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泥中蟠龍's Game愛歌 _ Cultural industry and acknowledging cultural differences

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Cultural industry and acknowledging cultural differences   In recent years, with playing some local video games based on Samgukjji (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), I have seen a couple of transsexual game characters from man to woman. The trans characters for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms have been already created in Japan several times, which made me be interested in the concept. But until recently, they were not be seen in the Korean video games. We usually regard Japan as a standardized country with pervasive school bullying. But let's look back. Isn't Korea much worse when it comes to cultural diversity?: macho remarks, revised historical figures, reference to politics and thought, etc. For this reason, I'd like to discuss acknowledging cultural differences and cultural industry in this column. I think that bullying cultural diversity prevents CT (Culture Te...