Items are collected on a schedule from public feeds and APIs of international bodies, regulators, government publishers, and academic indexes. Each source is recorded with the exact URL that was queried, and a source that fails is placed in backoff rather than retried indefinitely.
Articles are written only from the text of the original publication. If the original cannot be retrieved, no article is written — a headline alone is never enough to write from. Every draft is then checked against that same source text by a separate pass that is instructed to find errors, and claims that the source does not support are removed.
Korean terminology is checked mechanically against IAEA usage, not left to the writer's judgement. Spelling errors are corrected automatically; conceptual misuse — treating 처분 and 저장 as interchangeable, for example — causes the article to be rejected rather than published.
No sentence is copied from a source. Three mechanical tests run before publication: any run of eight or more consecutive words matching the original discards the draft; five-word phrase overlap above six per cent discards it; and a draft that follows the source’s sentence order too closely is discarded even when no wording matches, because copying the arrangement is copying too. The tests cover the headline, dek, body, FAQ and analysis — everything a reader sees.
We do not reproduce a source’s lead sentence, and we do not publish a translation of one. Translating a lead creates a derivative work rather than a quotation, and a lead is the part of a news story that copyright protects most strongly.
Where an institution states that its material requires prior permission for electronic use — IAEA publications and OECD material outside its open-access programme are the cases we have confirmed — we do not render its covers or reuse its images. We link to them instead. Being an international body does not by itself make material free to reuse.
Images are used only when the licence is known. Photographs from public-domain government sources and from openly licensed libraries are used with credit; press photographs are not. Where no licensed image is available, the item is shown without a photograph.