About
What negunde is
Visiting guides to the museums, palaces, parks and gardens that the Korean state runs itself — written for people who do not read Korean, from the institutions' own announcements.
Korea’s national institutions publish a great deal — opening hours that change with the season, closing days that differ from building to building, free-admission days, booking windows that open a month ahead. Almost all of it is published in Korean only, or in an English summary that is a year out of date. negunde exists to close that gap for the places the state runs itself.
The English articles are the Korean ones in English, with a section added that a resident would never need. The facts are the same and are checked once; the photographs and tables are the same, so nothing is quietly left out. What is written rather than translated is the part a visitor is actually stuck on: how to get there from Incheon, whether the ticket machine will take a foreign card, whether the guided tour is Korean-only. The visiting guides are written in English from the start.
We are an independent service with no affiliation to any of these institutions, and nothing here is sponsored. Every page names the official pages it was checked against and the date it was checked.
Editor
Kang Shin-wook (강신욱) Editor · founder of AIGENN
Reads the announcement boards of the Korea National Park Service, the National Institute of Ecology, the National Museum of Korea and MMCA every day, checks each date, fee and booking condition against the institution’s own page, and writes it up in our own words rather than reposting it. Corrections are welcome and are logged when made.
Who operates it
- Trading name
- AIGENN (아이젠)
- Representative
- 강신욱
- Business registration number
- 495-81-01472
- Registered address
- 6, Changeop-ro 40beon-gil, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
- negunde123@gmail.com
How a page here is made
- The institution publishes something — a press release, a notice, a change to its visitor information.
- We open the institution’s own page for it. A list page is not enough; we link the detail page.
- Anything with a number or a date in it — an opening time, a fee, a capacity — is confirmed against a second page before it goes up.
- We write it in our own words. Quotes are avoided in English entirely, because a quote translated out of a Korean press release is no longer a quote.
- The date of the check is printed on the page, and the pages we checked are linked at the bottom of it.
The full rules are on the editorial policy page, and the licensing of the photographs and open data we use is set out under sources.