Seongnam Youth Foundation Signs AI Education MOU with Smilegate Future Lab

The Seongnam Youth Foundation in Gyeonggi Province signed a memorandum of understanding with Smilegate Future Lab on September 21, 2026, to expand AI-based creative education for youth. The two organizations plan to jointly develop and operate creative education programs, link future education content and resources, and enhance the professionalism of education personnel. In the first half of this year, they had already jointly run a video creation program using generative AI, and five completed works were submitted to the Busan International Children and Youth Film Festival.

The agreement turns generative AI video creation from a one-off activity into a long-term inter-organizational cooperation framework and explicitly includes capacity building for education personnel, offering a direct reference for sustaining local youth AI education programs. Two direct effects are that local youth may gain more AI creative education opportunities, and support for education personnel professionalism is included in the cooperation. The limitation is that the MOU does not disclose program scale, budget, timeline, or participant numbers, so actual implementation remains unverifiable. Local youth may gain more generative AI creative education opportunities through joint programs, and the cooperation expands to support local career teachers. Education personnel professionalism is included in the cooperation, but the MOU does not disclose budget, timeline, or participant numbers, so the scale of implementation remains unverifiable.