Can a game machine be diplomatic? Foreign media says Nintendo improves Japan-ROK relations

The relationship between Japan and South Korea has long been strained by historical reasons, and young people and popular culture in both countries have long been resisted and reviled by each other, but Nintendo has succeeded in improving the situation, according to overseas media reports. Nintendo quietly set up a South Korean subsidiary in 2006 and launched the Licensed DS mainframe in 2007 for the Korean market, inviting a teenage combination to appear in the DSi. This combination of "Genie" and "Gee" also spread to Japan through the Nintendo platform, and hit in the local.　　Nintendo then launched the Wii host for South Korea, and the simultaneous listing of the "Mario" and many other heavyweight Korean version of the game, popular among South Koreans. Japanese goods have been banned by the South Korean government for decades as Japan's 36-year colonial rule over the Korean peninsula, the main reason for the dominance of PC games in South Korea.　　But with Nintendo's pioneering, the long-standing gap between young people in the two countries is slowly improving. Of course, such topics as "Kim or shallow asada who are better" will be the focus of the national debate in the future for a considerable period of time, and it can also be seen that there is a long way to go in the process of reconciliation between the two countries.