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Hours later, SMPA investigators also conducted a surprise raid on the headquarters of local portal site Daum on similar suspicions. The investigators confiscated hard drives and other documents during their raid on Daum's Seoul office in Hannam-dong, central Seoul.

The forthcoming remake of Red Dawn, the 1984 film in which American teenagers band together to fight invading Soviet forces, will feature a North Korean invasion of the United States, similar to just-released shooter Homefront. Why is that so interesting? Because they already shot the film as a Chinese invasion of the States.

The film’s producers are in the process of digitally altering the new Red Dawn, swapping out Chinese imagery and changing dialogue to make the film’s aggressors North Korean, reports the LA Times. Studio execs were concerned about Chinese leadership being offended by the war flick and losing (potentially) a billion viewers over Red Dawn’s choice of villain.

“MGM has been working with the film ‘Red Dawn’s’ director and producers to make the most commercially viable version of the film for audiences worldwide,” said Mike Vollman, executive vice president of worldwide marketing to the LA Times. “We want to ensure the most people possible are able to experience it.”

Publisher THQ shared similar concerns when it chose a unified Korean invasion over a Chinese attack on US soil. Execs said China was just “not that scary”. But it too was worried about China’s reception to Homefront.

“The guys in our Chinese office said: Did you know that everybody on the exec team will be banned from coming into China for the rest of your lives?” executive Danny Bilson told Kotaku earlier this year. “They were afraid the ministry of culture was going to wipe us out.”

Both Homefront and the original Red Dawn were co-written by screenwriter John Milius.

“South Korea must bring the perpetrators to justice, to pay compensation for the disappearance of our properties, and make concrete action to prevent similar cases happening again,” said a spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu.

Just lately, belatedly, the Japanese are taking note of what Korea has done during Japan’s “lost decade.” Let me offer a shocking example of the current Japan/Korea gulf. Most Japanese consumers still don’t know who Samsung is. To my surprise, many big electronics chain stores in Japan do not even carry flat panel TVs made by Samsung – undisputedly the world’s largest LCD manufacturer.

But out of sight of consumers, the Japanese business community is abuzz with the rise of Samsung. They can’t seem to have enough of Samsung stories. Drop into any Tokyo book stores. Books and magazines with headlines like “Samsung’s global market strategies,” “Japan’s new growth plan: How not to lose to Samsung,” “Samsung’s weakness,” or “Don’t fear Samsung,” are flying off the shelf.

Or talk to any Japanese businessmen working in the electronics industry. Your conversation will inevitably turn to an analysis of Samsung.

One figure says it all: Combined operating profits at Japan's nine major consumer and industrial electronics makers for the most recent quarter were $1.7 billion.

Alone, South Korea's Samsung Electronics earned over twice that.