Nexon Games will use domestic natural and cultural heritage data held by the Korea Tourism Organization to create backgrounds for its new title, "Woochi The Wayfarer". The cooperation aims to reconstruct real South Korean scenery into the game’s Joseon fantasy world.

Nexon Games said on Sept. 14 it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Tourism Organization on Sept. 11 to support development of "Woochi The Wayfarer".

Under the agreement, the Korea Tourism Organization will provide Nexon Games with about 70,000 images and about 1,000 videos featuring domestic natural landscapes and cultural heritage. The materials include drone footage and content recorded from multiple angles of ruins, distinctive Korean terrain and scenery that are difficult for private entities to obtain.

Nexon Games plans to use the materials to create game backgrounds and graphic resources, together with data it secured during its own location scouting. It plans to base the work on real domestic scenery but reconstruct it to fit the game’s setting and art direction to realise its Joseon fantasy background.

"Woochi The Wayfarer" is a triple-A single-player action-adventure game being developed by Nexon Games’ Lorevault Studio. It tells an original story inspired by the Korean classic novel "Jeon Woochi-jeon" and depicts the Taoist Jeon Woochi using spells to battle monsters.

The cooperation is not expected to end at the development stage. Nexon Games and the Korea Tourism Organization also agreed to review ways to link tourism promotion and marketing in line with the timing of the game’s release and business 추진.

Kang In-soo (강인수), head of the Management General Division at Nexon Games, said the company can now use the Korea Tourism Organization’s data in developing "Woochi The Wayfarer". He said the collaboration will help raise the completeness of the game’s Korean-style backgrounds.

Kim Young-mi (김영미), head of the Tourism AI Innovation Division at the Korea Tourism Organization, said the game could help inform overseas users about South Korea’s nature and culture. She said she hopes the Korean scenery implemented in "Woochi The Wayfarer" will lead to interest in visiting the country.