Nexon has expanded its game-based social contribution activities into various areas, including health care, education and welfare, with cumulative donations surpassing 80 billion won.
Nexon and the Nexon Foundation said on the 29th that they returned about 11 billion won to society over the course of 2025, and that cumulative donations over the past 10-plus years amount to about 80 billion won. Nexon said it views social contribution not as a one-off sponsorship but as a long-term commitment and is continuing sustained support.
Nexon's social contribution is not confined to a specific field but extends to digital education, pediatric health care, social welfare and disaster relief. In particular, its coding education initiative aimed at narrowing the digital education gap is representative. The "High Five Challenge," run with the Association of Computing Teachers, surpassed 200,000 cumulative student participants as of 2025 and, in cooperation with many metropolitan and provincial education offices nationwide, helped ease disparities in access to education between regions.
The block-coding platform "Hello Maple," which uses the MapleStory IP, has also expanded through school-linked classes, visiting coding classes and a college student mentor volunteer program, lowering the barrier to entry for coding education.
Social contribution activities using game IPs have continued. The MapleStory "Maple Leaf Playground" project rebuilt outdated or insufficient play spaces into public playgrounds to improve children's play environments, and Mabinogi "Sharing Mind, Let's Share Together Farm" has taken root as a participatory sharing model linked to a social workplace that helps young adults with developmental disabilities live independently. Funds raised through the "Nexon Hero Campaign," held to mark the 30th anniversary of its founding, were used for pediatric health care and home-visit rehabilitation programs.
In the social welfare sector, support has continued for children and adolescents from vulnerable groups. Together with NEXON GAMES, Nexon launched the "With Young Project" to support young carers (children caring for family members), providing tailored support across care, education and daily life. It also worked with the National Disaster Relief Association to bolster the social safety net for responding to national disasters such as wildfires.
The area Nexon has focused on the longest is pediatric rehabilitation medicine. Nexon and the Nexon Foundation have treated pediatric rehabilitation medicine not as a short-term aid but as social infrastructure, supporting the establishment of public pediatric rehabilitation medical facilities in major regions nationwide.
On Nov. in the South Jeolla region, the "South Jeolla Nexon Public Children's Rehabilitation Medical Center" opened, moving regional pediatric rehabilitation systems covering the greater Seoul area, Chungcheong, Yeongnam and Honam into the build-out stage. With this opening, the first public pediatric rehabilitation hub in South Jeolla was established, and the core medical infrastructure centered on Korea's five major regions that the Nexon Foundation has pursued has effectively reached completion.
Over the past 10-plus years, the Nexon Foundation has donated a cumulative 62.5 billion won to support pediatric health care. Of that, 55 billion won was pledged for hospital construction, and about 7.5 billion won has been provided as operating funds to ensure stable operations after openings. As of Aug. 2025, cumulative users of the pediatric rehabilitation medical facilities supported by Nexon total about 710,000. That equates to an average of seven or more rehabilitation treatments per child registered with a disability.
Satisfaction with medical services also proved high. In a year-end 2024 outpatient satisfaction survey at the "Daejeon-Sejong-Chungnam · Nexon-sponsored Public Children's Rehabilitation Hospital," 99% of 320 respondents rated the medical services positively.
Nexon is expanding its support beyond hospital construction to include operating funds and sponsorship of home-visit rehabilitation programs. It provides 300 million won in operating funds annually to the "Purme Foundation Nexon Children's Rehabilitation Hospital," which is used for mental health treatment for children with developmental disabilities, reinforcement of the robot rehabilitation treatment room, and improvements to the cognitive therapy environment.
A Nexon official said, "Social contribution across health care, education and welfare is the process of putting into practice the philosophy of 'making a better world through games,'" adding, "We will continue to carry forward our responsibility for children, adolescents and the future of society."