Affiliate links and ads
Mun is free to use. Some buttons in Mun lead to travel services run by other companies, such as an eSIM, a tour, an attraction ticket or a place to stay. If you buy through one of them, the company pays Mun a commission. The price you pay is the same, and you never have to use them.
How you can tell
Every button or link that can earn Mun a commission has the label “Ad” right next to it (광고 in Korean, 広告 in Japanese, 广告 or 廣告 in Chinese). In the app these appear in two kinds of place: in a box of their own after your plan and next to the lodging choice, and as a small “See tickets” or “See tours” button directly under a few stops for which KKday sells a ticket or tour (a tower, a cable car, a theme park). Those stop buttons do sit next to the stops, so each one carries its own “Ad” label, and the label opens this page. The stop itself, its place in the plan and which places are chosen do not depend on them. The website's public pages load no script that changes your links.
A button that is only a plain search or link and earns Mun nothing carries no “Ad” label. It then says “Search”, not “Book”, and opens the partner's search results rather than a booking page. The Trip.com stay buttons follow the same rule: while their Trip.com affiliate link is active they show “Ad” by themselves, and if that link is ever switched off they become plain links and the label goes with it.
Plans don't depend on commissions
Which places and which lodging Mun suggests is decided without any commission information, from your preferences and from Mun's opening-hours checks where official records exist. A partner can't pay to be in a plan, and an offer never changes one.
Who Mun works with
- Travelpayouts (Go Travel Un Limited, Hong Kong): an affiliate network. Mun takes part in several travel programs through it, for example the eSIM providers Airalo, Saily and Yesim, Klook (tours and activities) and Agoda (stays). Mun's KKday buttons go through it too (next item). Booking.com earns Mun nothing: a Booking.com stay button appears only as a plain, unlabelled link when no Trip.com link is available for that stay.
- KKday: tours, activities and attraction tickets, sold on kkday.com. The route of Mun's KKday buttons: your tap opens an address on Mun's server, which sends you on to a Travelpayouts tracking link (
tp.media) and from there to kkday.com. Only if that Travelpayouts link is not available does Mun use its own KKday partner ID instead. - Trip.com (Trip.com Travel Singapore Pte. Ltd.): Trip.com's own affiliate program (Trip.com Affiliate Platform), not Travelpayouts. Mun's Trip.com stay buttons, the hotel button on a saved trip and the stay-search button, open an ordinary trip.com address that carries Mun's partner ID and which button you used. When you book through it, Trip.com pays Mun a commission.
Which of these you actually see depends on what Mun has switched on at the time. This page is updated when the list changes.
What partners learn
Mun does not send your name, email, account or trip to any partner. When you tap a button, Mun counts one click (which offer and where the button was, nothing about you) and sends you on. A tag that tells the partner the visit came from Mun goes along, and so do the city and dates of your trip when the link is a search. For the buttons that go through Travelpayouts, your browser then also contacts Travelpayouts' tracking address, so Travelpayouts (and after it the partner) receives your IP address and browser details and may set cookies to credit a booking. After that, their own privacy policies apply. The Trip.com stay buttons do not go through Travelpayouts: your browser goes straight to trip.com, and besides the city and dates of a search, the address carries only Mun's partner ID and which button you used. No name, email, account or trip details. Trip.com receives your IP address and browser details like any site you visit and may set cookies to credit a booking to Mun; Trip.com's own privacy policy applies to that.
No Travelpayouts script on the website
Mun's public pages used to be able to load a Travelpayouts script (Drive) after a cookie choice. It shows booking links and can turn ordinary links into affiliate links, and those links carry no “Ad” label, which does not fit the rule above. So it is switched off: no page of Mun loads it, nothing is sent to Travelpayouts when you just read a page, and no cookie banner is shown because there is nothing to choose. If Mun ever switches it on again, it will be only after you accept it, and this page and Privacy will say so first. The planner app and shared trip pages never loaded it.