Aint uber illegial in Korea?

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/article/9283/news-response-seoul-ban-uber-gives-koreans-free-rides

so.....get the free ride and then get the reward for reporting your driver....if your trying to maximize. jk. but getting paid to take uber?

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/network-wifi/3599457/uber-offers-free-rides-to-koreans-hopes-they-wont-report-its-illegal-drivers-to-police/

"In the last three months of operating the service for sale, about 100 reports have been made although no rewards were provided by the city yet"

Dang korea, pay up yo, stingy

I would never use uber but I imagine that the driving is safer than the average taxi driver, I mean it can't be worse.

safer? could you elaborate?

Quote from: Nivea on March 02, 2015, 11:01:34 AM

I would never use uber but I imagine that the driving is safer than the average taxi driver, I mean it can't be worse.

safer? could you elaborate?

Taxi drivers are as crazy as the rest of the Koreans on the road. I drive and find them all equally awful. No wait, Bongo drivers are the worst. The lorry drivers scare me the most, not because they any worse than other drivers but the fact that they K driving with a huge lorry.

i feel pretty safe. are they more likely to turn a blind eye to traffic signals and the like? maybe. but for pretty dense urban areas, i see less traffic accidents here then in America. furthermore, define crazy how you like, we might agree. but that doesn't make me feel less safe. i suppose everyone is entitled to there opinion. for the sake of the topic though. I would probably side with taxi driver's being more safe than your average korean driver. its safe to say they have more hour/day experience driving behind the wheel. i like to thing that with most things, the more experience you have with something, the better you are at it.

Korea's car crash fatality is twice as high as america's. I just think those tow companies are insane here and respond within minutes of an accident.

As much as I hate the general company and idea of uber, I am almost happy to see this as an option when I'm in Seoul. Taxi's in Korea can be exhausting. From the fact that Koreans will just walk in front of you to get a taxi, to the fact that there's no good address system and drivers will constantly tell me their special way of calling an area (or not even knowing said area despite living in a city their entire lives), to getting weird about dropping off before initial destination, to refusing to take you somewhere in seoul because it's too close, to doing that stop-start gas peddling which supposedly runs the meter, to driving insanely to get an extra ride that night. At least on uber I can rate my driver.

Hey got a message about stories about possibly being charged on the "free ride" so I tested it out myself and rode on a UBERX (BMW 5 series) for 1 hour 17min and it was 0.

I just attached a link to my receipt on the first post.

I've used Uber a couple of times recently, but not in Korea. I found it to be all right, although I suppose it could be different in Korea.