Editorial standards

How a lesson is written

Every lesson starts from a single named public source, linked at the bottom of the page. We read that source and write the Korean from scratch, in short sentences a learner can actually finish. We never copy, machine-translate, or lightly reword the original article — what you read is our own composition, and the facts in it belong to the source we cite.

What we check before publishing

Every lesson has to clear an automated check before a person is allowed to approve it. The check fails the lesson if:

• a number in the Korean text cannot be found in the cited source
• the lesson uses emphasis the source does not support
• the source article is more than five days old, so it is not really today's news
• two lessons in the same edition cite the same article
• the published page does not match the text that was reviewed

A lesson that fails is fixed or dropped. We publish four lessons rather than ship a fifth we cannot stand behind.

A person decides what goes live

Drafting is automated; publishing is not. The daily drafts are written unpublished — they have no page, appear in no list, and are in no sitemap. Nothing reaches this site until a person has read the day's edition and said so. There is no path here from 'found an article' to 'published a lesson' that does not pass through a human being.

Corrections

We will get things wrong. If you find an error — a fact, a number, a translation, a grammar note — tell us and we will fix it. Write to us at hello@mykornews.com and say which lesson it is. We would rather hear it from you than leave it standing.

What we do not claim

Passing our checks means we found no defect, not that a lesson is beyond error. The Korean is written for learners, so it simplifies: a lesson is a way into a news story, not a substitute for the reporting it cites. When the details matter, read the source — we link it every time.