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7/5/2025, 11:57:49 PM
>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.
https://archive.is/G2zz0
>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.
https://archive.is/G2zz0
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