Please help me with an international phone call

Factual Questions
1

First off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. I don’t know where else to ask.

Second, yes, I do know there are countless web pages on this topic, but they all give me confusing and sometimes contridictary instructions, and most haven’t been updated anytime in the last century.

I’m trying to call numbers in Seoul and Daegu (South Korea) from Canada. The numbers look like this:

82 (02) 3442-#### Seoul
82 (02) 501-#### Seoul
82 (053) 425-#### Daegu

What is the exact sequence of numbers I need to dial?

I’m really tired of getting busy signals, wrong numbers, and some other really strange things.

2

Usually you just drop the leading zero in an area code. So:

+82-2-3442-#### Seoul
+82-2-501-#### Seoul
+82-53-425-#### Daegu

Where + is your international call denoter-thingy (001 or whatever).

Astroboy may be of more help.

3

What Ell Said…

You need to dial 011 from Canada in place of the +.

So just listen for dial tone, dial 011 , 82 , city code (leaving off the initial Zero, and the local number…

Provided of course that your line is open to IDDD.

Thank you for using Bell Canada International! :slight_smile:

4

In (most of) Europe it’s easy. You just take ‘00’ for international prefix, ‘82’ for Korean country code, ‘2 / 53’ for area code minus leading zero, and then the rest of the numbers.

I know that dialing international numbers from the US can be a nightmare. I spent a frustrating half an hour and several handfulls of coins (thirds? quarters?) trying to call home from a pay phone. People kept giving me very helpfull advice, but in the end I gave up.

5

Thanks for the help guys. Now I don’t feel like such a putz for having to ask…