Sijin Jeon
About · Sijin Jeon, founder of SIREAL

Helping global AI and productivity products become everyday work habits in Korea.

I’m Sijin Jeon, founder of SIREAL. I help global productivity and AI products become repeatable work habits in Korea through local proof, community, education, and enterprise adoption. I started using Notion in May 2018. Since then I’ve run its Korean user community, written three books on it, and trained teams at companies, universities, and public institutions as a Notion Certified Consultant and Notion consulting partner. Since 2025 I’ve done the same work for AI products: organizing Cursor’s builder events in Seoul as a Cursor Ambassador and building Korean workflows with new agent tools. I don’t translate or run ads. I find the Korean work problem a product already solves, show the result, and teach it until teams make it part of how they work.

Proof in numbers

39,000+
members in the Korean Notion user community I’ve run since 2018
166 applicants · 27 teams
Cursor Hackathon Seoul vol.3 (June 2026)
3 books
on Notion, published 2019–2024 (a fourth, on Notion AI, ships Oct 2026)
10,000+ learners · 1,300+ hours
taught in lectures and workshops
500+ lectures · 4.88/5.0 · 8,800+ reviews
lectures delivered since 2018, average satisfaction, and learner reviews

Milestones

  1. 2026
    Oct 2026 · Notion AI

    Fourth book, Notion AI (J-Pub), ships October 15. It’s a hands-on guide to making Notion AI part of everyday team work.

    Sep 2026 · Aside

    Became Aside Ambassador (Korea), working with the Aside team on Korea GTM, content, and education and publishing real Korean work automations built with an AI agent browser.

    Sep 2026 · Notion

    Official Korean expert for Notion Setup Sessions. I run 1:1 setup coaching for new Korean users and teams.

    Aug 2026 · OpenAI-sponsored ToyThon

    Supported operations for ToyThon, a Physical-AI hackathon at Seoul AI Hub. I helped run the budget setup and onboarded participants onto OpenAI credits. Post-event survey: 4.89 CSAT, NPS 85 (62 responses).

    Jun 2026 · Cursor

    Organized Cursor Hackathon Seoul vol.3 with Seoul AI Hub. 166 applicants, 27 teams, and 90% of applicants were first-time hackathon participants. It turned interest in AI coding into people shipping products.

    Apr 2026 · Cursor

    Organized Cursor Eurekathon Seoul, a Cursor-sponsored builder event for developers and non-developers.

    Feb 2026 · Cursor

    Organized the first Cursor Hackathon Seoul. Demand outran seats, so we ran a selective application process.

    Jan 2026 · Notion

    Earned Notion Certified Admin and Notion Service Specialist.

  2. 2025
    Oct 2025 · Cursor

    Organized the second Cursor Seoul Meetup, “Cursor × Design × Collaboration,” built to bring designers into AI-assisted building.

    Jun 2025 · Cursor

    Organized the first Cursor Meetup Seoul at Hashed Lounge: user showcases, community voting, and talks from Korean teams using Cursor in production.

    Jun 2025 · Notion

    Published the third revised edition of my Notion guide, updated with Notion AI.

    Apr 2025 · Cursor

    Appointed Cursor Ambassador for Korea.

    2025 · Notion

    Became an official Notion consulting partner.

  3. 2024
    Oct 2024 · Notion

    Published Learning Notion with 20 Templates (Shift).

    Jan 2024 · Collaboration tools

    Published a practical guide to adopting collaboration tools at work (J-Pub).

  4. 2020–2023
    2022 · Notion

    Second revised edition of the Notion guide.

    Oct 2020 · SIREAL

    Founded SIREAL to deliver lectures, consulting, and content on modern work tools.

    Jun 2020 · Notion

    Became a Notion Certified Consultant and began turning Notion into working systems for companies and institutions.

  5. 2018–2019
    Dec 2019 · Notion

    Named Notion Official Ambassador.

    May 2019 · Notion

    Co-authored A New Way to Organize Work and Life: Notion (J-Pub), a Notion guidebook first published in 2019 and now in its 3rd revised edition.

    Feb 2019 · Notion

    Became a Notion Partner.

    2018 · Notion

    Started teaching Notion through independent lectures: 500+ lectures, 4.88/5.0 average satisfaction, and 8,800+ learner reviews since.

    May 2018 · Notion

    Started using Notion and began building the Korean Notion user community on Facebook and Naver Cafe, which has grown to 39,000+ members.

Considering Korea for your product?
I help product, growth, and community teams find the Korean use case, prove it locally, and turn early users into lasting team adoption.