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Super Street Fighter 4 will be the first Street Fighter title to have a Korean character, Juri, and a Korean stage. However, not everybody is apparently happy with how Korea is portrayed in the game's new stage.

In South Korean newspaper The Dong-a IIbo, South Korean gamers who have seen the stage feel disappointed and do not feel that it looks Korean enough.  It looks Chinese, or a mish-mash of both, making it difficult to discern where the stage really is.

The clothing that the background characters are wearing are not overtly Korean and the banners in the stage are predominately in Chinese writing. Chinese writing has been traditionally used in Korean landmarks, temples and shrines, however.  Another criticism is that there are few skyscrapers visible in the stage, which dominate today's South Korean landscape.  The depiction of street vendors is also seen as highly outdated.

Source: Kotaku