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Information on substances harmful to minors

Kakao does not permit information that promotes, justifies, or depicts in an excessive or explicit manner the use of substances harmful to minors (including alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, and other substances harmful to minors, as well as items harmful to minors), which can seriously harm the health and safety of children and adolescents.

However, scenes that simply depict normal adult activities, such as drinking or smoking as part of everyday life, are allowed. This policy is intended to restrict excessive, repetitive depictions or content that glorifies or encourages such activities in service areas accessible to minors.

If Kakao identifies the distribution of such content in areas accessible to all KakaoTalk users through reports or other means, it may take appropriate measures based on the severity, form, and content of the information. These measures may include restricting access to certain KakaoTalk services, limiting search results or content exposure, or restricting the use of chat rooms.

Examples of prohibited content are as follows.

• Alcohol and smoking
  • - Content that glorifies or justifies underage drinking or smoking
  • - Content that persistently or repeatedly depicts adult drinking or smoking scenes, thereby encouraging or glorifying substance use among minors
  • - Content that excessively or repeatedly depicts behaviors resulting from alcohol addiction or intoxication
  • - Content that explicitly emphasizes or glorifies the pleasure or hallucinatory effects of drinking or smoking
• Misuse of legal drugs and harmful substances
  • - Content that justifies or encourages misuse of legal drugs, medications, or other harmful substances (e.g., glue, butane gas, nitrous oxide)
  • - Content that justifies or glorifies deviant behavior (e.g., violence, sexual exploitation, crime) resulting from substances harmful to youth
• Illegal drugs and narcotics
  • - Content that specifically describes methods of manufacturing or using narcotics and psychotropic substances (e.g., scenes of injection, actual inhalation or ingestion) or their effects, thereby encouraging or facilitating their use
  • - Content that depicts violence, sexual acts, or crimes committed while under the influence of harmful drugs for minors or in a hallucinatory state
  • - Content that explicitly shows the use of harmful drugs for minors as a means to commit crimes
• Risk of imitation
  • - Content that realistically and specifically depicts the use of harmful drugs for minors, thereby encouraging imitation or providing motivation