Doğukan Atar

Seoul, Korea KST

Doğukan Atar

I build the systems behind travel, housing, and communities for people coming to Korea. Currently CTO at Hoppers.

I came to Korea as an international student and kept running into the same problem: people arrive with ambition, but the basic stuff is still hard. Finding friends, finding a home, finding the right local context, and finding a way to belong.

So I started building around that. Korea Friends, Sogang Friends, Find Home Korea, Koho, and now Hoppers are all different versions of the same idea: make Korea easier to enter, live in, and build from.

At Hoppers, I maintain the tech layer behind housing and travel packages, internal tools, community operations, and the small details that make a physical experience feel smooth. My job is to keep the product close to the person using it.

Now

Building at Hoppers

Projects

Things I made before and around the work

Random Stuff

Other threads I care about

Proof

Some public traces

Notes

Things I should probably write about

How to build trust with international students in Korea
The hidden software inside housing and travel operations
What I learned building communities before products

Building something in Korea, travel, housing, or community?

Send me a short message with a clear ask.