How we check things, and what we got wrong

Every guide here competes with pages that were accurate when they were written. They rank above us today and they are wrong today, because nothing ever made them stop claiming otherwise. This page is the machinery that is meant to stop the same thing happening here — and the record of the time it did not.

Three kinds of check, not a progress bar

A badge on every guide says which kind of evidence it has. They are not stages on the way to the same destination; they are different claims, and we would rather make the smaller one accurately.

• Sourced — every step traced to the platform's own help pages, the official announcement for a show, or press reporting, each linked at the foot of the guide. Nobody from this site went through the flow.
• Reported — the above, and the points where it goes wrong checked against fans who did it from outside Korea. Second-hand, but second-hand from people who hit the wall.
• Verified — somebody here created an account and walked it end to end.

Today all 5 guides are Sourced: 27 steps traced to 13 linked sources, and nobody has walked one end to end. That is on every page, in the place a tick would normally go.

A check has a shelf life, and the weaker one is shorter

Past its date, a guide stops claiming the check by itself. No one has to remember, which is the point, because no one does.

• Sourced — 90 days. Documentation that nobody tested is exactly what is wrong with the guides we are trying to beat, so it is held to the shortest clock.
• Reported — 120 days.
• Verified — 180 days.

The ordering is the whole defence. If a page nobody walked could outlast one somebody did, the ladder would be a way of making a weaker claim last longer. A test in the build fails if anyone ever reverses it.

Expired does not mean wrong. It means the date is old enough that you should check the official announcement for your show before acting on a step — which is advice this page would give you anyway. Once a week an automated job re-checks that every source we cite still resolves, and watches the three ticketing platforms for another rename.

What we will not publish

• A way around an identity check. Where a platform requires Korean 본인인증 we say so and describe the official routes open to overseas fans. Borrowed numbers and other people's memberships lose orders.
• Idol photographs or likenesses. Not one, anywhere, including generated ones. Every figure here is an anonymous silhouette.
• A verification nobody performed. The badge is the product.
• Anything an advertiser asked for. Advertising is labelled, and no advertiser has any say over what a guide says.

Corrections 정정

Every site says it checks its facts. The only evidence that means anything is a dated list of the times the checking failed, so this is ours. Factual errors that reached a published page are logged here permanently, not quietly edited away.

1. 2026-10-19

   The home page timeline, step 7 of the ticketing guide, and the 부정거래 entry in the glossary

   All three said South Korea's revised Performances Act took effect on 28 August 2025.

   It came into force on 28 August 2026 — amended by the National Assembly on 29 January 2026 and promulgated on 27 February. The law had been in effect for seven weeks, not fourteen months, which changes how settled its enforcement is.

   An outside review checked the cited sources rather than the prose. Nobody here caught it in four days of publication.

Tell us we are wrong

A correction is the most useful thing you can send. If a step has changed, if a screen does not look like the one described, or if a guide cost you a sale: hello@kpopgo.app

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