Sources and photography

Travel references

Checked 4 October 2026. Each guide links to its relevant references. General preparation tips and example Korean conversations are identified as such.

Through the palace gate

The closing scene uses photographs of Heungnyemun Gate and Geunjeongjeon Hall at Gyeongbokgung Palace by Basile Morin, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The gate photograph is cropped, shaded, and separated into animated door panels. The revealed hall is a separate photograph combined for the transition, not a continuous filmed view. Both photographs and these photographic adaptations remain CC BY-SA 4.0. Source links and individual credits appear below.

Photography & motion

Homepage photographs use a slow pan and zoom. The floating Hangul artwork is an original Day1Korean graphic.

Source and licence details for sourced photography are listed below. Supplied photographs are identified separately. Images are resized, compressed, and may be cropped to fit the layout. Creative Commons images retain their listed licences; the Naksansa coastal photograph by Minquddyd, used for the film preview, and its displayed adaptations remain CC BY-SA 4.0.

Traditional tiled rooftops in Bukchon with central Seoul beyond — Jonas Eriksson. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Resized for display.
The turquoise storefront and tiled roof of Daeo Bookstore in Seochon — chansu shin. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Resized for display.
Coffee and tiramisu on a wooden counter at a Seoul cafe — note thanun. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Resized for display.
Lotte World Tower and Seokchon Lake glowing with city lights at dusk in Seoul — Kim Mingzhu. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Resized proportionally with Lanczos and encoded as WebP quality 85, method 6, preserving embedded color profile. No crop, filters, color adjustments, or generative edits.
Passengers and rows of seats beside large windows at Incheon International Airport — Manki Kim. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Proportionally resized with Lanczos; WebP quality 82, method 6. No crop, filters, generative edits, or color adjustments.
Green bench seats and blue hand straps inside a Seoul subway train — Bakhodirjon Abduraimov. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Proportionally resized with Lanczos; WebP quality 82, method 6. No crop, filters, generative edits, or color adjustments.
Two white beds and a sofa in a hotel room in Pangyo, Seongnam — oning. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Proportionally resized with Lanczos; WebP quality 82, method 6. No crop, filters, generative edits, or color adjustments.
People walking along a narrow Seoul street lined with Korean shop signs at sunset — Robson Hatsukami Morgan. Unsplash License (free photo, not Unsplash+)Proportionally resized with Lanczos; WebP quality 73, method 6. No crop, filters, generative edits, or color adjustments.
Haedong Yonggungsa temple buildings and a white bridge above the rocky turquoise coast in Busan. — Seokjoon Choi. CC BY 2.0Resized to 1400px wide, converted from JPEG to WebP; no content manipulation.
Uisangdae Pavilion among pine trees on the rocky coast at Naksansa Temple in Yangyang. — Minquddyd. CC BY-SA 4.0Resized to 1400px wide, converted from JPEG to WebP; no content manipulation.
Visitors approach the red and green Uisangdae Pavilion at Naksansa, with the blue sea behind it. — Bernard Gagnon. CC0 1.0Resized to 1400px wide, converted from JPEG to WebP; no content manipulation.
Seoul skyline and N Seoul Tower above the Han River beneath a violet-blue evening sky. — Jiyeon K. Unsplash LicenseResized and compressed to WebP. Homepage presentation uses slow CSS pan and zoom; the source photo is not a video. No colour alteration.
Geunjeongjeon throne hall seen across the stone courtyard at Gyeongbokgung Palace — Basile Morin. CC BY-SA 4.0Proportionally resized and WebP compressed. The animated doorway crops and shades this image with CSS, as an artistic transition. Photograph and its displayed adaptations remain CC BY-SA 4.0.
The closed red central doors beneath the two tiled roofs of Heungnyemun at Gyeongbokgung Palace — Basile Morin. CC BY-SA 4.0Cropped to the central gate facade and WebP compressed. CSS shades and animates two regions of the photographed central door. The photograph and its adaptations remain CC BY-SA 4.0.

Supplied photography

The following Naksansa photographs were supplied for this Day1Korea preview. They are separate from the licensed stock photographs listed above.

A pine tree and pavilion above the sea at NaksansaEncoded directly from the supplied JPEG at native dimensions as WebP quality 82, method 6. Original embedded ICC profile preserved. No crop, filters, colour adjustments, generative edits, or native-size resampling.
A coastal path beside the sea at NaksansaEncoded directly from the supplied JPEG at native dimensions as WebP quality 85, method 6. Original embedded ICC profile preserved. No crop, filters, colour adjustments, generative edits, or native-size resampling.
Flowers and a traditional temple courtyard at NaksansaEncoded directly from the supplied JPEG at native dimensions as WebP quality 82, method 6. Original embedded ICC profile preserved. No crop, filters, colour adjustments, generative edits, or native-size resampling.

Film

Feel the Rhythm of KOREA: GANGNEUNG — VISITKOREA / Korea Tourism Organization. Shown through the official YouTube player. Official tourism article.

Korean audio

Korean pronunciation audio is AI-generated using Supertonic 3 by Supertone, with the F1 preset voice. The files are served by this site and play when you select a listening control. Slow playback preserves the voice’s pitch where supported by your browser.

Supertonic project · Model licence: OpenRAIL-M · sherpa-onnx generation runtime

Typography

English and selected Korean and Japanese typefaces are served by Adobe Fonts. Paperlogy is by PT&, redesigned by Lee Juim and planned by Kim Do-gyun, with glyphs based on Gmarket Sans and Montserrat.

Paperlogy font licence · Official Paperlogy information

With credit.With care.