South Korea Inat

General
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So may visit brother who is based in South Korea and noticed there isn’t a lot of species posted on Inat. . . is there a reason, or is there just not many people who use inat in South Korea?

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We used to have a prolific forum user based there. He is still active on iNat; I just haven’t seen him here lately.

Anyway, I feel like I remember him saying once a different nature app was more popular there, much in the same way people in Japan use an alternative to Google maps.

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ah that makes sense

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You should go visit your brother! I always thought Paul posted the coolest things, this lifer especially.

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the second one now looks like it has >3 million observations now (compared to 0.8 million in iNaturalist):

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Korea has lots of great stuff, I really enjoyed living there - but no iNat at the time! Hikes in more remote mountains can throw up a lot of interesting mammals :)

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Thanks, @pisum, for finding this (I could not) and also for all the useful things with which you assist; you are extremely helpful and wildly adroit.

(@anycade3 you might want to mark @pisum’s post as the solution.)

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A few years ago there was a world tour, but I guess this topiuc is outdated by now. Paul also reactis in this topic.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/south-korea-inaturalist-world-tour/5032
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/26163-south-korea-inaturalist-world-tour