The voice actors in the "Like a Dragon" series angered Korean players with inappropriate remarks

Last week, Sega held a press conference for the Yakuza series, at which the remakes "Yakuza Kiwami 2", "New Yakuza", and "Yakuza Online" were announced. and "The Big Dipper among the People". However, when the press conference concluded and the voice actors were invited to give speeches, voice actor Susumu Terajima's inappropriate remarks triggered an explosion of rebuke in South Korea, which may even lead to the cancellation of "Yakuza Kiwami 2" in South Korea.

Susumu Terajima is a famous Japanese actor and voice actor who is famous for playing Yakuza characters in many movies (such as "Sonata"). In his closing speech at the press conference, Mr. Terashima said: "There are many North Koreans with us on the stage today. We sincerely hope that no missiles will fly over."

From There may be nothing wrong with the Chinese translation, but the problem is that Terashima used the word "Korean" at the time. Although South Korea and North Korea are both Korea in English (and both are of the same origin), they are just divided into north and south. But South Koreans themselves do not call themselves "North Korea" and even try their best to exclude all elements related to North Korea. If you call a South Korean south of the 38th parallel "North Korean", it is equivalent to calling you a banana in Western countries, which is an insult in nature.

In addition, we also learned this morning that North Korea was conducting missile tests last week and launched a missile over Japan, making this "joke" very inappropriate.

After Susumu Terajima spoke, the audience responded with stunned surprise. Voice actor Kimura Yuichi, who appeared on the same stage, said: "You have to apologize well after this." Although there were people on the stage A few Japanese-Korean actors were present, but most just laughed it off.

Kimura Yuichi said to Susumu Terajima, "You have to apologize properly later."

But the situation in South Korea is completely different. This has the " The bad impact of words "insulting Korea" may lead to the cancellation of the release of "Yakuza Kiwami 2" in South Korea - you must know that the "Yakuza" series also has a group of diehard fans in South Korea. Korean netizens denounced Susumu Terashima on the Internet, especially Korean fans of Yakuza, who did not want the game to be banned.

The following is a statement from the Korean discussion board Ruliweb:

"Those who say that Koreans refer to North Korea should just wash their hands and sleep. In such an official and It's okay for a Korean-Japanese person to joke about missiles at a press conference. Even for a Korean game, if he said "please solve the comfort women and Takeshima issue" because there are Japanese people in the game, it would have been blasted. ”

“Stop whitewashing, and imagine from another perspective, at a Korean film conference with Japanese actors participating, the Korean actors said, ‘This film has Japanese participation, I hope they will not be bombed tomorrow’ Let’s see if it fits.”

Speech from Inven:

“Okay, these guys on the stage are sarcastic about Japanese people wearing traditional footbags and clogs. I hope you don’t get nuked."

Statement from Naver Sport:

"I understand those who are trying to defend this situation. Because they don’t want the game to be banned, but don’t wash this person’s words. It’s your choice whether to buy the game or not, but I won’t comment on what shouldn’t be said. I’m surprised that the actor is so uneducated. . ”

Last night, Sega Korea officially issued an apology statement on its website, formally apologizing for Terashima Susumu’s remarks and promising that similar incidents would not happen again in the future.