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Calendar 2026

10 events across 6 months — from COEX trade floors to blockchain week

10 events COEX epicenter Aug 11–21 peak window Free community track KBW flagship crypto week

Firing pattern — May through October

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Trade Expo

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Shaded zone = Aug peak window

Top picks

Open Source Summit Korea 2026 — Linux Foundation banner

Dev conf

Open Source Summit + MCP Dev Summit

Aug 11–14 · Seoul

Linux Foundation back-to-back: OSS Korea (Aug 11–12) then MCP Dev Summit Seoul (Aug 13–14). Four days, one registration window — highest-signal developer stretch of the year. ^[7] ^[8]

AI Summit Seoul 2026 — Agentic AI conference key visual

Enterprise

AI Summit Seoul & Expo

Aug 19–21 · COEX Grand Ballroom

9th edition. Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, AI+Robotics. COEX Grand Ballroom + Exhibition Hall B. Runs Aug 19–21, forming an 11-day developer super-week with OSS/MCP. [9]

Crypto / Web3

Korea Blockchain Week

Sep 29–Oct 1 · Walkerhill Hotels

Asia's flagship crypto event — 2,000+ attendees. Sep 29 is invite-only institutional summit; main conference Sep 30–Oct 1. Speakers: Arthur Hayes, Balaji Srinivasan, Jeff Yan (Hyperliquid). [11] ^[12]

Full schedule

May

May 6–8

AI Expo Korea Trade expo COEX Hall A

June

Jun 10–12

Smart Tech Korea Trade expo 500+ exhibitors Jun 17

Dev Korea #9 Community Free Jun 17–19

Metaverse Expo (MVEX) Trade expo ~50k visitors

July

Jul 22–24

IMID Korea Display Exhibition Industry COEX, Gangnam

August — peak window

Aug 11–12

Open Source Summit Korea Dev conf Linux Foundation Aug 13–14

MCP Dev Summit Seoul Dev conf Agentic AI / MCP Aug 19–21

AI Summit Seoul & Expo Enterprise COEX Grand Ballroom Aug 29

UbuCon Korea × MiniDebConf Community Free · MS Korea

September — October

Sep 29–Oct 1

Korea Blockchain Week Crypto 2,000+ attendees