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Uber, an American rideshare company, supports a large number of languages including Korean.



Because Uber operates is many countries.


They don't operate in Korea but they do provide Korean translations which seems to suggest they consider inbound tourists as a target market. It is quite telling the Korean apps do not.


Unless it's changed very recently, Uber still operates in Korea, but only for foreigners.


Uber attempted to operate in Korea and failed. At that point keeping a Korean translation would have been a simple matter of maintaining and updating it for the small returns that it brought in, coupled with the knowledge that simply maintaining a Korean translation for their vastly more entrenched service ensured no chance of competition from one of the few non-American firms to succeed in the same space as them.




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