About Korea Travel Atlas and our editorial principles

Who we are

Korea Travel Atlas (www.koreatripadvisor.com) is operated by KoreaTripAdvisor 주식회사. The name is given here in its original Korean form; 주식회사 is the Korean term for a stock company.

Questions about the site, reports of errors and requests about personal data all go to one address: privacy@koreatripadvisor.com. It is the same address shown in our privacy policy.

What this site is for

The site is an independent travel reference for people who plan to visit Korea. Its aim is to give them varied, practical and accurate information in their own language, so that planning a trip does not depend on being able to read Korean.

It covers:

• Places to visit, with their official names, overviews, addresses and practical information.
• Regions, with the places in each province and city.
• Festivals and events from official listings.
• Itineraries planned day by day.
• Getting around: a subway guide with lines, stations and exits, intercity train and bus routes, and connections from Incheon International Airport.

Pages are written for readers of English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean. Spanish, French and German pages exist, but they are not fully translated yet, so they are not offered to search engines.

Where our information comes from

Pages are built from official open data first. Open community projects fill in what the official data does not cover.

Korea Tourism Organization

TourAPI open data, published under the Korea Open Government License (KOGL): official names, overviews, addresses, practical information, festivals and photos, in several languages.

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

TAGO open data: timetable information for trains, express buses, intercity buses and the subway.

Incheon International Airport Corporation

Open data on airport buses and arriving flights.

OpenStreetMap contributors

Subway lines, stations and exits, under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Wikidata and Wikipedia

Station names in languages other than Korean and English.

Wikimedia Commons

Some of the photos, each shown with its credit.

The full list of sources, with their licences and credits, is on the Data and media attribution page.

Editorial principles

These principles are built into the way pages are generated. When a page cannot meet one of them, it leaves that piece of information out rather than guessing.

• Official sources come first. Other sources are used only for what official data does not cover.
• An admission fee, opening hours or closed days appear only when they come from an official record, and the date of that record is shown with them. Without such a record, the page asks you to check before you visit.
• Timetable pages show the date of their data and send you to the operator’s own booking site. They never state seat availability, discounts or delays.
• Distances are straight-line distances. Walking and travel times are estimates, and they are labelled as estimates.
• Place and station names in other languages come from official or attested sources. Where no such name exists and another name is shown instead, the page marks it as a fallback.
• Photos are credited. Photos whose licence forbids modification are shown unmodified.
• A page that does not have enough substance in a language is not offered to search engines in that language.
• Data is refreshed on a schedule: timetables, festivals and subway information, for example, are refreshed every week. Every page that depends on a data feed shows the date of its data.

How we use AI

AI language models help us draft summaries, answers to common questions and translations. They work from the site’s own data and from official text.

Automated checks then review what the models produce. Output is rejected when it is in the wrong language or script, when it contains numbers, dates, prices or names that are not in the source facts, or when it copies existing text.

Pages are not individually reviewed by an editor before they are published. The site relies on official data, these automated checks and correction reports from readers.

Corrections and contact

If something on a page is wrong or out of date, email privacy@koreatripadvisor.com with the address (URL) of the page and a short description of what is wrong. If you have a source, such as the official website of the place or operator, please include it.

Reports are reviewed, and where a report is right, the data or the page is corrected.

The same address handles general questions about the site and requests about personal data; see our privacy policy for details.

Independence and limits

Korea Travel Atlas is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with TripAdvisor LLC.

It is not an official tourism agency and not a booking service. It does not sell tickets, tours or accommodation.

Prices, opening hours, timetables and event dates change, and information on this site can be out of date. Before you travel, confirm the details with the operator of the place, event or service.