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DAGACHI is on the App Store now. Android is on the way, and this page will carry the link the day it is available.

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That link sends you to your own country's store, so it works whether you are in Nepal, Korea or elsewhere.

What is in the app

Translation	Nepali, Korean and English, built for conversation and documents rather than dictionary lookup
Local information	Offices, hospitals, banks and schools, with hours, documents required and languages spoken
Community	Boards by place and status, so you can ask somebody who was there last week
The guides	Everything on this website, on your phone

AI translation covers why general machine translation fails at a tenancy clause or a consent form, and what we do differently. Local information covers how entries are verified and dated. The DAGACHI community covers the boards, and main app covers the whole thing.

On Android

Not released yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise or give you a date we might miss.

Tell us you want it and which country you are in, and we will let you know the day it is available there. Android matters disproportionately for this audience, particularly in Nepal where it is overwhelmingly the common platform, so it is not an afterthought.

Until then, the next section gets you most of the way.

Android, or no app at all: use the site like one

This genuinely works, and most people do not know it is possible.

On Android, open this site in Chrome, tap the three-dot menu at the top right, and tap Add to Home screen or Install app depending on your version. Confirm, and an icon appears with your other apps.

On iPhone or iPad, if you would rather not install the app: open this site in Safari, tap the share button, scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.

Either way you get a full-screen site with no browser bar, your own icon, and pages that load quickly after the first visit. Pages you have already opened will often still display on a poor connection, which matters on a hill road or in a basement office.

What it needs from your phone

Worth setting expectations, because the honest answer is not "everything".

• A connection for translation and for fresh listings. The written guides hold up best on a weak signal.
• Modest storage. It is not a large application.
• No sign-in to read. The guides and the directory are open; an account is for posting and for saving things.
• A recent iOS version, as listed on the App Store page.

Why the information takes longer to arrive than the app did

A fair question, and the answer explains the product.

Every directory entry is confirmed for address, hours, contact details, languages spoken and documents required, then dated. That is the whole claim, and an app shipping scraped data would be worse than no app at all. It is also why some categories are still thin, which the directory says plainly rather than hiding.

The same applies to translation. The useful cases are a labour contract, a hospital consent form, a notice from a school. General machine translation handles tourist phrases and fails at exactly those, and getting the hard cases right across these three languages is the work rather than a feature to tick off.

If something is wrong, tell us

A platform whose claim is that the information is checked depends on being told when it is not. An office hour that changed, a number that no longer answers, a requirement added last year: contact us and it gets fixed and re-dated.

That is also where feature requests belong. The guides that get written next come from questions people actually asked, and the app is being built the same way.

One thing worth doing right now

Save the emergency numbers for wherever you are. In Nepal: 100 police, 101 fire, 102 ambulance. In Korea: 119 for ambulance and fire, 112 for police, and 1345 for the free multilingual immigration helpline.

Those lines are the most useful thing on this website, they need no app, and nobody looks them up in the moment they are needed. Emergency and medical emergencies in Korea cover what to do once you have called.

Where this goes wrong

• Searching the store by guesswork rather than using the link above.
• Waiting for the Android app when adding the site to your home screen works today.
• Expecting full offline use. Translation and fresh listings need a connection.
• Assuming the app replaces the guides. It carries them; the written sections are the depth.
• Not telling us when something is out of date, which is the one thing only you can do.

Where to go next

Main app covers what the app does in more detail, and about DAGACHI covers why any of this exists.

Follow along elsewhere

If you want to hear about the Android release, new guides and verified listings as they go live, we post on Facebook.

That is also a reasonable place to tell us something is wrong with a listing if you would rather not send an email, though contact reaches us faster for anything detailed.

What we are not

Worth repeating here, because an app download page is exactly where somebody might assume otherwise.

We are not a recruitment agency and we do not place anyone in a job. Work in Korea runs through the Employment Permit System or through an employer sponsoring you directly, and nobody, including us, can sell you selection or a visa. EPS: applying from Nepal covers the official process and its official costs.

We are not a visa agent. The app and the guides explain what the rules are and point you at the authority that decides. For your own case, the official helplines are free and definitive.

We do not charge readers. Businesses pay for verified listings; you do not.