RAS: the earlier seller-verification service
RAS stood for RealSeller Authentication Service. The archived Korean service page described a system intended to help people check a seller’s identity before a person-to-person transaction.
What the operator described
The page listed email, mobile-phone, bank-account, identity-document and face checks. It also described seller searches, access through the web and mobile applications, and an API for other websites and communities. Those were the operator’s descriptions of the service; the archive does not establish how reliably each check worked.
Identity checks and a purchase are different questions
Knowing who a seller is does not, by itself, establish an item’s condition, ownership or delivery. The earlier site made strong claims about the certainty of its verification. This historical summary does not endorse those claims or convert them into a guarantee for a present-day purchase.
The separate RAS address in 2022
A notice dated April 8, 2022 reported that the corporate website and RAS had been separated as part of a redesign beginning April 7. The company information remained on the main domain, while seller verification moved to ras.real-seller.com. This explains the distinct address in links from that period.
Why an old link can lead here
MetLife Korea’s Inclusion Plus page linked to the former RAS subdomain when checked on November 12, 2026. That link concerns the earlier service. It is not evidence of a relationship with, or endorsement of, the current RealSeller publication.
For related history, see the 2022 partner-channel change and the announced TheCheat collaboration. No identity documents or account details should be submitted to this historical page.
Historical sources
- Archived RAS service description · May 29, 2022
- MetLife Korea · Inclusion Plus, checked November 12, 2026
- Redesign and separate RAS site notice · April 8, 2022
Archive captures establish what was published, not that the operator’s performance claims were independently verified.