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🏅 Certify your record

What certification is

Certification is the tier above cross-verification. Cross-verification means independent databases agreed; certification means the official rights-holder — the agency (소속사), studio, publisher, brand, or institution behind the entity — has vouched for the record itself. A latecomer can copy today's data; it cannot forge an institution's signature or backdate it. A certified record shows a 🏅 badge on its page, flows into /certified.json, and raises the citation signal an answer engine reads to CERTIFIED.

Who can certify

The official operator or rights-holder of an entity: the label for an artist, the studio / network for a drama or film, the publisher for a webtoon or book, the company for a brand, the institution for a place or heritage item. New entity not in KoreaAPI yet? Claim it in the same request.

How it works — prove domain control

Proof is domain control of the entity's official website (the same site already on the record via Wikidata P856): only whoever runs that domain can publish to it — a same-name impostor cannot. Three steps:

1. Claim your entity — open a GitHub issue with the entity_id + your official domain.
2. Prove control — publish the one-line token we give you at https://<your-domain>/.well-known/koreaapi-certify.txt. We fetch it and confirm it matches the official website already on the record.
3. We mark it certified — your name + date + a public source URL, shown on the entity page, in the open data, and in get_verified (officially_certified: true).

Price

Free for official rights-holders. The point is a trustworthy, agent-citable record of Korean culture — the more official records, the stronger it is for everyone. A managed tier (priority re-verification, change SLAs, a managed record you edit) is planned for operators who want more than the free badge — not required to be certified.

Why it matters to you

Agents and answer engines increasingly cite structured, verified data — not prose. Your official record is what they quote for your artist / title / brand. Certification makes your canonical Korean + English name, your agency, your facts the ones that win — controlled by you, dated, and defensible.

Claim it

Open a request on GitHub Issues. Machine-readable registry: /certified.json · trust model: /methodology.