about hackathon korea

what this is

Hackathon Korea is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Korea and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one, and it browses by 7 city hubs.

Right now there are 8 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Korean hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Korea, whether the listing calls it a hackathon (해커톤 in Korean). Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• Korea only. Korean is spoken nowhere else at scale, so the risk is online listings from elsewhere in Asia that accept Korean teams. An event is accepted when a Korean venue, a .kr link, the Asia/Seoul timezone, a Korean university or company, or a five-digit postcode confirms it.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify.
• Online events need a Korean signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a local link, a local timezone, or Korea-only eligibility rules.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to the local format (2026년 9월 26일), prices to won, written ₩2,500,000 with no minor unit as ko-KR does, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser. Titles stay exactly as the organiser wrote them. Both scripts are read — 해커톤 and hackathon — and the search box matches either; hub names are romanised (Seoul, Busan) with the Hangul folded onto them.

how the city hubs work

Seven hub cities — Seoul, Busan, Daejeon, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju and Pangyo — plus the districts and commuter towns around them. Each hub covers the area around it rather than the city limits alone, so events in Gangnam, Bundang, Songdo or at KAIST all show up under their nearest hub. Ulsan, Suwon, Sejong, Jeju, Cheongju and Jeonju keep their own name and show under all events. The kinds of event you will find — university and 연합 hackathons (KAIST, SNU, POSTECH, Yonsei), chaebol and bank challenges, public-data events, contest-board competitions on teca and all-con, and game jams — are listed on the guide page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.