Cell Phones

Most cell phones from the USA will not work in South Korea. Once you are here you will see a whole lot of options for cell phones. They have cell phones where it is pay as you go. Others have regular plans you can purchase. What works best is going to plan on your personal needs. My needs are simply to be able to send and recieve calls mostly from the USA.
The plan I went with is offered by the USO. You have to purchase one of their phones as well. I went with one of the more inexpensive ones and it ran me $99.00. I chose to have 400 anytime minutes (there are no free evenings/weekends here) which runs $40 a month. If you don't use all of your minutes they will roll over to the next month. The nice thing about this plan is all incoming calls are free! It is pretty easy to call the USA from these phones as well. I just enter in an 8 digit number then dial the number I want in the USA. The time I spend just goes against my regular minutes.
I also paid an additional fee of $29 a month to have a USA phone number assigned to my phone as well. Now my family in the USA can call a California number and reach me instead of calling international. I still have my regular international number as well so that anyone here can call me on that number. This has worked out well for me.
Incoming text messages are free. This is good because you will get quite a few Korean text messages. Outgoing, local texts only cost a few cents each.

The only downside to this program is that the phone directions are all in Korean! The phones here have a lot of capabilities. It is really expensive if you access the internet. I went back to the USO and had them disable my internet connection. I didn't want to accidentally connect and be charged for it.

Like I mentioned earlier there are a whole lot of plans and phones out there. Look around and ask others how they like their plans before you choose one. The closest USO to CRC is at Camp Casey.