Nexon Co., Ltd. signed a business agreement with Gangnam-gu Office in Seoul based on its metaverse platform ‘Maple Story World’ and opened a virtual world implementing ‘Gangnam Future Education Center’.
At the agreement ceremony held at the opening ceremony of the ‘Gangnam Future Education Center’ on the 14th, Nexon Vice President Kim Dae-hwon and Gangnam-gu District Mayor Cho Seong-myeong attended and promised active cooperation. According to this agreement, Nexon will introduce a virtual space that embodies the ‘Gangnam Future Education Center’, a comprehensive educational institution where you can experience realistic content and future technologies such as artificial intelligence, within ‘Maple Story World’, a content creation and play platform.
The virtual future education center implemented as ‘Maple Story World’ plans to support children and youth to experience and use programs provided by actual offline centers, such as career counseling, special lectures, and virtual schools, online.
Afterwards, both sides will provide support in various ways to help students have beneficial interactions with the virtual world in line with the trend of the 4th industrial era, such as conducting metaverse and coding education using ‘Maple Story World’ for students within the jurisdiction of Gangnam-gu. Is expected.
Gangnam-gu Mayor Cho Seong-myeong said, “Through cooperation with Nexon, we are pleased to be able to provide students with high-quality educational content that is not limited by space,” adding, “Through various collaborations in the future, we will provide the convergence education necessary for the future society to foster creative talent.” “I will do my best to train them,” he said.
Nexon Vice President Kim Dae-hwon said, “Collaboration with Gangnam-gu Office is meaningful in that it leads future members of society with the technology and capabilities Nexon has accumulated so far,” and added, “Nexon will continue to use its contents, including ‘Maple Story World,’ for education.” “We will contribute to nurturing IT and metaverse dreamers by supporting them.”
Meanwhile, ‘Maple Story World’ utilizes the vast resources of Nexon’s representative intellectual property (IP) ‘Maple Story’ to create and share content that allows anyone to create and share their own world (content) and play with others. It is a play platform. Detailed information can be found on the official website.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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