This came out of counting 36 ebooks and 449 case studies. There was no shortage of material being sold — and very little that recorded the requirements from the official documents. So we opened them.
⚠️ Everything here was checked on 2026-08-16. Platform rules change without notice. Check them yourself before you sign up or pay.
1. First, can an ad go there at all?
Google's official AdSense eligibility page contains this line:
You must be able to access the HTML source code of the site you submit for AdSense.
— AdSense eligibility requirements (checked 2026-08-16)
That single line decides your platform. A service that will not let you insert HTML cannot carry AdSense. So "where should I start a blog" is not a matter of taste — it is a question about the revenue structure.
- 1
Can the platform you want accept HTML or scripts?
If not, AdSense is impossible there. You need a different revenue source.
- 2
If yes — the AdSense route
Age requirement, your own content, policy compliance. There is a review.
- 3
If no — the platform's own ad programme
On Naver Blog, that slot is filled by Naver AdPost.
Official AdSense requirements (checked 2026-08-16)
| Item | What the document says |
|---|---|
| Age | 19 or older on the Korean-language page; check your own locale |
| Content | Original, high quality, your own |
| Technical | Access to the site's HTML source code |
| Policy | Complies with AdSense programme policies |
⚠️ The same document says a minor can ask a parent or guardian to sign up with an adult account, and that earnings are then paid to that adult.
2. Naver AdPost does not publish its thresholds
The official AdPost page says only this:
For Naver's own media (blogs, bands and so on), media registration becomes possible when conditions such as operating period and number of posts are suitable as an advertising medium.
— Naver AdPost (checked 2026-08-16)
It names the criteria and not the numbers.
That matters. YouTube publishes "8,000 hours over 365 days". Naver does not publish an equivalent. So any article stating "you need N days and M posts" is an estimate with no basis in the official document. It may well be right; there is no way to check.
3. Find out when money actually arrives
The defining property of ad revenue is that you get exactly zero until you clear the bar. We opened the official payout-threshold table.
| Stage | USD | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Tax info | $0 | You can submit tax information from the start |
| Verification | $10 | Identity and address must be verified |
| Payment method | $10 | Only now can you choose how to be paid |
| Payment | $100 | Money only leaves Google at this point |
— AdSense payment thresholds (checked 2026-08-16)
🔴 The Korean won is not in that table. It lists 28 currencies — USD, JPY, EUR and others — with no KRW row. As we read it, Korean publishers fall under USD, with a $100 payment threshold.
So until the first $100, a balance accumulates and nothing reaches your bank. Start without knowing that and, two or three months in, you will conclude you are doing something wrong. You are not. That is the structure.
The most honest number we found in this market
A review on one of the sales pages we surveyed contained this line — and it was a satisfied review:
From October 2020 to April my AdPost earnings totalled about ₩50,000…
About ₩50,000 across roughly seven months — on the order of ₩7,000 a month was this person's starting line. Because it was written by a buyer rather than a seller, it shows the size of the starting line more honestly than anything else we read.
⚠️ The sample is one person, one line. It does not mean "this is typical".
4. Where this works, and how you get paid
| Check | Google AdSense | Naver AdPost |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | Many. 28 payout currencies listed (no KRW) | Tied to a Naver account |
| Payment | $100 payment threshold · $10 verification threshold | We could not verify this |
| Tax / MoR | MoR does not apply — this is ad revenue sharing, not a sale of goods. Tax-info threshold $0 | We could not verify this |
| Minimum requirements | 19+ · HTML source access · policy compliance | Not published ("operating period, number of posts, etc.") |
⚠️ We left the blanks blank. AdPost's payout threshold and tax handling were not findable on the official pages. "We could not verify this" beats a confident guess.
⚠️ If you add affiliate links, a separate disclosure duty attaches. Content you were compensated for must say so. That is advertising regulation, not a platform rule.
A three-minute check before buying a course or ebook
We read one sales page closely during this survey. The checks we used are now yours. This is not "don't buy" — it is "know what you are buying".
Step 1. ① Has the "before" price ever been charged?
1 minute
Some pages publish their own price history. If it only ever rose — 29,000 → 39,000 → 59,000 → 97,000 — then the list price the discount is measured against was never a selling price.
Step 2. ② Who valued the bonuses?
30 seconds
Add up the figures attached to each bonus and you get the number in the headline. The person who assigned those figures is the person selling them. That is not a market price.
Step 3. ③ Do the refund terms agree with each other?
1 minute
If "100% refund if unsatisfied" and "no refund once the file is sent" are on the same page, and delivery is automatic, both cannot be true.
Step 4. ④ Are there unsubstantiated figures in the contents?
30 seconds
A chapter titled "why ₩10M a month is possible in two months" is a forward-looking earnings claim with no period, conditions or sample. The substantiation may be inside — you cannot tell from the contents page.
The clause that actually protects you
Even where a seller writes "no refunds after delivery", the platform's base rule sits above it:
Where the content or service received differs from what was displayed or advertised, or differs from the contract, cancellation and refund are available within three months of receiving it, or within 30 days of learning of the discrepancy.
— Marketplace cancellation and refund policy (checked 2026-08-16)
"It was worse than I expected" is not covered. The test is differs from the advertising. Which is why the practical defence is to screenshot the sales page before you buy.
⚠️ What this piece does not tell you
✓ What we verified
- Official AdSense eligibility and payout thresholds (2026-08-16)
- That AdPost does not publish its numeric thresholds
- Where the sentences on one sales page contradict each other
✕ What we did not
- Which ebook is good — we did not buy them
- What a blog can earn — that is not in our sample
- How many days or posts AdPost approval needs — it is not published
- That following this order produces income — there is no such guarantee
Do this today
Three things. All of them fit in one day.
- Check whether your platform lets you insert HTML or scripts. Open the settings screen; five minutes answers it. This is first because everything downstream changes depending on the answer
- Read the AdSense eligibility page yourself rather than someone's summary of it
- Make your first target $10, not "income". $10 is the verification threshold. Reaching it produces a visible next step — identity verification. $100 comes after that
⚠️ And the important one: remember why every number here carries a date. This is as of 2026-08-16. If you are reading it later, check again.
Next
We will re-verify these requirements in mid-September 2026. If anything has changed we will update this piece and record what changed and when.