It's in Korean, and the link is here.

It says "There is at least 1 GTUG in every country in Asia, but not in Korea. I hope someone take the initiative. Anyone who's interested on Google's technology can make it."

GTUG is a acronym of "Google Technology User Groups". GTUGs are "user groups for people who are interested in Google's developer technology", according to the official GTUGs web site. it's here.

And there's a slide explaining the GTUG I made for the first Seoul GTUG meet-up.

And this YouTube video interviewing the GTUG founders will help you to understand GTUG.

So, I applied as an organizer of Seoul GTUG right away. Why? maybe because I'm the type of guy who are desperate to take the initiative. :)

And then I've got the reply from Stephanie Liu (@stephliu), Who's in charge of managing the GTUGs around the world in Google. She asked if it's ok to co-organize the GTUG with "Brian Lee", who applied at the same time as me. So I talked with Brain, and said ok.

So the Seoul GTUG started on 11st, November. Brian and I've been preparing the first event for a month, and finally announce it to open on 19th December.

We had the event at Google Korea office. Google employees helped as so kindly to managing the event. I appreciate it so much.

The first event was very active and energetic. over 90 people applied, and 64 people attended. I could feel that many developers on Korea were eager to this kind of communities. There were not many developer communities in Korea so far, and I think it'll be good if this Seoul GTUG could be a game changer of developer environment in Korea.

Though the subjects are too widely scoped and some people felt that there was no specific point on the event, I think it's a good start. We'll take the feed back and try to make the better event next time.

Here's some pictures of the event.