Ch.30Chapter 2. The Legendary Librarian Legend (4)

Dear Author,

I apologize for contacting you through a private message, but I felt my thoughts couldn’t be fully expressed through comments alone.

You seem to be quite concerned about the costumes of powered individuals.

Though I cannot presume your gender, it appears you’re trying to design costumes for female powered individuals.

I understand your dilemma.

Female powered individuals indeed look beautiful when showing their well-maintained physiques and body lines.

However, if you wish to design clothes for powered individuals, especially uniforms for heroes, I would like to suggest hanbok that embodies the spirit of Korea.

I am Korean.

And hanbok contains the spirit and soul of our people.

Do you know about the composition of hanbok? Hanbok is…

In this sense, I humbly suggest hanbok.

Many powered individuals in Korea have already chosen hanbok as their hero uniforms.

But what they wear are fake hanboks infiltrated by Western influence.

Not hanbok modified for convenience in our daily lives, but products of cultural flunkeyism that violate and rape tradition under the name of boldness and innovation.

In the past, during the 70s and 80s, we tended to regard American culture as supreme.

That was the era of the Miracle on the Han River.

But now that Korea has created miracles on the Nakdong River and the East Sea and stands tall at the center of the world, we need to proudly spread our culture globally and prove that Korean culture is world culture.

For the past twenty-five years, Korea has been spreading its culture worldwide, but the most effective cultural ambassadors are powerful powered individuals.

When this country’s greatest powered individual, “Snow White,” appeared in a bibimbap commercial, gochujang sold out in grocery stores overseas.

That’s how powerful the influence of powered individuals is.

If powered individuals wore hanbok as their uniforms, there would be no better opportunity to spread our culture widely.

Dear Author,

The same applies to artwork.

Your drawings will spread across the sea of information and delight the eyes of many around the world.

How wonderful would it be if those clothes were hanbok?

Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone from the edge of this continent, in Northern Europe, saw your drawings, became interested in hanbok, and subsequently in Korea, traveled here, and took photos wearing militia uniforms at the Dongnae Fortress ruins in Busan?

Isn’t there a way to spread the Korean spirit rather than all those foreign clothes?

Dear Author,

Recently, I’ve often seen people worshipping foreign things.

It’s the new appearance shown by the one called “Goblin.”

Ah, how lamentable!

Despite having the alias Goblin, he wears Western suits and carries not a traditional club used in Korean polo but a baseball bat originating from the West?

Is he truly a goblin?

By arbitrarily using the name “goblin” and distorting our traditional culture, he is truly a villain.

This recent incident proves it.

If his transformation under the name “goblin” had resembled our traditional cultural goblin, I wouldn’t be saying this.

If he had worn a durumagi, with sobok underneath like a martial arts uniform, and declared he would wrestle demons, I would have applauded him despite him being a villain.

But what did he do?

Using some transformation tool, he mocked our traditions by speaking English during his transformation.

He even defeated demons while babbling about “arts” and using bizarre English.

He could have easily created technique names like “Southern Cross of Midsummer” or “Crossroads of Heaven,” but deliberately used English.

And in Sejong Island, no less!!

He must not be a goblin.

He must be a foreigner pretending to be a goblin.

The kind who washes kimchi in water, eats it in soup, eats gukbap without kkakdugi, and strains out rice grains when drinking sikhye.

The world is now enthusiastic about such a person.

What a calamity!

It’s no different from a cuckoo laying eggs in a kestrel’s nest, pushing out the original eggs, and pretending to be a kestrel.

When such a person acts as if he’s a “Korean goblin,” I am furious and indignant.

He should not call himself a goblin.

He should use a different name, one that matches his original nationality.

I’ve been informing many people about what Korean goblins truly are.

Against the distortion by that vicious goblin of The Syndicate, I’m spreading awareness about our genuine, native Korean goblins to protect our traditions and spirit.

I’m not forcing anything.

But if you participate in spreading our national spirit, I would be overjoyed.

I’m not just making empty requests.

I’ve prepared some materials to help your hanbok drawings spread worldwide and promote the soul of our Republic of Korea.

One. National Museum_Introduction to Our Traditional Hanbok_

Two. National Museum_Virtual Reality Experience of Hanbok Exhibition Hall_

Three. Video_[I Rented Hanbok and Came to Busan for Pork Soup] Source: Piesto Carman’s Korean Working Holiday.

Four. …

Our ancestors traditionally incorporated various and colorful hues into hanbok.

And the nobility added beautiful embroidery.

I’ve sketched a few designs.

They include hanbok suitable for Ganggangsuwollae dance, sobok for bathing during Dano Festival, colorful jeogori like five-colored rice cakes for the first full moon festival, and hanbok with general’s uniform patterns worn by the hero “Night Shadow” at the 2020 Armed Forces Day event.

Though my sketches are nothing compared to your artistic skills, I send this message hoping they might serve as a small reference for your drawings.

I hope your artwork will embody the Korean spirit, and with that, I conclude my message.

It’s the cold wind season that envies blooming flowers.

Please don’t catch a cold and continue creating beautiful artwork.

-From BurningTeeth

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“…….”

I wonder how many messages they wrote to make it this long, but the scariest part is:

“Ymir, do you know something? There’s only one English word in this entire message.”

“…The source?”

“Yes.”

In everyday life, people naturally use loanwords, but this message avoids foreign words to an excessive degree.

“Having someone like this nearby would be exhausting, right?”

“Really? I see them often on variety shows.”

“…What?”

“You know, blonde-haired, blue-eyed people wearing traditional Korean robes, hats, and carrying fans while saying things like ‘Ahem’ or ‘You there!’ There are many of those. Oh, you probably wouldn’t know about that in Korea.”

“…….”

The nationalism in this world is…

Has it even conquered Canadian broadcasting stations?

How truly terrifying.

‘So that’s why this Dojirider or whatever is popular now.’

In this era where even broadcasting stations are obsessed with praising Korea.

Dojirider’s Hollywood SF sensibility mixed with Japanese tokusatsu culture, with almost no Korean elements, might evoke nostalgia for them.

“…Hmm.”

Therefore.

“Ymir, I think this is a good suggestion.”

“What?”

“Hanbok. Let’s go with hanbok as the concept for your suit.”

“…Teacher? Weren’t you disgusted by this just a moment ago?”

“I was. But thinking about it, if we design with hanbok, people like this in this country will support you, right?”

“Ah.”

They may be hooligans, but there’s nothing more reassuring than having hooligans on your side.

“If you were going to be a villain, it would make sense to look like The Syndicate or Goblin or Dojirider. But why did you come to this academy? Not to become a villain, right?”

“I…”

“If you don’t like it, that’s fine, but personally, I’m curious.”

Honestly.

“I think you would look really pretty in hanbok.”

“…Are you serious?”

“Yes. Of course.”

Wearing hanbok means avoiding criticism and living comfortably in this country.

“Many people in this country will see you as a foreign daughter-in-law if we design your costume with hanbok.”

“Foreign…daughter-in-law?”

Ymir smiled awkwardly, flustered, but.

“…That’s right. Daughter-in-law.”

Soon she licked her lips and smiled faintly.

“Okay. I’ll do it. Hanbok costume.”