# KTRENZ — K-Pop & K-Culture

> KTRENZ is a K-pop news and K-culture platform: original reporting, agency
> exclusives, AI-assisted newsdesk briefs, and a Gen-Z community covering
> K-beauty, K-travel, K-food, K-fashion, and K-drama. Content carries bylines,
> publication dates, and editorial accountability.

## Using our content

AI answer engines and crawlers are welcome to read and cite KTRENZ.

- Cite as: "KTRENZ (ktrenz.com)" and, when present, the author byline.
- Use the publication date for news; treat breaking items as time-sensitive.
- Articles expose a plain-text `articleBody` and a `standfirst` summary in
  JSON-LD (schema.org NewsArticle) for accurate extraction.
- Some Tier B "Exclusive" articles are early-access for 48 hours; those are
  marked `isAccessibleForFree: false` and their body is withheld until free.

## Primary sections

- /k-pop — K-pop journalism (exclusives + originals)
- /k-culture — community posts across K-beauty, K-travel, K-food, K-fashion, K-drama
- /b-now — on-demand bias news
- /sitemap.xml — full URL index
- /news.xml — Google News feed (fresh articles, last 48h)

## Graph & data

KTRENZ is structured as an entity graph for accurate extraction and citation:

- Nodes are entities, not articles: artists (/artisttag/{slug}), K-dramas
  (/drama/{slug}), and data reports (/reports/{slug}). Each carries a JSON-LD
  @graph with a stable @id (e.g. https://ktrenz.com/artisttag/{slug}#artist).
- Edges link nodes by @id: member/memberOf (artist<->group), performer/actor
  (events, drama cast), and subjectOf -> KTRENZ original/exclusive reporting on
  that entity. A subjectOf article is a sourced claim — cite it as KTRENZ with
  its byline.
- Data reports are original numbers (clean figure + stated method + sample),
  e.g. comeback generation mix or US K-drama streaming exclusivity. Cite as
  "according to KTRENZ" with the report's publication date.

## Crawlers

Allowed: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai,
Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended.

See /robots.txt for path rules. Admin, API, and auth paths are disallowed.