We show where our photos and population data come from.

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Regional photos

We reviewed 230 distinct Wikimedia Commons originals using contact sheets for regional match, watermarks and small-size recognition. Each listing gives original title, creator, source, CC or public-domain license and 3:2 crop, resize and WebP conversion.

View credits for 230 photos

2026.07

Registered population

Monthly municipal population CSVs from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety were joined to 230 boundaries by five-digit administrative code. City pages with constituent districts identify totals.

Original population data

Sourced places

Local places to visit

Places and their sources are shown where verified. Selection is not a popularity ranking.

OpenStreetMap attribution and ODbL

Sourced places

Current local menus

The ministry’s “good-price business (착한가격업소)” current list is matched by five-digit regional code to show local store names, addresses, menus and listed prices. This does not imply specialty, origin, current opening or taste ranking. Gongju dishes verified by municipal sources are separate.

Ministry of the Interior and Safety: good-price businesses

Only when data is fresh

Festivals now

Using Korea Tourism Organization data via Galgap (갈값), we show retrieval time and update status for listed regions.

View collection scope

Scheduled checks

Updates and review

The freshness manifest manages expiry separately for population, boundaries, photos, facilities, menus and festivals. Scheduled checks verify integrity, counts and source availability; failures retain last-known-good data without advancing only the date. Photo, boundary and description changes are quarantined until verified and previewed.

Integrity verified

230 boundaries

Administrative codes took effect 2026-07-01; boundaries use Jidogam (지도감) v2026-08-24 edition. Original SHA-256 and administrative succession table are checked at build time.

Travel research: discovery, local use and sharing.

Research informs screen structure. Competitors’ code, text and protected images were not copied.