Pokemon Go unleashed on game-mad South Korea, six months late

Mystery solution: Neither Niantic nor Pokemon Korea specified how they managed to work around the Google Maps challenge.

SEOUL: Nintendo Co's smash hit Pokemon Go was unleashed on South Korea on Tuesday, six months after it was released elsewhere in the world, a delay caused by security fears over Google Maps.

The popularity of augmented-reality Pokemon Go around the world has generated crowds of people in parks and other public places as users search for monsters to train, but with temperatures well below freezing, there was no sudden, noticeable buzz on the streets of Seoul.