Claude Cowork Training with Instructor John Kim

Yesterday morning I ran a 2.5-hour online “Claude Cowork” training session over Zoom. About 25 people joined from many fields, including professors, instructors, and office professionals. Some of the sharpest, most practical questions came up during the session, and I think my answers will help you too, so I've summarized a few of them here.

Q1. "Does it work well with Naver Calendar and Naver Mail?"  A: Honestly, for now it works best with Google (Gmail) and Microsoft Office. Naver is conservative about opening its APIs for security reasons, so it's harder. But if productivity is your goal, I recommend using this chance to shift your workflow to Google Workspace.

Q2. "Public institutions use a lot of Hangul (HWP) files. Can it handle report writing?"  A: It’s only just becoming possible! If you build a 'skill' into Claude yourself, it can write Hangul reports that match your company's template exactly. It does take some time, though. Civil servants and public-enterprise staff in particular perked up at this point. Inline AI runs impressively fast.

Q3. "Can it pull data from our in-house ERP system?"  A: Technically, yes. Security matters, though, so you will need some help from your IT team. Once the API connection is in place, generating quotes and building proposals from in-house data should be easy.

 Q4. "I have too many meetings. How do I automate meeting minutes?"  A: This is probably the easiest one. Record the meeting, convert it to text, and drop it into your company's meeting-minutes template folder. AI pulls out the key points and organizes them for you, so you can focus on the meeting itself. [A]

In the end, what matters isn't the technology but domain knowledge. When the person who knows the job best picks up AI as a tool, the impact is hard to overstate. I'm editing a video right now to capture the energy of this session, and I'll share the link as soon as it's done. Please bear with me a little longer. Have a fun 'vibe coding' day with AI!