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Any matters in respect to the service usage agreement of the Sejonghakdang are defined here.

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Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 (Objective)
The purpose of this Agreement is to define the conditions of use and procedures of all services(hereinafter, “services”) provided by the Sejonghakdang website (hereinafter, "The Site"), and rights, obligations, responsibilities and other necessary matters between the users and our site.

Article 2 (Representation and amendment of the Agreement)
1. The Site shall post the content of this Agreement, address, name of administrator, name of the person in charge of privacy policy, contact information (telephone, fax, e-mail address, etc.) on the initial service screen (front) of the Site to allow users to understand it.
2. The Site may amend this Agreement insofar as any amendment does not breach the Regulation of Standardized Contracts Act, the Framework Act on Electronic Commerce, the Digital Signature Act, the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc., the Act on Door-to-door Sales, etc., and the Consumer Protection Act.
3. In case the Site amends this Agreement, the application date and reason shall be presented on the initial screen of the Site from seven days before the application date until the day before application date related to this Agreement.
4. The Site will provide you with services on the condition that you agree to this Agreement, and if you agree to the contents of this Agreement, the provision activities of the services of the Site and using activities of the services shall be subject to this Agreement preferentially.
5. Your consent to this Agreement shall mean that you agree to the confirmation of the changes in this Agreement by regularly visiting the Site. The Site shall not be responsible for any losses to users occurred by ignorance of the information on changes to this Agreement.
6. If any members do not agree to the changes in this Agreement, they may request withdrawal (termination). If they continue to use the services without expressing refusal seven days after the effective date of the changed Agreement, it shall be considered that they agree to the changes in the Agreement.
7. The matters not specified in this Agreement shall be regulated by the Framework Act on Telecommunications, Regulations of Korea Internet Safety Commission, Code of conduct on Telecommunication, Computer Programs Protection Act and other related laws and regulations.

Article 3 (Definitions)
The definitions of terminologies used in this Agreement are as follows:
1. User: The person who receives the services provided by the Site in accordance with this Agreement.
2. Membership agreement: The agreement concluded between the Site and users in regard to the service usage.
3. Sign-up: The filling out of the application form provided by the Site with related information, and conclusion of the service Membership agreement by agreeing to this Agreement.
4. Member: The person who is registered by providing personal information necessary for sign-up at the Site, and who can use the information and services of the Site.
5. Electronic mail address (ID): This refers to the electronic mail address selected by the user and granted by the Site to identify the user and use the service.
6. Password (PW): The combination of texts and numeric numbers selected by users to identify whether the user is the same person as the registered member and protect personal information on the network.
7. Withdrawal (termination): It refers to the action of terminating the Membership agreement by a member
8. Any terminologies not defined by this Agreement shall be defined by separate agreement and usage regulations for individual services.

Chapter 2 Conclusion and Termination of Membership agreement

Article 4 (Conclusion of Membership agreement)
1. The Membership agreement establishes the acceptance of using the Site in accordance with the Membership agreement and application to use the Site.
2. The consent to this Membership agreement shall be represented by pushing ‘I Agree’ button on the Site when applying for the usage.

Article 5 (Sign-up and withdrawal)
1. Sign-up shall be completed when applicants finish the sign-up by recording requirements stated by the application form provided by the Site.
2. The Site may cancel sign-up for the members who fall under any of the following categories:
- 1) Applicants using another person’s name;
- 2) Applicants providing false information in the application form or falsely applying;
- 3) Applicants applying for the purpose of impeding public peace, order or public morals of the society;
- 4) Applicants interrupting others’ service use or stealing information;
- 5) Applicants breaching any laws by using the Site or conducting activities prohibited by this Agreement, and
- 6) Applicants who do not complete the requirements for sign-up specified by the Site.
3. In the case of any of the following, the Site may delay the conclusion of the Membership agreement until the reason is resolved:
- 1) In case the capacity related to service is insufficient, and
- 2) In case there is any technical problem.
4. The services provided by the Site are as follows, and the services specified as below may be changed and provided after notifying users of the changes:
1) Services developed by the Site or provided through other institutes.
5. In the event that there are any changes in the registered information, the member shall promptly notify the changes to the Site by using the facility for the revision of members information.
6. You may withdraw (terminate) your membership anytime after signing up if there is any reason including the reason that you no longer want to receive the services provided by the Site.

Article 6 (Granting of user ID and other changes, etc.)
1. The Site shall grant user ID to customers pursuant to the Agreement.
2. The user ID is basically unchangeable. If any user wants to change it due to unavoidable reason, the original ID shall be terminated and the user shall sign up again. (needs to be confirmed)
3. If any of the following applies, the user ID may be changed upon the request of the user or the company:
- 1) If the user ID is registered as a telephone number or resident registration number of the user, privacy may be invaded as a consequence.
- 2) If the user ID makes causes offense to others or is damaging to public morals, and
- 3) If there are any other valid reasons.
4. The responsibility of managing user ID and password is on the user. The user shall be responsible for any losses incurred due to negligent care or misuse by a third party, and the Site shall never be held responsible for such losses.
5. Other matters in respect to the management and changes in personal information of the users shall be subject to the policies of the Site.

Article 7 (Consent to using member information)
1. The privacy policy of the Site shall be applied to the protection of your personal information.
2. The member information of the Site is collected, used, managed and protected as follows:
- 1) Collection of personal information: The Site collects your information through the information provided by you when you sign up on the Site.
- 2) Using personal information: The Site shall not disclose nor distribute your personal information collected in regard to the services of the Site to any third party without your consent. However, in case any government agency requires information pursuant to laws like the Telecommunication Basic Act is received, any request for the purpose of the investigation of a crime is received, any request by the Korea Internet Safety Commission, any request pursuant to the procedures specified in the related laws and regulations is received, or you voluntarily disclose your personal information that you provided to the Site, the agreement not to disclose personal information shall not apply.
- 3) Management of personal information: You may amend/delete your personal information any time through the personal information management menu of the service to protect and manage the personal information. You also may change/adjust the received information if you think it is unnecessary.
- 4) Protection of personal information: Your personal information shall be viewed/amended/deleted only by you, and it is absolutely managed by your ID and password. Therefore, you shall not give your ID and password to others, and you shall log out when finishing your work and close the window of the web browser. (This is required to protect your information in case you use a computer in public spaces such as an Internet café or public library where computers are shared.)
3. If you apply for service use to the Site in accordance with this Agreement, it will be considered that you agree that the Site collects and uses the member information written on the application pursuant to this Agreement.

Article 8 (Information security by users)
1. From the moment when you finish the sign-up procedure of the service, you will be responsible for maintaining the secrecy of the information you entered, and you will be responsible for all results incurred by using the ID and password.
2. You will be responsible for everything in regard to the management of the ID and password, and if you discover that your ID and password have been misused, you shall report the matter to the Site immediately. You shall be responsible for consequences due to a failure to report ID and password misuse.
3. Users shall disconnect (log-out) the service whenever they finish using the service of the Site, and if any damage and loss occurs as a result of theft of your information due to your failure to disconnect (log-out) from the Site shall not be held responsible for that damage or loss...

Chapter 3 Services

Article 9 (Service hours)
1. The service hours shall be basically 365 days a year and 24 hours a day unless there is any special work or technical problem related to the Site.
2. The days or hours designated by the Site for carrying out regular maintenance shall be except from the service hours specified in Paragraph 1.

Article 10 (Service suspension and notification for the suspension)
1. If your message stored at the Site or transferred through the Site and other communication message is not stored or deleted, or not transferred and other communication data is lost due to national emergency, power failure, service facility trouble out of the control of the Site and other unforeseen events, the Site shall not be responsible.
2. In case the Site has to suspend the service temporarily due to the difficulty of providing a normal service, the Site may suspend the service after notifying users of the reason for suspension and its date on the homepage one week before the suspension, and the Site shall not be responsible for any damage incurred because a user was unaware of the notification. If there is any unavoidable reason, this prior notice period may be reduced or omitted. Moreover, if a message stored at the Site or transferred through the Site and other communication message is not stored or deleted, or not transferred and other communication data is lost due to the service suspension, the Site shall not be responsible.
3. If the Site has to stop the service permanently due to the circumstances of the Site, it shall be pursuant to Paragraph 2. In this case, however, the prior notice period shall be one month.
4. The Site may amend, change and suspend the service temporarily after the prior notice, and you or a third party shall not claim compensation from the Site for any such change or suspension.
5. The Site may suspend the service temporarily without advance notice due to unavoidable reasons including urgent system maintenance, enlargement and replacement, and the Site may completely stop the current service should the Site determine that it is appropriate, such as replacement with a new service.
6. The Site may partially limit or suspend the whole or partial service if it cannot provide normal services due to national emergencies, power failure, service facility problem or congested usage of the service, provided, however, that the reason and period shall be published to the users before or after the event.
7. The Site cannot post an advance notice in case of service interruption due to a reason which the Site cannot control (disk error without intended fault of the system administrator, system breakdown, etc.), and the Site shall not post an advance notice in the case of others (Internet service provider, infrastructure communication company, etc.) committing intended fault.
8. The Site may divide the services by specific categories and designate available hours by each category, provided, however, that the contents will be published.
9. The Site may limit and suspend the service use, or terminate the Agreement without your consent if you commit activities which breach this Agreement. In this case, the Site may prohibit the User’s connection to the Site.

Article 11 (Information and advertisement)
1. The Site may provide a variety of information to you through homepage, electronic mail or post mail in the course of operating the service.
2. The Site may post advertisements which are appropriate for its services or beneficial to the public.

Article 12 (Management and operation of the postings on the Site)
1. The rights on the contents of the postings posted by you shall be yours.
2. The Site shall reserve the right to edit or move postings without advance notice, and may delete them without prior notice for any of the following reasons:
- 1) If any postings violate this Agreement, or in case such postings are determined to be commercial, lewd or vulgar;
- 2) If any postings abuse other members or a third party, or defame others’ reputation;
- 3) If any postings obstruct public order or harm public morals;
- 4) If any postings are connected to criminal activities;
- 5) If any postings infringe the copyright of a third party, and
- 6) If any postings violate other related laws.
3. The civil and criminal obligation incurred from your posting’s infringement of the copyright owned by others shall be fully your responsibility.

Article 13 (Service use limitation)
1. If the information provided by you is confirmed to be false information, or if there is any reason to suspect that it is false information, the Site may suspend your service use in whole or in part, and the Site shall not be responsible for any disadvantage which may occur due to this.
2. In case you commit activities breaching this Agreement including the Article 15 (Obligation of members), the Site may discretionally limit and suspend the service use. In this case, the Site may prohibit your connection to the Site.

Chapter 4 Obligations and responsibilities

Article 14 (Obligation of the Site)
1. The Site shall not conduct activities prohibited by laws and this Agreement, or which is immoral, and the Site is obliged to make efforts to provide the services continuously and stably.
2. The Site shall not divulge nor distribute the personal information of members without consent of the member. However, if related government agencies require pursuant to the related laws such as telecommunication laws, this obligation shall not apply.
3. The Site shall have a security system to protect personal information (including credit information) of the users and allow the users to use the services.
4. The Site shall not be responsible for the service use problems due to the user’s fault.

Article 15 (Obligation of members)
1. The information required upon sign-up shall be accurately entered. Moreover, the information already provided shall be maintained and renewed to become accurate, and the members shall not allow others to use their ID and password.
2. Members shall not conduct any commercial activities by using the services without prior consent of the Site.
3. Members shall not copy, replicate, amend, translate, publish the information obtained by using the services of the Site, nor use it by other methods including broadcasting, nor provide it to others without prior consent of the Site.
4. Members shall not conduct any of the following activities in regard to the service use of the Site:
- 1) Activities to steal and misuse the password and ID of other members;
- 2) Activities to transfer, post, publish, or transfer by electronic mail or other methods the contents which are vulgar, lewd, insulting, threatening or violating others’ privacy;
- 3) Activities to disguise the source of contents transferred through the service;
- 4) Activities to transfer the contents through posting, publishing, electronic mail or other methods, which cannot be used upon laws and agreements;
- 5) Activities to post, publish, or transfer any contents which infringe patent, trademark, business secret, copyright, and other intellectual property right through electronic mail or other methods;
- 6) Activities to post, publish, or transfer advertisement, leaflets, spam mail, letter of fortune, pyramid organization and other type of requests which are not approved by the Site through electronic mail or other methods;
- 7) Activities to collect or save other users’ personal information;
- 8) Activities for the purpose of crime or related to criminal activities;
- 9) Activities that harm morality or other social order;
- 10) Activities to defame or insult others’ reputation;
- 11) Activities that infringe the rights including others’ intellectual property rights;
- 12) Hacking or distribution of computer viruses;
- 13) Activities to continuously transfer constant contents such as advertisements against the will of others.’
- 14) Activities that impede the safe operation of the service;
- 15) Activities that change any information posted on the Site, and
- 16) Activities that violate Article 53 Paragraph 1 of the Telecommunications Business Act, and Article 16 of the Enforcement Decree of the Telecommunications Business Act (dangerous communication)

Chapter 5 Others

Article 16 (Ownership of the Site)
1. The Site reserves the right to have services provided by the Site, software necessary to provide the service, intellectual property right related to image, mark, logo, design, service name, information and trademark, and other rights.
2. You shall not revise, rent, lease, sell, distribute, produce, assign, re-license, and pledge each property in whole or in part, nor use it commercially, nor allow the third party to conduct these activities unless the Site clearly approves the activity.

Article 17 (Prohibition of transfer)
The members shall not transfer nor give the service use right and other position in the Agreement, and shall not provide it as collateral.

Article 18 (Damage Compensation)
The Site shall not be responsible for any damage occurred to the members in respect to the service provided for free unless the Site intentionally or accidentally commits criminal activities.

Article 19 (Indemnification)
1. The Site shall be exempted from the obligation to provide the services in case the Site cannot provide the services due to natural disaster, war and other force majeure similar to this.
2. The Site shall be exempted from responsibility for any damage incurred because an infra communication service company interrupts the service or does not provide normal service.
3. The Site shall be exempted from the responsibility for any damage incurred due to inevitable reasons such as repair, replacement, regular maintenance and construction, etc.
4. The Site shall not be responsible for any damage incurred due to a user’s computer error, or insufficient provision of personal information and electronic mail address by the member.
5. The Site has no obligation to confirm or represent any opinion or information expressed by the services, and the Site does not oppose nor amend the opinion expressed by members or any other third party. The Site shall not be responsible for any benefits or damages occurred by relying on the information contained in the service.
6. The Site shall not be responsible for goods transaction or monetary transactions with the services between members or between members and the third parties, and the Site shall not be responsible for any benefits that members expect when using the services.
7. The Site shall not be responsible for any benefits that you expect in using the services, or damages occurring due to the materials obtained through the services, and the Site shall not guarantee the contents information, materials, and reliability of the facts posted by members on the service.
8. The Site shall not be responsible for any damages incurred by your intentional fault among damages occurring to you in using the services.
9. The Site shall not guarantee the accuracy, completeness and quality of the services provided by subscribers or related institutes other than services provided by the Site. Therefore, the Site shall not be responsible for any losses or damages occurring in using the services. Moreover, the Site shall not be obliged to compensate the psychological damage of users caused by other users while using the services.