What are earnings?

• Earnings refer to all income generated through POSTYPE, including ‘post earnings’ accumulated from selling posts or receiving sponsorships, ‘membership earnings’ paid through membership recurring sponsorship, ‘Request earnings’ generated from 1:1 work requests, and ‘CharacterTalk earnings’ paid from other users’ paid conversations when you’re selected as a CharacterTalk partner. These earnings are considered the creator’s income.

• Creator verification enables you to withdraw your earnings as cash by activating automatic withdrawal.
• Withdrawn earnings are subject to tax filing. Creators who continuously earn income are recommended to register a business.
• From February 1, 2020, earnings can only be withdrawn and can no longer be reused for post purchases or sponsorships.
  • Can’t I use my earnings for post purchases or sponsorships, or convert them to points?
• Earnings expire 5 years from the date they were paid. However, if you voluntarily delete your account or your account is deleted after 5 or more years of inactivity, your earnings will expire immediately and cannot be restored.

How to withdraw earnings

• To withdraw earnings, you must complete creator verification once.
• After creator verification is complete, you can activate automatic withdrawal under [Earnings] > [Withdrawal settings].
  • Please note that to safely process earnings transfers, you cannot change your automatic withdrawal settings between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (noon) on the 1st of every month, when automatic withdrawal requests are processed.
• If your total earnings are at least 10,000 KRW and automatic withdrawal is activated at 12:00 a.m. on the 1st of every month, a withdrawal will automatically be requested for the full amount of earnings accumulated up to the previous month.
• After the financial institution maintenance time ends, your withdrawal history is created between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (noon) on the 1st of every month. Once the automatic withdrawal request is complete, the details will appear under [Earnings] > [Withdrawal history] and your entire earnings balance will be deducted.
• If you change any earnings-related settings on your account before the withdrawal history has been fully created on the morning of the 1st, the withdrawal request may not be processed correctly. Please be careful.
• The amount requested for withdrawal will be deposited into the account you registered when completing individual creator verification, within business hours (10:00–19:00) on the 10th of the same month (or the previous business day if it falls on a holiday).
  • All earnings accumulated up to May 31: classified as May earnings, automatically tallied at 8:00 a.m. on June 1, and deposited on June 10
  • All earnings accumulated up to June 30: classified as June earnings, automatically tallied at 8:00 a.m. on July 1, and deposited on July 10

• Earnings cannot be withdrawn partially.
• You cannot change the withdrawal date for automatically requested earnings.
• When withdrawing earnings, a withdrawal fee is charged as a platform usage fee.
  • For more details, please refer to the withdrawal fee policy document.
• In addition, in accordance with tax law, 10% of the total fees are collected on your behalf as value-added tax (VAT).
• If a transfer cannot be made at the time the withdrawal history is created due to reasons such as account closure, an incorrect business registration number, change in creator type, or business closure, the issued tax invoice will be canceled and the requested earnings will be credited back to your account.
  • In case of withdrawal failure, please change your withdrawal account.
• You cannot request withdrawal of earnings after you delete your account.
• If you requested a withdrawal before deleting your account but the deposit cannot be completed due to reasons such as account closure, your withdrawal may fail. We therefore recommend deleting your account only after your earnings have been successfully deposited.