1. Name of Journal

The official journal title is Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater. Abbreviated title is J. Korean Soc. Water Wastewater.

2. Website

The URL address of official website is https://www.ksww.or.kr

Aims and scope statements: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub4_2.html?cID=42
Readership: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub4_1.html?cID=41
Types of manuscripts: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub2_1.html?cID=21
Authorship criteria: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub2_1.html?cID=21

ISSN: pISSN 1225-7672, eISSN 2287-822X

3. Publishing Schedule

KSWW is published bimonthly, with issues released on the 15th of February, April, June, August, October, December each year. Any supplementary or special issues may be published.

4. Archiving

Papers published in KSWW are archived not only in the KoreaScholar database (https://db.koreascholar.com/) contracted with the Korean Society of Water and Wastewater but also in the databases operated by the Korean government, including the Korea Citation Index (https://kci.go.kr). To prepare for the event of journal closure or loss of online databases, printed copies of all issues of KSWW are archived at the National Library of Korea (https://www.nl.go.kr) and the National Assembly Library (https://www.nanet.go.kr).

5. Copyright

All published papers will become the permanent property of the Korean Society of Water and Wastewater and must not be published elsewhere without written permission from the Society. A copyright transfer agreement form should be submitted electronically on the submission website. This form is identical to the Creative Commons (Attribution-Noncommercial) at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

6. Licenses

Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited for non-commercial purposes.

7. Publication Ethics and Related Editorial Policies

KSWW adheres to the Guideline on Good Publication Practice of COPE (https://publicationethics.org) for publication ethics. The journal has established guidelines and policies delineating the research and publication ethics that authors, reviewers, and editors must adhere to.

- Research ethics: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub2_1.html?cID=21

- Research Ethics Committee: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub4_4.html?cID=44

- Editorial policy: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub5_1.html?cID=51

8. Peer Review

KSWW is equipped with an online submission and review system, and operates a double-blind review system to ensure fair evaluation and judgment of submitted manuscripts.

- Review ethics: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub3_2.html?cID=32

- Review policy: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub5_2.html?cID=52

- Review process: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub3_1.html?cID=31

9. Access

Papers published in KSWW can be accessed and downloaded in PDF format from the journal's website without requiring membership. However, submitting papers to KJEB requires registration on the online submission system (http://submission.ksww.or.kr/)

10. Ownership and Management

Ownership: KSWW is owned by the publisher, Korea Society of Water and Wastewater (https://www.ksww.or.kr).
Management: KSWW is managed by the editorial board, article production company, and website management company.

- Editorial board: Overall management of journal publication/review process management/oversight of research ethics, readability, and academic quality assessment of papers.
- Publishing company: Editing of paper layout/PDF file production/journal printing.
- KoreaScholar: Website management and development/JATS XML production

11. Advisory Body

The advisory body is the editorial board of KSWW.

Editorial board: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub4_3.html?cID=43

12. Editorial Team/Contact Information

- Editorial team: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub4_3.html?cID=43
- Contact information: http://www.jksww.or.kr/sub/sub4_6.html?cID=46

13. Author Fees

All published papers incur page charges at the following rate:

Regular Papers	Pages 1-6 ... 60,000 KRW	Pages 7-15 ... 20,000 KRW per page
Urgent Papers	Pages 1-6 ... 300,000 KRW	Pages 7-15 ... 40,000 KRW per page

14. Advertising

The KSWW allows limited advertising from vendors selling experimental equipment and tools, national research institutions, research centers, and similar entities that sponsor the society. Advertisements are minimally displayed on the back page of the journal's print edition or at the bottom of the table of contents sent to members via email. Promotional materials for academic conferences, seminars, educational programs, and similar events promoting scholarly communications and education may be displayed on banners on the journal and society websites. Advertisements must not be related to papers published in KSWW and should not involve conflicts of interest. The final decision on advertising approval is made by the society's board of directors.

15. Advertising

Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater does not accept advertisements.

16. Direct Marketing

Full-text PDF files are also available at the official website (https://jksww.or.kr). To order a subscription to Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater (printed), please contact our editorial office. The Korea Society of Water and Wastewater will send the journal to member institutions freely and to member individuals with the annual subscription fee of 50,000 Korean Won.