanned exchange. This center has various phone experience spaces and provides after-sales service for replacing display screens, batteries, and other parts of phones.

To further enhance customer convenience, the storefront displays the languages available for consultation each day. The center is open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Write to Ji-Eun Jeong at jeong@hankyung.com

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