How do you get a Maple Story account

In the upper right of the screen at www.maplestory.com, choose your region to sign up for the right version of MapleStory. From there you choose to sign up. You use the same user for the forums and the game, so you only have to sign up once. Before you get to sign up, you will encounter an annoying screen, though. I believe it's some sort of advertising, don't really remember everything.