How Seoul Sunbae Makes Money

Seoul Sunbae is free to read. Some links in the guides are affiliate links, and that is the only way the site earns money from readers.

Affiliate Links

When a guide mentions something you can book, such as a day tour, a hotel near a festival or a transfer, we sometimes link to a booking site like Klook or Agoda through an affiliate programme. If you book through that link, the site pays us a small share of the sale. Your price is the same as going direct.

How You Can Tell

Affiliate links sit in clearly labelled boxes marked “Affiliate link” inside the guides. Ordinary links to official sites, such as VisitKorea, Seoul city or a festival page, are never affiliate links.

Our Rules

Recommendations come first. We decide what is worth your time before we look for a link, and we say skip it when something is not worth it, even if it could earn us money.

Free options get equal space. Wherever there is a free or cheaper way to do something, the guide tells you.

No clinics, ever. Seoul Sunbae never takes commissions, referral fees or free treatments from clinics, hospitals or medical facilitators. Health guides name hospitals only as factual examples of how the system works.

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More Detail

The full wording is on the affiliate disclosure page.