At Korea Market Wire, we adhere to the highest international standards of journalistic integrity, accuracy, and editorial transparency. Our newsroom operations align with the professional principles established by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook.
1. Fact-Checking & Primary Source Verification
Accuracy takes precedence over speed. Every factual claim, financial figure, executive quote, and regulatory statistic published on Korea Market Wire must undergo rigorous verification.
- Primary Regulatory Sources: We prioritize verified institutional records, including official DART (Financial Supervisory Service) disclosures, Korea Exchange (KRX) announcements, ministerial press releases (MOTIE, MSIT), and corporate earnings presentations.
- Multi-Source Rule: Unverified industry rumors, speculative social media chatter, and anonymous forum claims are excluded from reporting unless independently confirmed by at least two distinct, credible industry sources.
- Attribution: When citing external reporting or third-party market research (e.g., SNE Research, TrendForce, Bloomberg), we provide explicit textual attribution and direct hyperlinks to the original source.
2. Conflicts of Interest & Financial Independence
To preserve objective coverage of strategic equity markets and corporations:
- Equities Trading Prohibition: Editorial staff and contributing analysts are strictly prohibited from actively trading or holding individual stock shares of companies they cover on their immediate beat.
- Gift & Hospitality Policy: Staff members may not accept monetary payments, significant gifts, subsidized junkets, or hospitality intended to influence editorial framing.
- Clear Disclosure: Any potential institutional relationship or unavoidable conflict of interest must be disclosed transparently within the relevant article.
3. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy & Human Oversight
In compliance with emerging global journalism ethics and Google Search quality standards:
- Human Editorial Control: Every article, headline, and executive briefing published on Korea Market Wire is written, fact-checked, edited, and approved by qualified human journalists.
- Restricted Tool Usage: Generative AI systems are utilized strictly as assistive productivity tools—for processing large numerical datasets, summarizing public foreign-language regulatory text, or grammatical enhancement. AI is never used to fabricate reporting, invent anonymous quotes, or substitute for verified fact-checking.
- Zero Hallucination Tolerance: All AI-assisted data extractions must be manually cross-referenced against the original primary document before publication.
4. Sponsored Content & Commercial Separation
Korea Market Wire maintains a strict firewall between editorial production and commercial monetization. Any commercial partnership, advertorial, or sponsored reportage is conspicuously labeled with a "Sponsored" or "Advertisement" tag and coded with rel="sponsored" link attributes.