The Instruct.KR 2025 December Meetup, themed "Agents," is a one-day event designed for AI researchers, engineers, and product teams in South Korea. Hosted by the Instruct.KR community, including Sigrid Jin, Jeonghwan Park, Heyajin Andrew Kim, Shinhyeok Hwang, and Johnny Jung, alongside 517 others, the meetup is scheduled for Saturday, December 20, 2025, from 13:00 to 19:00 KST. The venue for the event is World Space Seoul, located at 1F, 28 Samil-daero 28-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

The event's core focus is AI Agents, specifically exploring systems that can reason, plan, and utilize tools to achieve complex objectives, moving beyond simple text generation. The program is structured into three main areas: a 1F Main Stage for presentations, a 3F Booths & Poster Zone for networking and demonstrations, and a B1 Hackathon for hands-on development.

The 1F Main Stage features two primary blocks: a Research Part and an Application Part, each presenting 20-30 minute talks and fireside chats. Speakers and their topics include:

• Kim Dong-gyu (NomaDamas / @Jeffrey Kim): Insights from winning 1st place in the Claude Hackathon with the AutoRAG team, focusing on "vibe coding" and open-source development.
• Byun Hyeong-ho (NotoLab / @Noto): A comparison of LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) versus full fine-tuning, referencing the September 2025 paper 'Lora Without Regret' and information-theoretic approaches from Meta's 'Physics of Language Models'.
• Han Seung-yoon (KAIST / @seungyoonee): Introduction of Time-Specifier Model Merging (TSM) to mitigate catastrophic forgetting when fine-tuning models with time-constrained query datasets.
• Jeong Yi-tae (XCENA / @Yitae Jeong): Analysis of Knowledge Graph (KG) construction methods for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) systems, drawing from CDL25' trends and SEOCHO's experience.
• Lee Kyung-joo (D.LAB): A workflow and prompting methodology to improve Gemini 2.5 Pro's performance on information Olympiad problems from 5 to 100 points.
• Kim Min-jun (KAIST): The journey of KORMo, a Korean open-source language model trained from scratch.
• Lee Kyung-rok (TeddyNote / @teddy): Exploration of LangGraph V1.0's key features for AI Agent development, including Middleware, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), Dynamic Prompting, Context Engineering, and Multi-Agent systems.
• Kim Bo-gyeom (LablUp / @gyeom): A junior developer's experience collaborating with Agents, emphasizing the importance of effective typing for generating high-quality context and creating human- and agent-understandable Python codebases.
• Kim Na-yeon & Eo Tae-gyeong (Kakao Kanana Team): Sharing pre-training and post-training know-how for Kanana-2, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model trained from scratch.
• Shim Dae-yeol (OpenAI): Development insights for various agent workflows leveraging OpenAI's recently released GPT 5.1 codex-max:xhigh based on Codex CLI.
• Yoon Ju-woon (Sionic AI): Live demonstration of Swifap, Sionic Storm platform's DSL (Domain-Specific Language) and backend engine for automated agent workflow generation.

The B1 Hackathon, sponsored by Sionic AI, challenges participants to build AI Agent ideas using Sionic AI's STORM Parse (document parsing engine) and STORM Solution (agent design platform). Prizes of 500,000 KRW, 300,000 KRW, and 200,000 KRW are awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively. Team formation is facilitated through the Instruct.KR Discord channel.

The 3F Booths & Poster Zone offers networking opportunities with community and startup booths, featuring a "demo bell" for 5-minute live showcases. A dedicated space for research posters related to AI, LLM, RAG, and agents will include guided discussion sessions.

Sponsors for the event include World Foundation as the venue sponsor, a non-profit organization co-founded by Sam Altman focused on providing identity, finance, and community in an AI-transformed society. Sionic AI is the hackathon sponsor, promoting its STORM Platform for enterprise AI operations, known for its parsing engine and optimized RAG pipelines. YozmIT, Korea's largest IT magazine, serves as the media sponsor.

The event aims to foster a dynamic environment for sharing knowledge, demonstrating practical applications, and driving innovation within the Korean AI community.