Hi, I am a Korean player who has enjoyed playing FFXIV for a while now. I have always loved seeing the Korean dev team design outfits based on hanbok and releasing them to the rest of the world.
I was very excited to see the Far Eastern Performer's Attire be added to the online shop. I've seen screenshots of it from the Korean branch of the dev team and I was over the moon. The attire is inspired by pungmulnori, a Korean performance art, and it is one of my favorite things from my heritage.
However, I was disappointed in seeing the listing itself. I wanted to point out that the online store listing for the Far Eastern Performer's Attire in the English shop specifically mentions that there is an "authentic Hingan mask" while listing all the pieces in Japanese. With how Hingashi is clearly Japanese inspired, this is extremely disrespectful towards Koreans, especially given how Korea has had a history of having their culture be erased during Japanese occupation before and during WWII.
This is an issue that I have seen only in the English store, as the other languages merely mention that it is Far Eastern. I would like to request the English localization team to at the very least please update the store description so that any mention of Hingashi is taken out of it.
Even better if the item names themselves were changed so that they were not Japanese because the outfits in question are NOT Japanese and designed by KOREANS. The Mun'gaek Uibok was the romanized version of the Korean name, why couldn't it be done to this outfit?
Please update the shop listing and, if possible, the names of the items as well. This is a very bad look on the English localization team.
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I was very excited to see the Far Eastern Performer's Attire be added to the online shop. I've seen screenshots of it from the Korean branch of the dev team and I was over the moon. The attire is inspired by pungmulnori, a Korean performance art, and it is one of my favorite things from my heritage.
However, I was disappointed in seeing the listing itself. I wanted to point out that the online store listing for the Far Eastern Performer's Attire in the English shop specifically mentions that there is an "authentic Hingan mask" while listing all the pieces in Japanese. With how Hingashi is clearly Japanese inspired, this is extremely disrespectful towards Koreans, especially given how Korea has had a history of having their culture be erased during Japanese occupation before and during WWII.
This is an issue that I have seen only in the English store, as the other languages merely mention that it is Far Eastern. I would like to request the English localization team to at the very least please update the store description so that any mention of Hingashi is taken out of it.
Even better if the item names themselves were changed so that they were not Japanese because the outfits in question are NOT Japanese and designed by KOREANS. The Mun'gaek Uibok was the romanized version of the Korean name, why couldn't it be done to this outfit?
Please update the shop listing and, if possible, the names of the items as well. This is a very bad look on the English localization team.
Continue reading...