About Korea Code

What we do

We help foreign visitors plan a real trip to Korea — not by listing every attraction blindly, but by matching travel styles to places that actually fit. Use Travel Codes (STAGE, TASTE, ROOT, HEAL, TRAIL, PET, FEST) to filter by what you care about, and the Planner to assemble a shareable itinerary in 60 seconds.

Editor

Editorial policy

Every article on Korea Code is built from trusted public sources — the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) public APIs, public-agency announcements, and official municipal channels. Place information such as admission fees, parking, opening hours, and event schedules is current as of publication and may change; please verify the latest details through the official channels before visiting.

Images sourced from public datasets are used under the Korea Open Government License (KOGL Type 1, Attribution), with the source attributed where required. Place data is normalized from KTO under the same license.

Full source list: /data-sources

Editorial process

Place pages combine official factual data sourced from KTO — location, hours, fees, contact — with bilingual editorial prose: a "Why go" introduction, quick highlights, and pairing recommendations. Every article is reviewed by the editor against the official source data before publication and dated with a published_at timestamp.

Recommendations are computed by deterministic, human-readable rules — theme fit, regional relevance, crowd-aware adjustments, English content quality — not by black-box AI. Every recommendation card carries a visible reason ("Best for STAGE travelers", "Quieter this week", "Pairs well with nearby market") so you can judge for yourself.

Pages without sufficient editorial depth are intentionally not indexed (noindex), so the public site only exposes content that meets a quality threshold. If you spot an inaccuracy, please let us know via the contact channel below — corrections are reviewed and applied promptly.

Editorial workflow

Every page on Korea Code is edited and verified against official Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) records before publication. We treat KTO's factual fields — addresses, operating hours, admission fees, contact information — as the source of truth and never publish factual claims that we cannot trace back to those records or to an official venue channel.

Editor's Columns, Travel Code descriptions, editorial direction, Travel Basics, and all trust pages (About, Privacy, Terms, Disclaimer) are written by the editor personally. The recommendation engine runs on deterministic, human-readable rules — theme fit, regional relevance, English content quality — not on machine-learned rankings.

Some drafts are prepared with the help of AI writing tools to keep the pace of coverage across 3,000+ places, but every draft passes through editor review against source data before it goes live, and pages without adequate editorial depth are intentionally not indexed. If a specific page reads inaccurate, please tell us via the contact link below — corrections are reviewed and applied within a few business days.

Principles

• English-first interface for foreign visitors. Korean-language content is supported as a parallel track, not a fallback.
• Recommendations are explainable — every suggestion shows why (e.g., "Best for STAGE travelers", "Quieter this week").
• No black-box AI itinerary generation. The Planner uses deterministic rules — you can see why each stop was chosen.
• Login is not required. Plans are shareable via stable URLs.
• Privacy-first analytics — no tracking cookies, no personal data sold.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or partnership inquiries: /contact