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중앙일보

joongang.co.kr

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news site중앙일보중앙일보(The JoongAng)는 정치, 경제, 사회, 국제, 외교안보, 문화, 스포츠 등 각 분야의 현장과 세상에 가려진 사실을 발굴해 정확한 뉴스와 깊이 있는 분석으로 독자들에게 전달합니다.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withjQuery12 technologies foundTrust signals3 of 7 foundDomain registered 31 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

중앙일보 (joongang.co.kr) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with jQuery; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #6,763 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #13,384

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,763list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#13,384list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, jQuery UI and Swiper.

  • jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 217
    <script src="https://assets.joongang.co.kr/js/lib/jquery-3.6.0.min.js">
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  • jQuery UIJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 218
    <script src="https://assets.joongang.co.kr/js/lib/jquery-ui-1.12.1.min.js">
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  • SwiperJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 228
    <script src="https://assets.joongang.co.kr/jsn/jaSwiperAutoload.js?v=202610141218">
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Everything else it uses (9)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered20 Feb 1995, 31 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsPhone on the home pagePartly
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 6251Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    주소 : 서울특별시 마포구 상암산로 48-6 (우) 03909 전화 : 02-•••-••14 등록번호 : 서울 아 01013 등록일자 : 20••.•1.2 발행인·편집인 : 박장희
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsPhone on the home pagePartly
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 6251Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    주소 : 서울특별시 마포구 상암산로 48-6 (우) 03909 전화 : 02-•••-••14 등록번호 : 서울 아 01013 등록일자 : 20••.•1.2 발행인·편집인 : 박장희
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  • Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google Ad ManagerNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered20 Feb 1995, 31 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings1 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own words중앙일보중앙일보(The JoongAng)는 정치, 경제, 사회, 국제, 외교안보, 문화, 스포츠 등 각 분야의 현장과 세상에 가려진 사실을 발굴해 정확한 뉴스와 깊이 있는 분석으로 독자들에게 전달합니다.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q483903: The Joong-ang Ilbo, newspaper
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 672
<a href="https://www.joongang.co.kr/newsletter">뉴스레터</a>
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Who is behind it

  • WikidataThe Joong-ang Ilbo

Wikidata: Based in South Korea; founded by Lee Byung-chul.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q483903: The Joong-ang Ilbo
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of this item. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended and 21 more to stay away.
  • AI training: names Google-Extended and Claude-Web with rules for some pages.
  • AI assistants: asks Google-CloudVertexBot, meta-externalfetcher and DuckAssistBot to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 18
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 22
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 24
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 26
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 28
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 30
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 31
User-agent: Ai2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 32
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 34
User-agent: Omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: Omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 51
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 55
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 60
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 61
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 16
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 25
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 57
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 1
User-agent: Google-Extended
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 10
User-agent: Claude-Web
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Site name
중앙일보
Language
Korean (ko)
What it tells search engines
WebSite

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

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Score breakdown

Site Score

89 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

89OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 31 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · no protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5site name in another script than its address: couldn’t check · describes itself · tells search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 1995; first archived in 1996.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 31 of 31 years · see the first capture

  1. 1996: captured
  2. 1997: captured
  3. 1998: captured
  4. 1999: captured
  5. 2000: captured
  6. 2001: captured
  7. 2002: captured
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  20. 2015: captured
  21. 2016: captured
  22. 2017: captured
  23. 2018: captured
  24. 2019: captured
  25. 2020: captured
  26. 2021: captured
  27. 2022: captured
  28. 2023: captured
  29. 2024: captured
  30. 2025: captured
  31. 2026: captured
Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

925 checks on 17 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Quick look

Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

All the evidence →

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Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#6,763list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#13,384list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
jQuery, jQuery UI, Swiper

And 9 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsPartly
  • Company detailsNot found
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactNot found

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

Every signal with its source →

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How has it changed? →
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How does it add up?

89OF 100

Strong trust signals. An open formula (v1.1): every point comes from a finding above. AI traces carry no weight.

TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about joongang.co.kr

What is joongang.co.kr?

중앙일보 describes itself: “중앙일보(The JoongAng)는 정치, 경제, 사회, 국제, 외교안보, 문화, 스포츠 등 각 분야의 현장과 세상에 가려진 사실을 발굴해 정확한 뉴스와 깊이 있는 분석으로 독자들에게 전달합니다.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is joongang.co.kr?

Its domain was registered on 20 Feb 1995, 31 years ago. See the evidence

What is joongang.co.kr built with?

It is built with jQuery; we found 12 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is joongang.co.kr?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was joongang.co.kr made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind joongang.co.kr?

Wikidata names The Joong-ang Ilbo. See the evidence

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 17 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

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  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
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