Travel Korea like you know someone here.
Cars, day plans, restaurants, and someone who comes along. KRAYON arranges all of it and handles the Korean for you.
Starting in Seoul and Gyeonggi, with more of the country to follow.
Stuck? A person helps. Not a robot.
Getting to Korea is easy. The hundred small conversations are not.
Every one of these is solvable in about ninety seconds — by someone who speaks both sides and already knows where you're going.
The address doesn't land
You show a screenshot. The driver squints at it. Neither of you is sure it's the right neighbourhood until you arrive.
The good restaurant won't take you
No English menu, no booking app, reservations by phone only. So you eat somewhere else, again.
Something changes mid-trip
A delay, a closed site, a sick child. You restart the whole explanation with a stranger who has no idea who you are.
We didn't build a translator. We put a person in the loop.
Machine translation already exists and it's free. What doesn't exist is someone on the Korean side who can see your booking, call the restaurant, and sort it out while you wait.
They open with your booking already loaded
Pickup point, time, vehicle, driver, the tour you're on. You never start from "so, I'm in Korea and—".
They talk to the Korean side for you
The driver, the restaurant, the ticket desk. In Korean, by phone, the way things actually get done here.
They fix it, then tell you it's fixed
Not a list of suggestions. A changed reservation, a redirected driver, a table held for 7:30.
"Stuck? A person helps. Not a robot." — the line that sits on the app's home screen, because it's the whole product.
Four things, arranged end to end.
Airport pickup and long distance
Incheon or Gimpo to your door, Seoul to Busan, a van for seven with luggage. Price agreed before departure, driver assigned by a partner transport company.
An itinerary we can actually book
Answer two questions and get a day laid out by hour — including DMZ runs with a certified guide. We mark which places are actually old Korea and which are shopping malls, and let you pick.
Restaurants that don't speak your language
We list the ones other apps skip, mark honestly what will be hard, and make the phone call in Korean for you.
A person who comes along
Not a tour. You decide where to go, and someone comes with you to handle every Korean conversation you run into along the way.
Some days you don't want a tour. You want someone who speaks Korean.
You decide where to go. A KRAYON companion comes along and takes over every conversation you run into — the shop, the counter, the taxi, the phone call you couldn't make.
What people actually ask for
- 01Talking to shop staff
- 02Ordering food
- 03Getting around — subway and taxi
- 04Making phone reservations
- 05Just someone with me
The last one gets chosen more often than you would expect.
- ✓ID and address verified — we keep a copy on file
- ✓Interviewed in person, not on paper
- ✓Language tested by conversation, not by certificate
- ✓Safety training completed before the first booking
A companion is not a licensed tour guide. They do not give paid commentary at heritage sites. If that is what you want, book a guided tour instead.
Not a tour. You decide where to go — we make sure you can talk to anyone you meet.
One companion, any size of group.
One companion, any number of people in your group. Transport and entry fees are separate.
We list the places that are hard to get into. Then we get you in.
Other apps rank restaurants by how easy they are for foreigners. That filter quietly removes most of the good ones. We do the opposite — we show the friction, and then we handle it.
A gomtang house in Jongno, open since the sixties
One dish, no menu to read, three staff who have never taken a booking online.
A grill in Mapo with a phone-only waitlist
The queue app is Korean-only and asks for a Korean phone number. That's the entire barrier.
A tofu village near Imjingak, on the way back from the DMZ
Local beans, a set lunch, and no reason to visit unless you already have a car heading that way.
Every badge is shown as it is. If somewhere will be awkward, we say so before you go — and then we make the call.
Two ways to work with us.
If you own vehicles or you sell trips, the missing piece is usually the same one: someone to handle the foreign customer. That part is ours.
You don't need to speak English.
Your drivers work in a Korean-only app. Every message from a foreign passenger reaches them already translated by our staff, and every reply goes back the same way.
- ✓Driver app is entirely in Korean — no English screens, ever
- ✓Our staff handle every passenger conversation
- ✓Dispatch and settlement in one monthly statement
- ✓Fills the empty hours between your existing runs
Wholesale rates, and your margin on screen.
Book on behalf of your customers through a partner portal built for volume — passenger lists, vouchers, monthly commission settlement.
- ✓Wholesale price and your margin shown before you confirm
- ✓Book for a group under one passenger list
- ✓Vouchers issued in your customer's language
- ✓Commission statement with a fixed payout date
Once a month, from the Korean side.
Restaurants that have just started taking foreign guests, routes worth the drive this season, and what actually changed at the border. One email, no promotions.
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