User blog comment:ItsukoChan/Petition for Im Yong Soo?/@comment-68.88.96.170-20100707173125

I personally have read many comments from people who are from South Korea, and who are quite angry at thier country for causing Yong to be taken out of Hetalia.

Hidekaz did in fact go to Amerca. He went back home for the release of Hetalia. He also does travel around to other places outside of Japan. This would explain how accurately he is able to portray the differences between America and Japan in his strips.

@23:35: Is that not what thier government did? Causing a country to be taken out of an anime, because THEY WANTED it? We want him in for our own interests as well, but do not act like South Korea is the only victim. In Hetalia, all countries are portrayed in ways they might not like. And you do not see them going around getting things signed officially by thier government or making death threats that can be taken seriously. The fact that the government had time to do this is proof of a lack of concentration on more important things...