About
Governments announce important things
on websites that look like 1998.
So we built this. Korea's official government releases and world news, AI-summarized onto one page. We never copy a single line of the body, it's in Korean and English, and it's entirely free.
What this is
Not a newsroom — a signpost.
We don't write the news, and we don't steal it either. The job is simple: collect the headlines and links that trustworthy sources (government bodies, plus major world outlets) publish over their official RSS, and have AI write a fresh one-line summary from the headline alone. The details always live at the original. We're a signpost, not a destination.
That's why every card shows its source prominently, and government / public-body sources carry a ✓ Official badge. We have no reason to hide where the information came from.
Why this exists
The more important the info, the uglier the page.
Did the base rate move? Is that disaster alert real? Who qualifies for the new subsidy? All important — and all buried across ten ministry sites, PDFs, and pages with broken tables. World news, meanwhile, is simply too much.
We wanted it on one page — but only down the legally clean road. So the Korean half is public-domain government material only; the international half is official publisher RSS only. This isn't a site that reposts someone's article body next to ads. We made that structurally impossible.
What we collect
First-party government data + world headlines.
Policy Briefing (every ministry), Bank of Korea, KOSTAT, KMA, Ministry of Land, Environment, Foreign Affairs, and more. Public-domain under Korean copyright §24-2 — free to use, commercial or not.
Seoul to Jeju, down to high-population districts. Your region detects where you are and floats your local announcements first.
BBC, The Guardian, AP, Al Jazeera, NPR, CNBC, Deutsche Welle, France 24, and more — to see how Korean issues meet the world. Official RSS only.
How it works
Four steps, that's it.
- 1We pull the official RSS of every source above, hourly.
- 2We store the headline and original URL only. No bodies, no images, nothing else ever lands in our DB.
- 3Gemini writes a fresh one-line summary from the headline + a short excerpt — a derivative work, not an extract.
- 4Every card carries a link to the original. Verify there, always.
Copyright posture
The design a lawyer likes.
Korean government material is 100% free to use — §24-2 puts public works in the clear for commercial and non-commercial use alike. Fine to sit next to an ad.
International outlets, official RSS only. Bodies never stored, images never shown, every click goes to the publisher. Publishing an RSS feed is widely understood as consent to title + link reuse. Rights holders wanting removal: the editorial principles page — 24-hour turnaround.
Where this is going
Public information, made readable.
The direction is clear. Not a catch-all aggregator, but the best place to read Korea's public and government information. So we're building:
- Policy explainers — Not a list of press releases — background, substance, impact, and how to apply.
- Disaster & safety — Weather alerts, quakes, incidents — the one-minute-matters stuff, up front.
- Your region — Local public announcements by where you are. Nobody else does this.
- In English too — Surprisingly few outlets cover Korean policy properly in English. That gap.
- Time-boxed election board — On big days, turnout and results on one screen. Then it quietly disappears.
- A public API — Our curated data, free for students, hackathons, and devs — no key required.
Pledges
Things we will never do.
Take a look
Words are cheap. Go see.
Who made this
One person. Free stack. Stubbornness.
Started as a side project; the stack is free or near-free end to end — Next.js (Cloudflare Workers), D1 (SQLite), Gemini AI, GitHub Actions, Resend. The code is open on GitHub.
Thoughts, missing sources, takedown requests — anything to support@odinbox.co.kr.