[Digital Today reporter Lee Ho-jung (이호정)] Webzen said on Thursday it has established its social contribution programme plan for this year and will begin operating the “Youth Coding Workshop with Webzen” in 2026.

The Youth Coding Workshop with Webzen is a social contribution coding education project run together with the Seongnam Youth Foundation. The two organisations have confirmed this year’s education curriculum to strengthen youths’ digital capabilities and plan to run coding programmes and club activities using problem-based learning (PBL).

It will first work with Pangyo Youth Center and Yatap Youth Center to run a high school coding education programme called the “SW Making Project”. It will support learning for coding club students at about 10 high schools in the Seongnam area, from coding instruction to making final outputs.

Students who complete the course will be given a chance to participate in the youth ICT invention contest called the “Challenge Project”. The winning team will receive patent attorney advice for filing patents and full support for filing costs.

For elementary school students, it will offer coding education using robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in a format linked to school subjects. It will also operate separate after-school programmes where students can learn basic coding education such as Entry and Scratch.

Separately, Yatap Youth Center will continue a “game over-immersion prevention project” to help prevent youths’ excessive dependence on games and media. It plans to expand a parent participation programme that it introduced for the first time last year, providing education to prevent conflict with children who use games and to help restore relationships.