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A Micro Server not returne...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"naver-cloud-micro","provider":"NAVER Cloud Platform Micro Server","url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent","category":"vps (hosted, South Korea)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"[translated] 'One Micro Server can be created per person. Free use for one year from the moment payment information is registered. A Micro Server not returned when the free period ends is billed automatically. However, this is provided only when the country of residence is Korea.'","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"[translated] One year of a Micro Server, one per person. No traffic allowance is stated for it on the page. The separate new-signup credit is '100,000 won of discount credit, valid for 3 months'.; ingress: tcp+udp","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent"},"interface":["rest","cli","ssh"],"interface_detail":"[translated] The console creates the server; the platform documents an API and CLI for its services.","tooling":"console and API (the platform ships an OpenAPI and CLI); WireGuard would run in the guest","chaining":"Unreachable, so it chains with nothing.","limits":[],"limits_note":"","binding":"none","binding_note":"The account is refused before any quota is reached: a Korean residence is the first constraint and no byte allowance matters behind it.","identity_cost":{"kind":"national-id","detail":"[translated] 'However, this is provided only when the country of residence is Korea.' The page adds: 'If you register payment information after signing up, you can create a Micro Server', so a payment method is a second gate behind the residence one. The 200,000 won Green Rookie credit goes further and requires an email at a partner Korean school or university.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"The free server is billed automatically if not returned at the end of the year; the discount credit expires after three months and cannot be applied to products that already have a free period.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The residence restriction is a vendor sentence on the credit-event page read on 2026-10-23. What would change the verdict is a Korean residence, which the client does not have; nothing measurable on the network side would.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"[translated] 'One Micro Server can be created per person', 'free use for one year from the moment payment information is registered', 'However, this is provided only when the country of residence is Korea.'"},{"url":"https://www.ncloud.com/main/creditEvent","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"[translated] 'We give new customers 100,000 won of discount credit applicable to payment for all services (valid for 3 months)', claimable only after 'registering a payment method'."}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"KRW 0 for one year for a Korean resident; billed after that","notes":"A free Korean VPS for a year with no card charge would be the answer to Korean question, and the country clause closes it. The page also carries a 300-man won credit promotion on a separate micro site, which is a trial credit requiring a payment method, not a free tier. Country: South Korea. The Green Rookie route needs a partner-institution email address, which is the same wall in a different shape.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"A root Korean guest would run WireGuard in the guest; nothing is issued by NAVER. Moot: the account cannot be opened from outside Korea.","ingress":"tcp+udp","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"[translated] One year of a Micro Server, one per person. No traffic allowance is stated for it on the page. The separate new-signup credit is '100,000 won of discount credit, valid for 3 months'.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"The guest's Korean address would carry the traffic."}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"KRW","usd":0,"fx_date":"2026-10-24","parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}