User blog comment:General tiu/Korea: who was he, and can he still be saved?/@comment-1710579-20100601064043

If our country is portrayed as a bitchy woman who likes to troll China, Taiwan and Vietnam over the South Sea Islands, we don't care. There are many Filipinos who are assholes anyway. And if some pressure group wants the Philippines out of the series, we are prepared, because we learned some lessons from Korea's character. There are actually more Koreans than Filipinos in anime, really.

In fact, it WAS the controversy itself that made Yong-soo popular, I argue. After all, many characters that were otherwise forgotten or dropped by the author had been saved by the fans, and Yong-soo is no exception to that. Perhaps five years from now, the S. Korea we know today will be different enough and be more mature than ever that it warrants his re-instatement to the manga.