Nexon Foundation said on Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education to help teenagers build coding skills and reduce the digital divide.

The signing ceremony, held on Tuesday at the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education's Southern Office building, was attended by Jeong-uk Kim (김정욱), chairman of Nexon Foundation, Min-seok Shin (신민석), executive director overseeing Nexon Korea's MapleW Group, and Tae-hee Lim (임태희), superintendent of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, among others.

The agreement is part of efforts to broaden the base of the "MapleStory Worlds (MSW) Creator School" project that Nexon Foundation started this year. It aims to foster future game-creation talent through text-based coding and game-creation career education using "MapleStory Worlds".

Nexon Foundation plans to send professional instructors to middle and high schools to run step-by-step game creation programs, including a starter course for basics, a maker course for advanced learning and a creator course for specialised training. It will diversify curricula by student age and difficulty to provide customised growth tracks.

This year, it will work to expand the project within public education by linking it to the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education's local education platform, "Gyeonggi Shared School". It plans to jointly operate the MSW Creator School starter and maker courses.

For the starter course, it will recruit participating schools at education support offices in Gyeonggi Province from April onward. The maker course will be opened later so students can apply directly through the Gyeonggi Shared School online system.

Kim said the MSW Creator School combines coding education projects and game-creation career education that Nexon Foundation has been running. He said it will expand cooperation with various regions and institutions to help more students grow into talent for the game industry.

MapleStory Worlds is a sandbox-style creation platform where users produce and share content using resources from Nexon's intellectual property, "MapleStory". It was officially launched in 2024 and surpassed 7,000,000 cumulative users worldwide after starting global official service in April 2025.