Privacy Policy
“Korean History: Miracle of the Korean Peninsula” (“this site”) complies with the Personal Information Protection Act of Korea and other applicable laws, and explains below how it handles information about its users.
1. Personal information this site collects directly
This site has no sign-up, login, comment or payment features. It does not directly collect personal information such as names, email addresses or phone numbers, nor store it on a server, and it does not separately collect personal information from children under 14.
2. Information stored only on your device
For your convenience, the settings below are saved in your browser’s storage (local storage). This information stays on your device and is never sent to the site operator.
- Which episodes you have read and how far, and the last episode and position you were reading (the “Continue reading” feature)
- Sound on/off, background music on/off, and volume
You can delete this information at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.
3. Advertising and cookies (Google AdSense)
This site displays Google AdSense ads to support its operation.
- What cookies are — Small text files that a website stores in your browser, used to recognize the same browser on your next visit.
- Who uses them, and why — Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. Advertising cookies are also used to measure ad performance and prevent fraudulent clicks.
- How they are collected — When you open a page on this site, Google’s ad code stores or reads cookies in your browser. The site operator cannot identify individual users from this information.
- How to opt out — You can turn off personalized advertising in Google Ad Settings, and opt out of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info. You can also block cookies in your browser settings. Even then you can still use the site, and you may see non-personalized ads.
- To learn how Google uses the information it collects, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
- If you visit from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a notice may ask for your consent before advertising cookies are used.
4. External services loaded to display pages
When a page opens, fonts, photos and ads are loaded from the services below. Your IP address and browser information may be passed to these services, and each service’s own privacy policy applies.
- Google Fonts — Fonts
- Wikimedia Commons — Photos in the History Notes
- Google AdSense — Advertisement
- Cloudflare — Hosts the site and may process access logs (such as IP addresses) for security and service operation.
5. Your rights
Because this site does not keep any information that could identify you, there are no records for you to request access to, correction of, or deletion of. You can delete the settings stored on your device directly in your browser, and you can manage advertising-related information in Google Ad Settings. If you have any questions, please contact us below.
6. Privacy contact
Person responsible for privacy: the site operator
Email: [email protected]
Reports of or consultations about privacy violations can be made to the Korean Personal Information Infringement Report Center (privacy.kisa.or.kr, call 118 within Korea) or the Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (www.kopico.go.kr, 1833-6972).
7. Changes to this policy
This policy takes effect on October 23, 2026. If it changes, we will announce it on this page. This English version is a translation of the Korean original; if the two differ, the Korean version prevails.