Takedown & copyright

Klore republishes images from posts that are already circulating on Korean online communities, alongside our own English translation and cultural context. If you made something we're showing and you want it gone, tell us — we'll take it down. You don't need a lawyer and you don't need to explain yourself at length.

What to include

The first two items are the only ones we really need to act. The rest help us confirm we're removing the right thing and not honoring a request from someone unrelated to the work.

1. The Klore page(s) — the full URL, e.g. getklore.com/post/…. If the post has several images, say which one.
2. What's yours — the specific image, photo, video frame, or text you hold rights to.
3. Why it's yours — a link to where you originally published it, or any other evidence you're the rights holder or authorized to act for them.
4. How to reach you — an email address we can reply to.

What happens next

• We acknowledge your email within 3 business days.
• If the request is clear, we remove the material first and discuss afterwards. We'd rather lose a post than keep something a creator doesn't want up.
• Removal means the image files come off our servers, not just the page — and the post is dropped from the site and its sitemap at the next build.
• If we think a request is mistaken (wrong person, wrong image), we'll say so and explain why, rather than silently ignoring it.

We follow a DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process. If you prefer to send a formal DMCA notice, the same address works.

Our sourcing policy

• Every post links back to the original. The source link is on every post page and is a required field in our data — a post cannot be published without it.
• The translation and the “lore” are our own work. We don't republish anyone else's commentary or write-up; the English explanation is written by us for each post.
• Images are re-hosted, not hotlinked, so we never consume someone else's bandwidth. That also means removal is genuinely under our control.
• We use as little as the post needs to make sense — we don't mirror whole galleries or archive a creator's body of work.

Privacy & people in photos

Separately from copyright: if you appear in an image on Klore and you're a private individual, that's reason enough — write to takedown@getklore.com and we'll remove or blur it. You don't have to own the photo to ask. Our editorial rules already require excluding or blurring identifiable faces of private people, so if one slipped through, it's our mistake to fix.

Reader comments

Readers can leave short comments under each post without an account. Every comment goes through an automated safety review before it appears, and readers can report one with the siren button — three reports hide it again for re-review. Something can still slip through.

• To have a comment removed — because it's about you, contains personal information, is defamatory, or just shouldn't be there — email takedown@getklore.com with the post URL, the nickname, and the text of the comment.
• We remove first and ask questions afterwards, within 72 hours of your email — usually much sooner. This is also how we handle takedown requests for defamatory comments under Korea's Information and Communications Network Act.
• If you wrote a comment, you can edit or delete it yourself: from the browser you posted it in, or from anywhere with the optional password you set when posting (there are no accounts). Lost both? The same address works — quote the comment so we can find it; we can't verify authorship, so we remove it anyway.

Something factually wrong?

That's not a takedown — it's a correction, and we want those too. Mail hello@getklore.com. See About Klore for how posts are made and where the context comes from.

This page describes how we handle requests in practice. It isn't legal advice and doesn't limit any rights you have.