Affiliate disclosure

Short version: some links earn a commission, none of them decide what we publish, and none of them can move a score.

The links that earn

Every one of them is marked rel="sponsored nofollow" in the HTML and opens in a new tab. If you book through one we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. That revenue pays for hosting and for the harvest runs that keep the dataset current.

The firewall

Scores are computed from public review data before any link exists. There is no field in the pipeline for a commercial relationship, no manual ordering step, and no restaurant has ever paid to appear here, to move, or to lose a badge. An operator whose tour we link gets no consideration in the data, and a restaurant with no affiliate relationship at all — which is nearly all of them — is treated identically.

We also state findings that are inconvenient for the higher-commission product. If the local scores say the ground a tour covers is largely tourist-tilted, that is what the food tours page says.

Where the links are, and where they are not

Affiliate units are concentrated on the planning pages, where somebody is actually deciding what to book. The district tables, the two index pages and the individual restaurant scorecards carry no generic affiliate blocks — a scorecard only carries a tour link when the restaurant physically stands on ground a Seoul food tour works, and otherwise carries none.

Trademarks

Naver, KakaoMap, Google, TripAdvisor, Klook, GetYourGuide, Booking.com and Airalo are trademarks of their respective owners. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them; we cite their public listings the way a newspaper cites a source, and the review scores remain theirs.

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