Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of REVIEW IN KOREA, available at https://reviewinkorea.com/ and related localized URL paths such as /ko/, /en/, and other supported language paths (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is operated under the name REVIEW IN KOREA ("REVIEW IN KOREA," "we," "us," or "our").

By accessing or using the Service, creating an account, submitting content, or interacting with community features, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" includes that organization to the extent applicable.

2. Service Description

REVIEW IN KOREA is a multilingual Korea travel guide and community website for discovering Korean attractions, cities, nature, restaurants, cafes, hidden gems, shopping, culture, travel tips, cultural experiences, travel images, and traveler or community stories.

The Service may include:

• Localized travel guide pages and community-style posts.
• Community lists and detail pages.
• Travel Pieces, puzzle, gallery, or image-based features.
• Account registration, login, email verification, password reset, password change, nickname updates, and account deletion.
• Public content pages that may be indexed by search engines.
• Advertising, analytics, localization, and third-party services.
• AI-assisted translation and localization of content.

The inspected Service currently does not provide paid checkout, booking, reservation, ticketing, marketplace transactions, or payment processing. If we add paid or transactional features, separate or additional terms may apply.

3. Contact Information

For Service, account, privacy, content, copyright, or takedown inquiries, use the public contact channel below:

4. Eligibility and Minors

You may use the Service only if you can form a legally binding agreement under applicable law or, if you are a minor, only with the consent and supervision of your parent or legal guardian.

The Service is not directed to children under 14 years of age. Users under 14 may not create an account, submit personal information, or post content unless a legal guardian provides consent in the manner required by applicable law. We may refuse registration, restrict access, delete accounts, or remove content if we believe a user is underage or lacks required guardian consent.

You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you in your location.

5. Accounts and Authentication

5.1 Account registration

To access certain features, you may need to create an account using an email address, display name or nickname, and password. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it updated.

Email verification may be required before login or account use. Verification links currently expire after 24 hours. Password reset links currently expire after 30 minutes. Passwords must meet the minimum requirements shown during registration, currently including a minimum length of 8 characters.

5.2 Account security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for all activity under your account. You must not share your password, allow unauthorized access, use another person's account, or attempt to bypass authentication or rate-limit controls.

Notify us promptly at contact@reviewinkorea.com if you suspect unauthorized access, account compromise, or misuse.

5.3 Session and security controls

We may use session cookies, token hashes, audit logs, rate limits, and other technical measures to operate accounts and protect the Service. We may revoke sessions, require password reset, restrict login, or suspend accounts where we reasonably believe necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, or enforcement of these Terms.

5.4 Account deletion

You may request account deletion through the account settings, if available, or by contacting us at contact@reviewinkorea.com. Account deletion may revoke active sessions, delete user-owned community posts tied to the account where technically configured, change account status, and replace the email address with a deleted placeholder.

Some information may be retained as described in the Privacy Policy, including security logs, audit records, legal records, complaint records, backup copies until overwritten, and information necessary to protect rights, prevent abuse, comply with law, or resolve disputes. Public content that has been indexed, cached, copied, archived, or republished by third parties may remain outside our control.

6. User Content

6.1 Definition of User Content

"User Content" means content that you submit, upload, post, send, display, or otherwise make available through the Service, including text, titles, excerpts, comments, reviews, travel tips, city names, tags, images, captions, files, profile or display names, and any related metadata.

6.2 Public nature of User Content

If you submit content for publication or use community features, your User Content may be publicly displayed on the Service, translated into multiple languages, indexed by search engines, shared through URLs, and accessible to users worldwide. Do not submit content that you want to keep private.

You are solely responsible for your User Content and for ensuring that you have all rights, permissions, licenses, consents, and legal bases necessary to submit it.

6.3 Ownership

As between you and us, you retain ownership of your User Content, subject to the license granted below and any rights held by others.

6.4 License to REVIEW IN KOREA

By submitting User Content, you grant REVIEW IN KOREA a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, publish, display, publicly perform, distribute, transmit, cache, index, translate, localize, excerpt, edit for formatting, resize, crop, create thumbnails, adapt for technical requirements, create derivative formatting versions, promote, and otherwise use your User Content for purposes of operating, developing, improving, securing, marketing, and providing the Service.

This license includes the right to:

• Display User Content with your display name, nickname, city, tags, images, and other submitted information.
• Make User Content available on public pages and to search engines.
• Translate or localize User Content into supported languages, including through AI-assisted tools and human editing.
• Modify formatting, image size, metadata, titles, excerpts, slugs, SEO metadata, and layout to improve usability or comply with technical requirements.
• Preserve copies for backup, security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, content provenance, moderation, and takedown handling.

This license continues for as long as needed to operate the Service and as permitted by law. If you delete content or your account, we will make reasonable efforts to stop public display under our control, subject to legal retention, backups, technical limitations, cached copies, third-party copies, and any rights or permissions that allow continued use.

6.5 Representations about User Content

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have all rights necessary to submit and license the User Content.
• Your User Content does not infringe intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, portrait rights, contractual rights, database rights, trade secrets, or other rights of any person.
• You have obtained any required consent from people shown, identified, quoted, or described in your User Content.
• Your User Content is accurate to the best of your knowledge and is not misleading, fraudulent, defamatory, unlawful, or harmful.
• Your User Content complies with these Terms and applicable law.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree to use the Service lawfully, respectfully, and only for its intended purposes. You must not:

1. Violate any applicable law, regulation, court order, third-party right, or contractual obligation.
2. Post unlawful, misleading, false, defamatory, abusive, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, exploitative, violent, threatening, self-harm-promoting, or otherwise harmful content.
3. Post content that infringes copyright, trademark, moral rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, portrait rights, trade secrets, database rights, or other rights.
4. Upload images or personal information of others without required rights and consent.
5. Impersonate another person or misrepresent affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, location, identity, or source.
6. Post spam, undisclosed advertising, affiliate manipulation, fake reviews, deceptive promotions, scams, malware, phishing, or fraudulent content.
7. Manipulate rankings, likes, comments, traffic, referrals, ads, analytics, or community features.
8. Scrape, crawl, copy, harvest, or bulk download content or data except as permitted by robots.txt, written permission, or applicable law.
9. Reverse engineer, probe, scan, attack, disrupt, overload, bypass, or compromise the Service or related infrastructure.
10. Circumvent authentication, session controls, access restrictions, rate limits, security controls, consent mechanisms, or geographic restrictions.
11. Use bots, scripts, automated accounts, or other automated means in a way that harms or burdens the Service.
12. Introduce viruses, malware, malicious code, or security exploits.
13. Use the Service to collect personal information about others without a lawful basis.
14. Interfere with advertisements, analytics, attribution, copyright notices, source links, or technical protection measures.
15. Encourage or assist anyone else to do any of the above.

8. Community Moderation and Enforcement

We may, but are not obligated to, review, moderate, edit, reject, de-index, restrict, suspend, remove, or restore content or accounts at our discretion where we believe it is appropriate for legal, safety, editorial, quality, rights-management, technical, or community reasons.

We may take enforcement actions including:

• Refusing or removing posts, images, comments, tags, or other content.
• Editing formatting, metadata, tags, slugs, excerpts, translations, or images.
• Adding, changing, or removing source attribution.
• Restricting visibility, indexing, translation, or distribution.
• Suspending, limiting, or deleting accounts.
• Revoking sessions or requiring password reset.
• Preserving records for investigation, legal compliance, or dispute resolution.
• Reporting unlawful activity to authorities or affected parties where appropriate.

If you believe moderation action was taken in error, contact us at contact@reviewinkorea.com with the relevant URL, account email, explanation, and supporting materials. We will review appeals at our discretion and as required by applicable law.

9. Externally Sourced Content, Attribution, and Takedown

The Service may include content imported from, inspired by, linked to, summarized from, translated from, or otherwise based on external source material, including public websites, blogs, Naver Blog pages, images, source URLs, author names, or other publicly available materials.

We aim to respect intellectual property rights, privacy rights, portrait rights, source attribution, and applicable platform terms. However, external source material can raise complex rights, licensing, attribution, database, image, publicity, and privacy issues. Publication on the internet does not necessarily mean that content is free to copy, modify, translate, or republish.

If you are a rights holder, data subject, original author, photographer, publisher, platform operator, or authorized representative and believe content on the Service should be corrected, attributed, removed, restricted, or otherwise changed, contact us at contact@reviewinkorea.com.

Your notice should include:

1. Your name and contact information.
2. The URL of the content on REVIEW IN KOREA.
3. The original source URL or other identifying information, if available.
4. A description of the rights or personal information at issue.
5. Evidence of ownership, authorization, consent withdrawal, or other legal basis for the request.
6. The action requested, such as removal, correction, attribution, link update, image replacement, de-indexing, or restriction.
7. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to submit the request.

We may remove, disable, restrict, edit, attribute, replace, preserve, or decline to act on content depending on applicable law, evidence, licenses, permissions, public interest, fair use or similar doctrines where applicable, contractual obligations, safety, and operational considerations. We may forward relevant details to the user, contributor, source, hosting provider, search engine, legal advisor, or competent authority as appropriate.

We may terminate or restrict accounts that repeatedly infringe rights or repeatedly submit unlawful content.

10. AI-Assisted Translation and Localization

The Service may use AI-assisted systems, including the OpenAI API or similar providers, to translate, localize, summarize, format, classify, or improve content. AI-assisted output may be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, culturally imperfect, or inconsistent across languages.

You acknowledge that:

• Translated or localized content is provided for convenience and accessibility.
• Travel information, names, categories, addresses, route descriptions, opening hours, menus, prices, and cultural descriptions may contain errors after translation.
• We may edit, replace, remove, or decline to publish AI-generated translations.
• We may store prompts, outputs, source hashes, and localization metadata for quality control, debugging, provenance, rights management, and audit purposes.
• If you submit User Content, it may be translated or localized using AI-assisted tools unless we state otherwise.

For legal pages, if we provide multiple language versions, the governing-language provision in Section 23 applies.

11. Travel Information Disclaimers

The Service provides travel, cultural, restaurant, cafe, attraction, map, image, and community information for general informational and entertainment purposes only. We do not guarantee that any content is accurate, complete, current, safe, suitable, available, lawful, or error-free.

Travel information can change quickly. You are responsible for independently verifying important information before relying on it, including:

• Opening hours, holiday closures, prices, menus, reservations, booking availability, route information, transportation status, accessibility, age restrictions, safety conditions, weather, laws, visa requirements, and local rules.
• Restaurant, cafe, attraction, business, accommodation, event, transport, and public-service details.
• Map, location, direction, itinerary, and travel-time information.
• Third-party reviews, community posts, images, translations, and recommendations.

We are not a travel agency, tour operator, booking platform, transportation provider, restaurant, cafe, attraction operator, accommodation provider, payment processor, or marketplace. We do not control third-party businesses, venues, government agencies, routes, prices, availability, safety conditions, or third-party services.

You are solely responsible for your travel decisions and for complying with applicable laws, health and safety guidance, visa rules, transportation rules, and venue rules.

12. Advertising and Third-Party Services

The Service may display advertisements, including through Google AdSense or similar advertising services. Ads may be personalized or contextual depending on applicable law, your settings, consent choices, and provider configuration. Advertisers and ad technology providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, browser information, page URLs, ad interaction data, and other information as described in our Privacy Policy.

The Service may also use or link to third-party services, including analytics providers, hosting providers, email providers, AI providers, map providers if added, source websites, social media platforms, advertisers, attractions, restaurants, cafes, travel services, and external websites.

We do not endorse or control third-party websites, products, services, advertisements, content, policies, or practices. Your interactions with third parties are solely between you and the relevant third party. Third-party terms and privacy policies apply to third-party services.

13. Intellectual Property of the Service

The Service, including its design, software, user interface, databases, compiled content, taxonomy, categories, logos, brand names, trademarks, page layouts, features, source code, text, images, graphics, icons, and other materials, is owned by or licensed to REVIEW IN KOREA and is protected by copyright, trademark, database, unfair competition, and other laws.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for personal, non-commercial informational purposes. This license does not allow you to:

• Copy, reproduce, republish, sell, license, distribute, scrape, crawl, mine, or bulk download Service content or data.
• Use our brand, logos, or trademarks without written permission.
• Modify, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, or attempt to extract source code from the Service.
• Use Service content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or build AI systems, search systems, datasets, or competing services without our written permission, except where such restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
• Remove proprietary notices, source attributions, copyright notices, or technical protection measures.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

14. Feedback

If you provide ideas, suggestions, corrections, comments, or other feedback about the Service ("Feedback"), you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use the Feedback for any purpose without restriction or compensation, provided that we will handle personal information contained in Feedback according to the Privacy Policy.

15. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, retain, and protect personal information. By using the Service, you acknowledge that we process personal information as described in the Privacy Policy.

16. Service Changes, Availability, and Suspension

We may modify, suspend, restrict, discontinue, or remove all or part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, where permitted by law. This includes changes to content, languages, routes, features, accounts, community functions, uploads, comments, likes, maps, advertising, analytics, AI localization, and third-party integrations.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted, secure, timely, error-free, or available operation. The Service may be unavailable due to maintenance, updates, failures, attacks, provider outages, legal restrictions, force majeure, or other reasons.

17. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service or your account if we reasonably believe that:

• You violated these Terms or applicable law.
• Your account or content creates legal, security, privacy, rights, reputational, or operational risk.
• Your account is compromised or used for abuse, spam, scraping, fraud, or unauthorized activity.
• We are required or requested to do so by law, court order, regulator, rights holder, or competent authority.
• Continued access would harm users, third parties, the Service, or us.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections intended to survive termination will survive, including provisions concerning User Content licenses, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, dispute resolution, governing law, privacy, legal compliance, and any accrued rights or obligations.

18. No Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service and all content, features, translations, advertisements, third-party links, and information are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.

We disclaim all warranties, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, quiet enjoyment, and that the Service will be secure, uninterrupted, error-free, virus-free, or free from harmful components.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, REVIEW IN KOREA and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or similar damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, business interruption, travel disruption, or cost of substitute services, arising from or related to the Service, these Terms, content, travel decisions, third-party services, advertisements, translations, or user conduct.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising from or related to the Service or these Terms will be limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid us for the Service giving rise to the claim during the three months before the event giving rise to liability; or (b) KRW 100,000.

Because the Service currently does not provide paid checkout or paid membership, the amount you paid us may be zero.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for willful misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury caused by legally attributable fault, fraud, or mandatory consumer rights where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited.

20. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless REVIEW IN KOREA and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or related to:

• Your access to or use of the Service.
• Your User Content.
• Your violation of these Terms or applicable law.
• Your violation of another person's rights, including intellectual property, privacy, publicity, portrait, or contractual rights.
• Your fraud, misrepresentation, misconduct, or unauthorized use of another account.

We reserve the right to control the defense of any matter subject to indemnification, and you agree to cooperate with our defense.

21. Consumer Rights and Mandatory Law

Nothing in these Terms limits rights that you cannot waive under applicable consumer protection, privacy, platform, copyright, or other mandatory law. If any provision of these Terms is unenforceable against a consumer in a particular jurisdiction, that provision will apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms on the Service and update the "Last updated" date. Where required by law or where changes materially affect user rights or obligations, we will provide prior notice through the Service, email, or other appropriate means.

Unless a different effective date is stated, updated Terms take effect when posted. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and may request account deletion.

23. Language Versions

The Service may provide these Terms and other legal documents in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Russian, Filipino, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Mongolian, or other languages.

Unless otherwise stated in a specific localized version or required by mandatory law, the Korean-language version will prevail in the event of conflict or inconsistency among language versions. Until a Korean-language version is posted, this English version is the operative version for the Service. Translations are provided for convenience and accessibility.

24. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or related to the Service or these Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Subject to mandatory consumer protection laws and any jurisdiction that cannot be waived by agreement, the Seoul Central District Court of the Republic of Korea will have exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance over disputes arising from or related to the Service or these Terms. If another court has mandatory jurisdiction under applicable law, that mandatory jurisdiction will apply to the extent required.

25. Notices

We may provide notices through the Service, by email to the address associated with your account, by posting on relevant pages, or by other reasonable means. You are responsible for keeping your account email address current and for reviewing notices posted on the Service.

You may send notices to us at contact@reviewinkorea.com unless a different notice method is required by law or specified by us.

26. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights or obligations under them without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, change of control, or by operation of law, subject to applicable law.

27. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

28. No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce that provision or any other provision later.

29. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms that apply to specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject.

30. Contact

For questions about these Terms, account issues, content complaints, copyright or takedown requests, or Service inquiries, contact:

REVIEW IN KOREA Email: contact@reviewinkorea.com