This undated file photo shows a street in Bukchon Hanok village in central Seoul. Hanok is a traditional Korean-style house. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A website that offers free 3D data for South Korean cultural heritage is facing malicious comments from Chinese online commentators.
Chinese netizens have given one particular asset, Korean traditional houses known as “hanok,” a one-star rating on the Unreal Engine Marketplace, run by U.S. video game giant Epic Games Inc.
Furthermore, they left comments claiming that it is “not Korean culture, but Chinese.”
In game development, an asset refers to a collection of data sets that include modeling, textures, and sound.
About ten images of Korean traditional patterns and textures have been subjected to verbal assault by Chinese netizens.
However, the hanok asset’s quality is much higher than those created by private developers.
It is available for free download and can be applied to games, which has led developers worldwide to welcome it.
Since word of mouth spread to China, several netizens have made unnecessary verbal assaults and false claims against Korean heritage.
Lina Jang (linajang@koreabizwire.com)
