Code for Korea

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

Active

Since 2020

Seoul

Open source: Yes

Code for Korea, one of Korea's civic tech communties, is composed of Korean volun-teer citizens who came together to address social issues with digital technology. These issues encompass climate change, government open data, labor safety, social events, political donations, and more. Code for Korea was founded in February 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Around 17 citizens developed the “Public Mask” app, and more than 200 civic hackers helped sort out Covid-19 related public data. The community consists of volunteers with diverse interests in civic tech, including engineers, designers, journalists, lawyers, planners, and social activists, who collaborate to operate the com- munity and work on projects. Code for Korea hosts “Meet & Hack (hackathon)” approximately once every two months, both on-line and offline, allowing community members to share and collaborate on projects.