Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 631: Hero’s Gate

As for South Korea, it's relatively abstract.

The issue with South Korea in the cultural field is that it has never developed its own unique culture.

For example, Huaxia had martial arts culture in the early years and later had xianxia culture. Both have a large international audience.

But with South Korea, after Jin Yong's martial arts novels became famous, they published them domestically and combined Jin Yong's trilogy into one, naming it Hero's Gate.

The cover image of the Hero's Gate novel published in South Korea.

This inspired South Korea's martial arts culture.

South Koreans use traditional martial arts sects like Shaolin, Wudang, Huashan.

But they insist on changing these names to Korean pronunciations and call this type of novel murim.

Thus, martial arts belong to Huaxia, but murim belongs to South Korea.

In fact, the biggest victims of South Korea's actions are not just Huaxia; Japan also suffers greatly.

After various anime from Japan became popular, South Koreans began to import manga aggressively.

But in internal promotion, South Koreans do not indicate that these comics come from Japan.

They change the names in the manga to Korean names and obscure any clear Japanese markers in the comics.

Eventually, South Koreans directly copied the content and art style of Japanese manga and claimed these were Korean comics.

This led to denunciations from Japan, with substantial evidence of Korea stealing culture first exposed by Japan.

This approach by South Koreans has caused quite a significant problem.

Naturally, after so much copying, they couldn't develop their own culture. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Whether it is Huaxia or Japan, both have strong population and economic capabilities for rapid iterative development of their unique cultures.

The elements South Koreans copied couldn't develop faster than those two countries' originals.

Eventually, the content South Koreans copied became an exotic supplement to Huaxia and Japan's unique cultures, serving as nutrients.

This has resulted in a situation where although South Koreans like to engage in online unity and tough talk.

Generally, people agree that anime originated in Japan, and martial arts and xianxia originated in Huaxia.

As for the plagiarized variants created by South Korea, no one regards them as original.

South Koreans themselves also struggle to officially promote them internationally.

However, after many years of copying, South Koreans suddenly realized that the pop music and borderline dance moves they learned from North America seemed to be popular internationally.

So, they were immediately delighted.

Even though these music and dance forms come from North America.

In reality, such pop music and dance are quite niche even in North America.

When it comes to external promotion, North America promotes Hollywood and legitimate music culture.

Thus, South Koreans took these elements as their own and boisterously promoted them, attempting to forge an internationally recognized unique South Korean culture.

No matter how serious the occasion or who the attendees are.

As long as there's a chance to promote, South Koreans will showcase their pop stars to the world.

The promotional video for this World Expo is likely a product of this mindset.

"Forget it," Schaefer also gave up on fretting about this promotional video business.

"Anyway, I'm just responsible for helping deliver these promotional videos to the exhibition bureau's leaders. How those leaders perceive it is not my concern."

As Schaefer and Chen Yiyang were chatting.

Chen Yiyang suddenly received a transoceanic call, and he checked the name.

It turned out to be Kasim, whom he knew from Saudi Arabia.

After answering the call, Kasim slowly spoke in English.

"Chen, the Crown Prince asked me to convey a message to you; he said he thought you were already friends with him."

"What are you talking about?" Chen Yiyang quickly replied, "Of course, the Crown Prince and I have long been very good friends.

And aren't we also good friends? We met in Saudi Arabia, and later in the United Kingdom, I helped you identify fake antiques, saving you from being deceived."

"Then why are you and Mr. Schaefer willing to help South Koreans rather than your good friends?"

Kasim continued in a rather serious tone, "We received some news here.

It says that you and Mr. Schaefer are helping South Korea's Busan in the competition for the next World Expo hosting rights.

Mr. Schaefer even helped persuade Italy to let Rome withdraw from this edition, favoring the next.

But I don't know if you've noticed that our Riyadh in Saudi Arabia is also vying for the next World Expo hosting rights."

Well.

Chen Yiyang didn't expect Kasim to come for this matter.

Originally, in Schaefer's plan, after getting benefits from South Koreans, they were still supposed to contact the Saudis and see if they could benefit from both sides.

Unexpectedly, even before Schaefer contacted the Saudis.

The intelligence network in Saudi Arabia already knew about Schaefer assisting South Korea in their bid.

Chen Yiyang naturally couldn't explain straight away, so he told Kasim, "Mr. Kasim, this matter is mainly handled by Schaefer, who's right here with me, how about I hand the phone to him, and let him explain to you personally."

After Kasim agreed, Chen Yiyang passed the phone to Schaefer beside him.

"Hi, Mr. Kasim." Schaefer picked up the phone and immediately switched to his broker mode.

"Of course, I know Riyadh is also participating in this competition.

But I'm just a small broker. I originally thought Saudi Arabia wouldn't be interested in me, so I went to see what opportunities there might be with the South Koreans.

However, compared to the South Koreans, the friendship with you and the Crown Prince is what I value most.

If you need my help, I can immediately show you the election video that the South Koreans just gave me to present to exhibition bureaus of other countries, so you can get an early look at their election strategy.

That's certainly not a problem. Even though I have my professional ethics, I'm willing to compromise my principles for the sake of my friendship with you and the Crown Prince."

Schaefer quickly communicated with Kasim and resolved the matter.

He officially switched allegiance to Saudi Arabia, becoming a spy stationed in South Korea to inform Kasim about Korea's election progress and strategy.

After hanging up the phone, Schaefer turned to Chen Yiyang.

"Brother, hurry up, we've got work to do."

"What's the rush?" Chen Yiyang asked puzzled, "Doesn't Kasim just want the Busan World Expo campaign video? Just give it to him."

"Brother." Schaefer picked up the USB drive, seriously addressing Chen Yiyang, "Do you think if I give him this video full of people no one recognizes, with only one choice, will he believe I'm truly willing to serve Saudi Arabia, or will he think I'm covering for the South Koreans, giving him something fake?"