Korean office documents (.hwp / .hwpx) are everywhere in Korean government, enterprise, and legal workflows. Until now, Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor couldn't read them natively — a real blocker for anyone building AI systems for Korean organizations. We (TreeSoop) just released hwp-mcp, an open source MCP server that fixes this. 📚 Full writeup: https://treesoop.com/blog/hwp-mcp-korean-document-ai-claude-2026 https://github.com/treesoop/hwp-mcp hwp-mcp exposes these tools via the Model Context Protocol: Extract text from .hwp / .hwpx files Parse tables into structured data Pull out embedded images Find-and-replace within documents Fill template variables (name, company, date) Works on macOS and Windows. No Hancom Office license required. claude mcp add hwp-mcp -- uvx --from hwp-mcp hwp-mcp Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor — anywhere that supports MCP. If you're building RAG systems, internal search, or document automation for Korean companies, 60–80% of the source documents will be HWP. Before hwp-mcp the options were: Manual conversion (doesn't scale) Hancom API licensing (Windows-only, paid) Convert everything to Word org-wide (non-starter) Now you just install the MCP and Claude reads HWP natively. TreeSoop uses hwp-mcp in: Corporate RAG chatbots ingesting HWP knowledge bases Government RFP automation (RFPs are distributed as HWP) Legal contract review (Korean law firm contracts = HWP) Meeting-note template auto-fill Commercial use is fine. Contributions welcome. GitHub: https://github.com/treesoop/hwp-mcp Docs: included in repo README TreeSoop is an AI-Native dev agency from Korea. POSTECH/KAIST team. We're building production AI agents, RAG systems, and MCP tools. More OSS: ai-news-mcp, whisper_transcription, claude2codex. Blog: https://treesoop.com/blog