According to Korean newspaper The Dong-a IIbo (don't laugh), the gamers of South Korea are disappointed with the first ever appearance of a South Korean World Warrior. It's not so much a problem with Juri herself, but with her stage. Apparently it doesn't look Korean enough.
The South Korean stage in Super Street Fighter IV is said to resemble China more than South Korea, or at least some crazy mixture of both countries. The clothing of the background characters and the writing on the street signs are both Chinese (although South Korea does use Chinese writing). The stage has also been criticized for a lack of skyscrapers, which are a huge part of the South Korean landscape, and the rather outdated and obsolete representation of market vendors.
Street Fighter hasn't exactly been known for its sensitive portrayal of foreign lands. The India stage of Street Fighter II is hilarious in its borderline offensive stereotyping, and the original China stage isn't much better. Super Street Fighter IV's South Korea may not look like South Korea, but the fact Capcom got it wrong is a series tradition if you ask me.
South Korean Criticism of Super Street Fighter IV Korean Stage [Kotaku]
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7:00 AM on 12.28.2009
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Most of these characters look white!
If it was in a game where every country was portrayed in such a light I doubt I'd care. Is America nothing but air fields with military men standing around watching fighting tournaments? Besides, nobody is going to play SSFIV and say "Wow, look at the way Korea is represented, I should never go there." It's just a silly thing to get upset about.
I'd imagine he wouldn't give two giggling shits about it considering NOT A SINGLE FUCKING COUNTRY IN THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE HAS BEEN ANYTHING BUT AN OFFENSIVE STEREOTYPE. So you're Korean, does that give you the special "now I can bitch about this" badge because finally your country has been included in the illustrious "Street Fighter is racists" club?
Am I the only one who can't read that newspapers name without an Asian accent?
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Of course not. But South Korea does use both Korean and Chinese lettering, apparently.
Cammy's stage of ye olde English castles with ye olde English country side in the background is a farce, a farce I say. I speak for all Englishmen when I say a better representation would be Cammy duking it out in a grey council estate, overcast with grey clouds and mawkish under-aged drinkers screaming abuse in the background.
Also, Koreans are bothered by this but not by Juri's representation of Taekwondo?
They might as well have created the waaaaaahmbulance, since they uses its service so consistently over the years of whining about EVERYTHING. Hell I wouldn't be surprise if they CLAIM that they created the wahmbulance... but I'm just being mean (no I'm really not)
United States <> Venezuela.
But would we bitch and moan about, probably not...we'd just laugh and go back to stealing things and getting into drunken brawls. (Sadly the drunken brawls arent an inacurate stereotype these days...)
Secondly, if they really wanted to get Korea right, they should have put the stage inside game farming facility, with the npc's passing out or dieing after playing 72 hours of starcraft or wow.
What? Borderline offensive stereotyping? Its a cartoon game. With emphasis on cartoon and game..
If someone made a swedish Street Fighter stage with penis enlarger shops in the background and polar bears ice skating on the rooftops of a wooden cabin with blonde hair growing out of its sides, would I be offended?
Heck no.
I've never felt the India stage in SF2 is stereotyping. I just saw a room full of elephants.
This is one of the better representations IMO....my only complaint is that none of the guys in the background are wearing a pink shirt with slacks, and I do think Juri needs more plastic surgery around the eyes (OFF THE CHAIN)
In any case, it's pretty much guaranteed that some Koreans will complain about anything the Japanese do, and vice versa. It's very much like a fanboy fight.
At least your country is represented! You ungrateful gits.
I'm hispanic(born in America, family origin in El Salvador) and the closest thing I've got is a fucking Mexican Wrestler who COOKS??? Talk about racist. TRUE but racist. El Fuerte was probably born from the people at Capcom going to some restaurant and when the doors to the kitchen opened they saw all brown people so then "Oh! Mexicans love to cook!" "Mexican wrestling!" Fuck you, Capcom. Give me a proud Mexican warrior(T. Hawk) any day. I will loooove owning El Fuerte players with him.
TL;DR: Stfu Korea, it could be worse. Spoiled brats.
Oh and yeah, all Indian people ride elephants. Those are their cars in India. Racist Capcom. /agrees with Jim.
denjunki, being a big fan of both batman, korea, and chicago, new york has no reason to be upset. anyone who has ever tried to picture gotham has always thought chicago. the comic book creators too. metropolis, aka superman is where new york is at.
also denjunki is right about koreans being mad at japan with whatever they do. i actually like japan. i just jumped the gun on my bitchfest without clearly thinking. let me put it this way, i didn't sleep last night and this posted at 7. i got to it at 7:45. my bad!
4.5
My point is, any Koreans who are offended: Calm down, have a laugh, and join the club of races who have been officially stereotyped by Capcom.
I want my fight money.
That said, I don't think Street Fighter stages are meant to be be taken as de facto representations of each respective nation.
Hell yeh, Thai-ger fucking knee alright.