Editorial policy
JellyGGumi is a personal publication maintained by INa's parent, living in Korea. It combines two kinds of work: practical English-language guides to Korean culture and daily life, and a family record made from our own writing and photographs. Those two kinds of page do not use exactly the same evidence, so this policy explains what a reader should expect from each.
Who is responsible
The site owner decides what is published and is responsible for corrections. JellyGGumi is not a government agency, travel company, medical provider or professional advisory service. A lived observation can explain how something usually works, but it does not replace a current rule from the organisation that operates it.
How AI is used
AI assists research organisation, outlining and early drafting on this English-language site. AI output is never treated as a source. It can write a confident sentence that is incomplete, out of date or simply wrong, so factual claims must be checked against a source that is independent of the generated draft.
Our rule is that AI must not supply a personal visit, a purchase, a family event, a quotation or a documentary family photograph. An unsupported first-person claim is removed rather than presented as family memory. Personal diary pages come from the family's own record. Where an English article is adapted from an earlier Korean post on our Naver Blog, the original post is linked so readers can see the source and publication date.
AI-generated editorial still lifes appear as cover images on guides and on navigation surfaces such as the home and journal headers. They are visibly labelled, are not presented as photographs of a real place or family event, and are never used as evidence for a factual claim. Generated imagery excludes identifiable people, brands and readable personal text. Photographs inside guides published from 31 August 2026 are third-party works under open or government licences, mostly from Wikimedia Commons, and each caption names its source page, licence and creator.
Voice and Naver adaptations
The English voice comes from the family's own Korean diary: bright, scene-first and attentive to the small logistics that shape a day. An adaptation keeps that warmth, practical detail and gentle self-aware humour without copying Korean misspellings, punctuation runs, stickers or private information into English. It does not invent a feeling or event that the source did not record.
Current guides use the same welcoming rhythm but not an invented first-person voice. They begin with a real point of confusion, explain the useful mechanism and keep recommendations qualified by place, date and audience.
Source order for practical guides
When a guide depends on a rule or a changing service, sources are preferred in this order:
- the public body or operator responsible for the rule, service or place;
- a national or municipal tourism organisation;
- a recognised cultural, linguistic or academic institution;
- first-hand observation, clearly described as experience rather than a universal rule.
Commercial travel summaries and search snippets can help locate a topic, but they are not enough to establish a fact on their own. Sources used for a guide are listed at the end of that article. A source link shows what was checked; it does not mean the source endorses JellyGGumi's interpretation.
Dates and changing details
Publication dates identify when an article entered the journal. A separate “reviewed” date records an article-wide source review. A partial correction carries its own date and scope note, without resetting the original publication date or implying that every other source has just been rechecked. Prices, timetables, opening hours, admission rules, transport products and app requirements can change without notice. For those details, the linked operator remains the final authority.
The journal prefers explaining a process over freezing a price that will soon be wrong. When a precise changing detail is necessary, the article should name the date on which it was checked.
Corrections
Corrections are welcome. Please send the page URL, the sentence in question and the best supporting source through the contact page. A factual correction is made in the article rather than hidden in a separate comment thread, and a dated correction note describes material changes. The reviewed date changes only after an article-wide source review.
Photographs, recommendations and advertising
Family photographs belong to the site owner unless a caption says otherwise. They may not be reused without permission. English adaptations omit an identifiable child's face, third-party faces, medical measurements and private addresses unless there is a clear editorial reason and consent to include them.
A personal recommendation is labelled as experience. JellyGGumi does not accept new paid-placement or link-insertion requests. If an older Korean diary entry was originally created after a product or service was provided, its English adaptation opens with that disclosure, removes campaign tracking links and is edited independently. Advertising is kept separate from editorial decisions. Ad-loading code and placements are limited to article pages; the homepage, navigation, search, gallery, game and policy screens do not request ads. Articles marked noindex or explicitly opted out also omit ad requests. The account-ownership meta tag and ads.txt are separate from ad delivery and do not themselves display an advertisement.
Last updated: 5 October 2026.