Last updated: July 27, 2026
This page explains how 6 Figures Dream is written, how facts are checked before publication, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong. It exists because this site publishes numbers about money, and you deserve to know what standard those numbers are held to.
Who writes this site
Every article on this site is directed, reviewed, and approved by one person — me, Steve, a 40-something mechanical engineer in South Korea. There is no editorial staff and no outside contributors. I don’t hold any financial license or credential, and I say so plainly in every post.
I use AI tools as part of how I draft and double-check this site, the same way I use a calculator or a spreadsheet at work. What that never changes: every number is verified against a primary source before it runs, and nothing is published here that I haven’t read, edited, and put my name behind. The accounts, the decisions, and the responsibility are mine.
What I do have is twenty years of engineering habits: verify the measurement, distrust the round number, and write down what actually happened rather than what you hoped would happen. That’s the standard I try to apply here.
How facts are verified
Before any specific figure is published — an inflation rate, a dividend yield, an index return, a policy decision — it is checked against a primary source. Not a summary of a source. The source.
What counts as a primary source here:
- Central bank statements and minutes (for example, Federal Reserve releases)
- Government statistical agencies (labor, inflation, GDP, housing data)
- Company filings and official investor-relations releases
- Index providers’ and asset managers’ own published documentation
- Regulators’ published decisions and official notices
Where a number appears in an article, I try to link to the place it came from so you can check it yourself. If two sources disagree, the primary document wins. Numbers that are especially easy to get wrong — decimals, exact dates, and claims of the form “the first ever” or “the Nth consecutive” — get checked twice, because those are exactly the claims that spread when they’re false.
When something can’t be verified
If I can’t confirm a claim at its source, I delete it. I don’t soften it into “reportedly” or “some analysts say” and publish it anyway. If removing it means an article no longer works, the article doesn’t run that week.
I’d rather publish nothing than publish something wrong. On a site about money, a confident wrong number is worse than silence.
Corrections
I will get things wrong. When that happens:
- I correct the published article rather than quietly deleting it.
- Where the error was material — a wrong figure, a mischaracterized policy — the correction is noted rather than silently swapped in.
- If you spot an error, please tell me through the Contact page with the article and the specific claim. Corrections from readers are welcome, not unwelcome.
Independence
This site carries no affiliate links, no referral links, and no sponsored content. I don’t accept paid posts, paid link placements, or guest articles.
When I mention a specific fund or ETF, I link to the asset manager’s own official product page — not to a broker and not to a referral. I earn nothing whether you click or not.
The site does display advertising through Google AdSense. Those ads are served automatically by Google; advertisers have no involvement in, or advance knowledge of, what I write. Nothing in an article is influenced by which ads happen to appear beside it.
The numbers I publish about myself
The account balances, dividend figures, and contribution amounts on this site are my own real numbers, not illustrations. They’re converted at a fixed rate of 1,500 KRW to $1 so month-to-month comparisons stay consistent. Monthly recaps follow the same structure every time, including in months when the numbers go down.
I don’t publish my exact age, my employer, or details that identify my accounts. That’s a deliberate privacy line, not an attempt to seem more credentialed than I am.
What this site is not
Nothing published here is investment advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any security. I am not a financial advisor and I cannot give personalized guidance. Every reader’s tax situation, time horizon, and risk tolerance differ, and decisions about your money should involve a qualified professional in your own country.
Questions about this policy
If anything here is unclear, or you think the site has fallen short of it, tell me through the Contact page.