Sony has confirmed that Rise of the Ronin won\u2019t be coming to South Korea when it releases on 22 March this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was first noticed when Sony pulled the game from the Korean PlayStation Store and removed the title\u2019s trailers from the PlayStation Korea YouTube account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The commonly believed reason Rise of the Ronin is not releasing in South Korea is due to the comments made by the game\u2019s director, Fumuhiko Yasuda, in a behind-the-scenes trailer released last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These comments were about Sh\u014din Yoshida, a 19th-century scholar, who was seen as one of the driving forces of the Seikanron \u2013 a right-wing movement within the Japanese government in 1873 that unsuccessfully argued for an invasion of Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Although it was a different world in a different time, I believe he could be compared to Socrates. I wanted to depict his teachings and his life from the moment I started working on Rise of the Ronin. He wasn’t just a philosopher. He insisted on the importance of taking action,\u201d Yasuda said about Yoshida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given this and Japan\u2019s later violent occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945, it’s understandable why South Korea could have concerns over these comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sony, however, has maintained that this is not the reason for the game not releasing in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rise of the Ronin is a PS5 exclusive releasing on 22 March from well-known developer Team Ninja \u2013 made popular by titles such as Nioh, Nioh 2, and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n