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2017

How to select right car?

It’s based on how many people travel in that car, deciding on size, body type, fuel used, usage of car, what kind of car, what type of driving do you do: highway, surface streets, off-road?

TYPES OF CAR

Coupe/Convertible: If you want a car that makes a statement about you, coupes and convertibles are typically the most expressive designs, but restricted access to the back seat (if the car you are considering even has one) seriously limits their practicality.

Hatchback: If you add another door—bringing the total to five—you’re looking at hatchbacks and station wagons, which offer SUV-like space without the dynamic and fuel-economy compromises of heavier vehicles. These cars are pariahs in the U.S. market, but many buyers are starting to reconsider, as fluctuating fuel prices and increasing environmental awareness have them thinking twice about crossovers and SUVs. As manufacturers get increasingly creative and design ever more stylish hatchbacks—their roofs are sleeker than wagons’—the market is warming to the segment.

SEDAN: If there are kids in the picture or in the near-future plan, four doors are a likely requirement. Even if children are small enough to ride comfortably in the back seat of a coupe with any regularity, consider the difficulty of constantly climbing into and out of the back seat to tend to a child before committing to just two doors.

Station Wagon: Station wagons have perhaps the worst reputation of any body style on the market, but we’re fighting to change that. They offer the best attributes of a car without the trade-offs of larger crossovers and SUVs.

SUV/Crossover: Jack up the ground clearance of a hatchback or station wagon, and you have a crossover or an SUV. Do you need that ground clearance? Probably not. When was the last time your road didn’t get regularly plowed or cleared? Sure, it happens—most often to those of us in the northern part of the country, and that’s a few times a winter—but the fuel-economy penalty of opting for a taller and heavier vehicle is something that affects you every time you start the car.

PRICE

Set your budget.

Unless you’ve got a pile of cash lying around, you’ll probably need to take out a car loan. It’s smart to keep your total monthly car expenses — payment, insurance, fuel, maintenance, repairs, registration — to 20% or less of your monthly take-home pay. Use a car loan calculator to find out what purchase price will provide a monthly payment that comfortably fits into your budget. Avoid the temptation to stretch the loan past 60 months (five years) just to buy a more expensive car.

SAFETY

Family shoppers should find antilock brakes, front seat airbags, full – length side curtain airbags and stability control on every model. Rear views are also increasingly standard, while high-tech electronics that warn inattentive drivers of blind-spot intrusion and impending collisions have migrated from strictly in the luxury realm down to mainstream brands. Shoppers should also be aware of crash test scores produced by Global NCAP.

FEATURES

Luxuries like rear views cameras, automatic climate control heated seats, smartphone interfaces, a navigation system, keyless start systems, power lift gates, and Bluetooth capability, can often be found in non-luxury cars. Look for them in your shop. Also, keep an eye out family-friendly features like rear-seat entrainment systems, flat flowing third-row seats, special storage bins and rear seats that slide and/or recline.

INTERIOR

All but a few cars are designed to 4-5 people (average). Most subcompacts and compacts provide enough rear legroom for full-size adults, with several offering fore/after seat adjustments to extend either passenger space or cargo capacity.

CARGO SPACE

It essentially to check for buying a car, based on what are all thing your carry into the car.

FUEL ECONOMY

Diesel, Petrol, Alternative fuel

The type of driving you do determines whether or not a hybrid or a diesel makes sense for you. Hybrids tend to use less fuel around town when low speeds and frequent braking keep them running on battery power longer. Diesel drivers will see their greatest benefits on the highway, although diesel vehicles are more efficient than gasoline cars at low speeds, too.

After thinking about the kind of acceleration you’d like from a car, you also need to consider what fuel type is most appropriate to your requirements. For city dwellers, we’d recommend avoiding the extra cost of a diesel and get the cheaper petrol option – you save money on purchase price and, for short journeys, the difference in fuel cost will be minimal.

Many think they should buy a diesel to get the best economy and, to a certain extent, this is true. In many cases, however, you have to cover vast mileages annually to make back the extra cost of the car and the fuel over a petrol version. Only those who regularly spend time on the motorway or towing should consider a diesel.

Most vehicles are available with a variety of engine and transmission combinations. Usually one is a small, economical choice and the other delivers more power but at the sacrifice of fuel economy. Often a manufacturer will make the small engine available only on base models or lower-level trims, saving the stronger engine(s) for more expensive uplevel versions.

DRIVE TRAIN

FWD – Front Wheel Drive

RWD – Rear Wheel Drive

AWD - All-Wheel Drive

4WD - 4 Wheel Drive

AWD and 4WD help a vehicle accelerate in slippery conditions, but they don't aid with braking and only sometimes improve handling. That said, you shouldn't necessarily cross the feature off your shopping list.

All-wheel drive: A drivetrain that employs a front, rear and center differential to provide power to all four wheels of a vehicle.

Four-wheel drive: A drivetrain that employs two differentials and a transfer case to provide power to all four wheels of a vehicle.

Rear-wheel drive (RWD) typically places the engine in the front/back of the vehicle and the driven wheels are located at the rear, a configuration known as rear-wheel-drive.

TRANSMISSION

Though the death of the manual transmission may be exaggerated, a vast majority of modern cars come only with automatic transmissions. Many automatics now provide a manual-shift mode that works much like a manual transmission but without a clutch. A manual-shift mode is also handy when driving in mountainous areas because it provides more control on long descents.

Still, in certain cars, a stick can make the driving experience more fun. But in the end, as fun and practical as stick shifts may be, they can be a chore in stop-and-go traffic. In addition, today's six-, seven-, and eight-speed automatics can help cars return fuel economy as good as—and often better than—the same car with a manual.

NOTE: The above conditions are basically to identify your dream car. This information will help to find your dream car and its also help gets a rough idea about you right needs. Then next few more step-like current trending model review will find the right model.

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5 of the Best Smartphone Apps for Foreigners in Korea

Here is a list of the top 5 apps I use and think will help you too. Hopefully, I can come back to this post and edit it to include even more as time goes on:

1. Kakao Talk
Let’s start with the absolute must have. Kakao Talk is the Korean equivalent of sending a text message – but it’s free. Every Korean person has Kakao Talk and uses it every hour of the day to send messages to their friends and co-workers. It’s a fantastic app that allows you to call people for free, send photos and videos and has a really wide array of fantastically funny emoticons! Your phone contacts automatically get added to your Kakao Talk contacts but you can also manually add any contacts from home too.

Perhaps the best feature of the Kakao Talk app is the group conversations – you can add as many of your friends as you like and all have a little conversation together on the go. When you arrive in Korea, forget everything else and install Kakao Talk on your smartphone… that’s how important it is!

Download: Apple Devices / Android Devices

2. Jiyachul or Subway Korea
Jiyachul is the Korean word for subway and, as you can probably guess, is an app designed to help people navigate Korea’s extensive subway system. It not only shows the most up to date subway maps for all the metropolitan cities in Korea, it also allows you to view train times and transfer detail making this one of the most widely used apps in Korea.

The big bonus for us is that it is available in English!

Download: Apple Devices / Android Devices

3. Visit Korea

Visit Korea is an app from the Korean Tourism Office and is actually very, very good indeed. It includes information about popular things to do and see in all areas of Korea in English as well as showing route maps on how to get to places the quickest. If you are planning to travel around the country during your stay this will throw up lots of great ideas you wouldn’t have found otherwise.

Download: Apple Devices / Android Devices

4. Naver Maps
Naver (and to an extent Daum) has the monopoly on the interactive smartphone/website map apps in Korea. Google is used but it doesn’t pull up as many of the results that naver does. The thing you need to keep in mind is that you’ll get more accurate results in Naver / Daum by typing in Korean which we know may not be possible but something to keep in mind if you can.

It’s straightforward and if you’ve ever used Google you will have no problem using Naver or Daum.

Download: Apple Devices / Android Devices

5. Google Translate

Okay, yeah, you probably know about this one. I went for the longest time without this one until one day it clicked and I installed it. Instantly better! I now use it in restaurants, taxis, at the store, and in the street. Without it, I was nothing but a stammering wreck with people just sniggering as I tried to ask a question. In other words, just install it and you’ll use it every day!

Download: Apple Devices / Android Devices

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