How we check our dates

Korea What's On is a calendar of dated events across South Korea, published by Maison V Group LLC. This page explains, in plain terms, how a date gets onto the calendar, what our labels mean, and what happens when a date turns out to be wrong. It is the standard every listing is held to, including the awkward ones.

The rule

An event is listed with a confirmed date only when an official page states the date and the venue, and we have read that statement ourselves. Official means the organiser, the venue, the rights holder, or the ticketing platform carrying the sale: in Korea that is usually NOL Ticket (Interpark) and its global storefront NOL World, Melon Ticket and Melon Ticket Global, YES24 Ticket, or Ticketlink. A listing in a roundup, a fan account or a news article is a lead, not a source.

The two labels

Confirmed dates means the official page says so, and the date of our check is printed on the event page. Tentative date means the organiser has not published the edition yet, and the window comes from the previous edition, from tradition, or from a single secondary source we could not yet read at first hand. The label appears everywhere the date does, and the event page explains the basis. We would rather show an honest window than a confident guess.

At launch the calendar carries 56 events, 25 of them with confirmed dates. Korea announces in short cycles, often two to four months ahead, so the tentative share is higher here than on our sister calendars. It falls as the announcements land and the rechecks run.

When sources disagree

They do, regularly: a listing site places a show in the wrong hall, a roundup prints last year's weekend, two platforms carry different dates for the same run. When that happens we follow the strongest source, usually the organiser's own announcement or the platform actually selling the tickets, and we say so in the record. If we cannot settle it, the event is labelled tentative and the conflict is written into its page rather than silently resolved.

Prices

A price appears only where a booking listing published it, and it is the entry price from that listing, in won. Where no listing publishes a price, the field stays empty. No price is estimated, averaged or carried over from a previous edition.

Corrections

Dates move. When an organiser changes a date, a recheck catches it and the record is updated with the new check date. If you spot a date we have wrong, the contact page reaches the team that maintains the calendar, and corrections go to the front of the queue.

More reading on the articles page, or go straight to the events calendar.