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Common questions
Is kaist.edu legit or a scam?
AboutUs doesn't label sites "legit" or "a scam": this page lists the dated registration, DNS, HTTPS, mail-authentication and safety checks we could verify, each with its source, so you can decide for yourself.
Who owns kaist.edu?
Nobody has completed AboutUs's owner verification for kaist.edu. That's true of most sites here — it isn't itself a warning sign.
Correct a description, link or other detail. Submissions are reviewed before publication.
3 of 4 safety checks passed (Oct 2, 2026).
Its address redirects to www.kaist.ac.kr, which answered over HTTPS
Kaist.edu
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a higher education and research institution based in South Korea, commonly referred to by its acronym. The site serves prospective students, current students, faculty, and the public, offering information on admissions, colleges, campus life, administration, and services. Its primary language is Korean.
Security headers— Add the HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options response headers.
AboutUs has not vetted this site. Everything below is what we could measure automatically. Anything you do on the site — paying, sharing personal details, downloading — is between you and the site, not AboutUs.
Current facts
Latest available measurements; dated entries retain their dates. These are measurements, not an endorsement of the site.
not yet retrieved
Registrar and registration date not retrieved yet — we retry on every view.
We withhold an authority number until independent evidence (global rank, link-graph presence) has accrued. The facts we do have about this site are shown below — we'd rather say “not enough signals yet” than invent a low score.
Safety evidence
No unexpired threat-feed result; name-similarity check available (recorded about 40 days ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded about 40 days ago). This is evidence coverage, not a probability that a website is safe.
No caution flags in the available scoring observations; this is not a complete safety assessment
Site history
Dated record — historical facts always carry their date.