By Amber V
South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) says Valve agreed to cooperate in taking down a mod that “distorted historical facts” related to the Gwangju Uprising, a pivotal event in the country’s history (as reported by ThisIsGame).
The mod in question is a fan-made total conversion mod of the hit strategy RPG Mount & Blade: Warband, originally uploaded to the game’s Steam Workshop page. Titled “Gwangju Running Man,” the mod transformed Mount & Blade: Warband’s medieval setting into a modern depiction of Korea’s Gwangju Democratization Movement.
The Gwangju Uprising was a series of student-led pro-democratic demonstrations that took place in Korea in 1980. These protests are known to have been violently suppressed by the military, resulting in a massacre of civilians, but the mod depicted protesters as armed and violent criminals (according to YNA), thus framing the military regime’s brutality as justified. Additionally, the mod brandished the image of military dictator Chun Doo Hwan as its cover.
South Korean press speculates that the uploader may have been Chinese, based on reviews by the account being written in Simplified Chinese. However, users online argue that these may be a “cover,” as denial of the Gwangju massacre is more likely to come from Korea’s own far right groups than from abroad. In response to reports, GRAC initially had the Mount & Blade: Warband mod blocked in South Korea, but subsequently teamed up with the Korean government to ask Valve to have the mod suspended worldwide.
Valve complied, and the Gwangju Running Man mod was deleted from Steam as of June 12. Valve commented that it recognizes the importance the historical event has for Korean people. This is a somewhat rare instance of the platform taking acting upon local political and historical sensitivities.
Heres another fun factoid: South Korea has been massacring protesters quite literally from its inception as an American puppet military dictatorship.
Every single thing that’s been said about North Korea is actually something the fucking South Koreans did, including all the “you’re dead for the wrong haircut” bullshit
The north Koreans at one point in time formed a commando unit that specialized in black operation, direct action, irregular warfare, long-range penetration, and special operations for the purpose of conducting a one-way trip to the South in order to assassinate South korean president Park Chung-hee in 1968 in retaliation for the South’s botched Government Complex No. 1 raid.
The unit consisted of 31 civilian conscripts, mostly petty criminals and unemployed youths, and underwent three years of harsh training on the island of Sinmi. The assassination mission was cancelled in 1971 and the unit was slated to be liquidated but mutinied before their execution, resulting in a firefight in Pyongyang in which most of the members of the unit were killed. The four survivors were sentenced to death by a military tribunal and executed.
The families of the murdered mutineers would not learn of the fate of their loved ones until 2006, when the DPRK government released the information of the plot and those involved.
secret information on the unit I translated from Korean.
It was actually South Korea that did this. The commando group was known as Unit 684, and the only way the South korean public even got to know of the existence of their story was from a fucking movie called Silmido that’s based off of a book by the same name.
In South Korea Chun worshipped as a god
Oh I’m very aware the boomers worship their beloved glorious dogshit days
steamfrontmore like steamygrad
This is actually a good thing
So they’re totally going to take down all of the Clean Wehrmacht games to comply with German law, right?
Lmao someone tell the kraut nazis in the reichstag to get on this stat!
Amber.
