Prohibited & Restricted Activities

Prohibited

• Transporting travelers by car or motorcycle
• Bicycle tours, hiking, water sports, climbing and other high-risk sports
• Drinking-centered or nightlife-drinking plans
• Visiting accommodation or private homes
• Minors participating alone
• Sexual or dating-purpose activities
• Illegal activities of any kind
• Unlicensed professional services (medical, legal, financial advice, etc.)
• Professional tourist-site or history commentary
• Planning a traveler's full itinerary
• Selling packages that bundle transport, accommodation or admission tickets
• Cash payment or any payment outside the platform

Restricted (case-by-case approval)

These need separate operator approval and a risk notice before they can be offered: cooking together, activities involving pets, light exercise, activities where some drinking is incidental, photo shoots, beauty treatments, and any activity involving food allergies.

Allowed from day one

Cafés and coffee conversations, walks in public places, shopping streets, photography, art and exhibitions, music and record shops, reading and creative hobbies, fashion and beauty-product browsing, public events, and language & culture exchange.

Why the guiding boundary exists (관광진흥법)

A NADRI host shares their own interests and the everyday places they actually go. A host does not act as a licensed tourist guide. Specifically, hosts do not provide: guide-interpretation for foreign tourists of the kind that requires a 관광통역안내사 licence under article 38 of the Tourism Promotion Act; professional commentary on tourist sites, monuments or history; itinerary design for a whole trip; transport of any kind; or packages bundling transport, accommodation or admission tickets, which is the business of a registered travel agency under article 4 of the same Act.

This boundary is a legal-compliance requirement, not a style preference or a matter of tone. Paid guide-interpretation of foreign tourists without the licence, and selling travel arrangements without registering as a travel agency, are offences under the Tourism Promotion Act — for the host personally as well as for the platform. A host who crosses this line is not being informal; they are taking on a legal risk NADRI cannot cover, and listings or profiles that read as guided tours are removed.

Whether a specific interest-based meeting falls inside or outside the licensed-guide and travel-agency definitions has not been settled by counsel, and the wording above may tighten once it is. Until then hosts should keep well clear of the line rather than test it. [Legal review required]