# Kagit

> What's trending in Korea — and what's worth discovering. Kagit is a K-culture media site with multi-source rankings and a page for each brand, product, show, group, person and creator we track.
> For businesses: Understand K-culture demand. Find creators. Enter global markets.

Kagit (https://kagit.kr) covers K-pop, K-beauty, K-drama, K-food, K-style, K-travel, K-biz and K-medi. Most articles are written in Traditional Chinese and some are translated into other languages.

## Languages and URLs

The interface exists in five languages. Traditional Chinese is the default and lives at the un-prefixed root; the others use a path prefix, so every language version is its own canonical URL:

- https://kagit.kr/ — Traditional Chinese (繁體中文, default, no prefix)
- https://kagit.kr/zh/… — Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
- https://kagit.kr/en/… — English
- https://kagit.kr/ko/… — Korean (한국어)
- https://kagit.kr/ja/… — Japanese (日本語)

Four more languages exist for article text only — Thai (/th/), Vietnamese (/vi/), Indonesian (/id/) and Portuguese (/pt/) — at /{lang}/posts/{slug}. On those pages the interface falls back to English. Not every article exists in every language: each article's hreflang links list only the languages it was really published or translated into. The old ?locale= query parameter redirects to the path prefix.

## Articles

- [Latest articles](https://kagit.kr/latest): newest articles across all topics
- [Explore](https://kagit.kr/explore): topics and categories
- https://kagit.kr/posts/{slug}: one article. Where an article was reported from a public document we can name, a Sources block and the NewsArticle "citation" list link to it. Many articles start from community or social posts, which our editorial policy does not name publicly, so most articles have no Sources block.
- https://kagit.kr/{topic}: topic front pages (k-pop, k-beauty, k-drama, k-food, k-travel, k-style, k-biz, k-medi)
- https://kagit.kr/categories/{slug}: category archives
- https://kagit.kr/reporters/{slug}: reporter and AI-desk pages. AI-written articles say so on the article and on the desk page.

## Entity pages

- https://kagit.kr/hub/{slug}: one page per entity in our registry — a beauty brand or product, a drama or show, a K-pop group or track, a person or a creator. The page shows the entity's latest position in its Kagit ranking (rank, score out of 100, change since the previous update), its rank over the last 90 days, how many separate sources are behind the score, the signals each source contributed, and related articles. When an entry has too little data behind it (too few sources or measured dimensions) it is held outside the ranking, and the page says so instead of showing a rank.
- Structured data uses a schema.org type that matches the entity (Brand, TVSeries, MusicGroup, MusicRecording, Person; Thing when we are not sure, and for products until we can list where to buy them) and links the Wikidata item through "sameAs" when we have one.
- Only entity pages with a public ranking entry in the last 90 days or at least one related article are in the sitemap and open to indexing; the rest are marked noindex. Creator entity pages are indexed only when the creator is listed in the public K-influencer directory.

## Rankings

- [Rankings](https://kagit.kr/rankings): index of the ranking categories that currently publish data
- https://kagit.kr/rankings/{category}: the current ranking — k-pop, k-beauty, k-drama, k-food and k-style are computed daily, the K-influencer index weekly. A category appears only once it has published data. This page always shows the newest run. When that run did not pass pre-publish validation, the page still shows it and says so in a notice; treat such a run as provisional.
- https://kagit.kr/rankings/{category}/{YYYY-MM-DD}: the ranking exactly as it stood on that day, with schema.org Dataset markup. Only runs that passed pre-publish validation are archived, so some days are missing and the newest archived day can be older than the current ranking. The archive goes back to March 2026 for k-pop and k-beauty.
- [How rankings are calculated](https://kagit.kr/rankings/methodology): scores are 0–100 and combine weighted dimensions measured from several sources. Each ranking page names the dimensions and sources used in that run, and the dimensions that were left out.

## For businesses

- [Kagit for Business](https://kagit.kr/for-brands): three beta programs, each started with an inquiry (there is no public price list). Creator Network — finding and checking creators from our pool, outreach, and a record of how each campaign went. Global Launch — a staffed program that helps a Korean beauty brand pick a market, a message and creators, then run a small sales test. Intelligence — ranking history, rising entities and trend data, with API access on request. Entity pages of K-beauty, K-food and K-style brands link here.
- [K-beauty Intelligence (beta)](https://kagit.kr/intelligence/k-beauty): a public summary of the K-beauty ranking for the latest week — what is rising, what newly entered, and what moved most. Built only from validated daily ranking runs. Each entry shows how many data sources are behind it, not which ones. Fuller data is available on request.
- [Developers](https://kagit.kr/developers): what the Kagit data API offers and how to request access. Beta, started with an inquiry; there is no public price list and no self-serve key.
- [K-influencer directory](https://kagit.kr/influencers): public creator profiles with platform reach, engagement and topic areas; https://kagit.kr/influencers/{handle} is one creator
- [For creators](https://kagit.kr/for-creators): how creators get listed, claim a profile and receive campaign offers

## Editorial standards

- [Editorial policy](https://kagit.kr/editorial-policy): how articles are produced, including AI reporters under human editorial oversight, sourcing rules and corrections
- [Corrections](https://kagit.kr/corrections): published corrections
- [About](https://kagit.kr/about): who runs Kagit
- [Contact](https://kagit.kr/contact): editorial@kagit.kr for corrections and press, brands@kagit.kr for business inquiries

## Feeds and sitemaps

- [Sitemap index](https://kagit.kr/sitemap.xml): chunked — site sections, entity pages, then all published articles
- [Google News sitemap](https://kagit.kr/news-sitemap.xml): articles from the last 48 hours
- [RSS](https://kagit.kr/rss.xml): append ?locale=zh|en|ko|ja for a single-language feed