This journal is a peer reviewed, open access (free submission and free access) journal where Korean Society of Acute Care Surgery pays for the publishing costs incurred by the journal. Authors do not have to pay any Article Processing Charge or Open Access Publication Fee.

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/): for non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article. 

Author Rights

For open access publishing, this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to Journal of Acute Care Surgery, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.