OpenAI Codex Meetup Seoul: Codex, community demos, and our biggest room yet
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Want to feel what the night was like? From the talks to the networking and everything in between, here's a quick aftermovie of the OpenAI Codex Meetup 🎥.
On July 8, together with OpenAI and Hashed, we ran the OpenAI Codex Meetup in Seoul. Our tenth Dev Korea event.
Demand for this one broke every record we had. More than 2,500 people RSVP'd. The room holds a fraction of that, so we could only approve a small share of them, and turning away that many people is not a fun position to be in.
More than 250 people made it in. That makes it our biggest event ever by some distance, and the room felt it. ICML was in town that week, so alongside the usual Seoul crowd there were a lot of people who had flown in and were looking for somewhere to meet other builders.
The evening
Gabriel Chua opened with "Valuemaxxing with Codex", on getting real leverage out of the agent rather than treating it as autocomplete.
The timing was good. The GPT-5.6 family, Sol, Terra and Luna, had been in limited preview since late June, and general availability landed the day after our event. So the room was hearing about it roughly 24 hours ahead of the public launch, which is not something we can usually promise.
Won Park then joined Gabriel on stage for a fireside Q&A, and the questions kept coming until we had to cut it off for the break.
Community demos
After the break, five people from the community showed what they had been building with Codex. This is always the best argument for showing up in person.
The room
Food was a buffet this time rather than the usual pizza, and it went the way food goes at a 250 person event.
The OpenAI swag was the other story of the night. Water bottles and caps. The caps were gone almost immediately, which surprised nobody except us.
One note: the talks weren't recorded this time, so there's no video to link. If you missed it, this recap is what we have.
Huge thanks
This event wouldn't have happened without:
- OpenAI for bringing the team, the updates, and the swag
- Hashed for hosting 250+ people in their space
- Gabriel Chua and Won Park for the talk and the fireside
- Hamin Lee, Jaeyun Ha, Jineui Kim, Byungjun Kim, and Neel Somani for demoing what they had built
- The eight volunteers who kept a 250 person check-in moving: Aleksey, Bertijn, Brian, Nathaniel, Oscar, Rob, Sonali, and Suhyun
- And everyone who showed up and made it the biggest one yet
If you were one of the 2,000+ who didn't get a spot, sorry. We're working on it. The best way to hear about the next one early is our newsletter and Discord.
You can find every published Dev Korea talk on our talks page.
See you at the next one.
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