SK Telecom’s T World now usable in all major browsers

This may come as a surprise to those aliens in Korea who don’t use Internet Explorer (6 even!?) or heaven forbid, don’t use Windows.

I use a Mac, so there is no such thing as IE in my world. I had already assumed I couldn’t make use of the T World website to order my TTL membership card (제휴카드, more on this in a later installment). For some reason I decided to give it a shot today. What a surprise I found, when this little notification popped up.

I am trained to ignore most notifications, because it’s usually some new credit card in which I have no interest. This time, however, where we are usually told that our Chrome or Firefox browsers can’t match the ultimate power of IE6, and thus cannot use this site, we are told that T World is compatible with IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Holy Shit! Progress is being made.

Let’s hope this is a trend.

SK Telecom Smart Wallet Application for Android

As a side note, if you have an Android phone, I would strongly recommend getting the Smart Wallet app for you phone, and among other useful things such as free Dunkin Donuts coupons, you can have you TTL card on your phone. This will allow you to avail yourself to the many discounts that come with the card. If you’re interested in all the discounts available, and you didn’t realise that such a thing was possible, check out this page, which outlines all of the benefits of a SK Telecom Membership. Every carrier has member discount cards too, so don’t be like most aliens, and miss out.

SK Telecom TTL Membership Card on Anycall Galaxy A

Suspect Espionage in Korea!? Call 113!

This actually came about after pressing the “Emergency Call” button on my new phone by accident. When I did hit it, there were a surprising amount of  specific numbers. This is also a good time to remind people (or let them know) that 112 is for Police services and 119 is for the Fire Department and Ambulances. Here’s a screen shot of that list, which includes “Suspect of Espionage” (113) and “National Intelligence Service” (111), which you probably have seen scrolling in Korean on the subways.

Personally, I want a number for illegal English teaching.