안녕히 계세요.

Once more, for nostalgia's sake.

korea and north korea for requests if theyre still open??

I've had this brainworm of them playing DND as a rogue and a ranger for a while, so thanks for giving me a chance to draw it! Also, cardverse.

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Some EAsian Headcanons (because I don’t know what to post)

China be complaining about air pollution and be carrying a box of cigars everywhere.

Korea gets the most girls amongst all the EAsians. Macau comes close.

Japan has a pond with koi fish in his garden.

Japan is very very competitive. Would fight tooth and nail to be better than his opponents.

Hong Kong has insomnia because of all the lights. Other EAsians have a really lively night life, but they’ve gotten over it.

Korea, on the other hand, stays up late because he can, and can wake up early too.

Hong Kong is a germaphobe and carries sanitizer and wet tissue packets everywhere. Has trust issues when it comes to sanitation. Never uses his finger to press the lift button.

China once snuck into the British museum and took back a painting he made about 500 years ago, which he spent a week on. Caused international disputes as he sips on his tea with no milk and never planning on giving it up. (Inspired India to do the same)

Mongolia is part of almost every Asian Region group chat(after a ton of persuasion, bargaining, and begging. He just wants to leak the gossip and drama).

China, South Korea, Japan, and Mongolia(mainly with China) get into arguments 24/7. They’re internet fights are crazy, and they’re accounts have been suspended and banned multiple times.

China spoils the heck out of North Korea. He would be (maybe illegally) sending him all kinds of fancy stuff, which is currently piling up in N.K’s storage room.

im in love with your n korea design, whats he up to?

did i just see someone hc South Korea to be the child of North Korea and America post-WWII

When do u think the modern personification of Korea was born? Cause there is the kingdom of Goguryeo which place Korea at like 4000(but like would it be like a china situation where it’s the same personification who’s just stupidly old or like Greece and Egypt where they had an ancient version) there’s also the three kingdoms period which started about 2000 years ago. Or there’s even the more modern eras like Joseon. I’m just curious how old u see the current personification as.

*Gojoseon I accidentally typed the wrong G kingdom. Goguryeo was later on. Sorry for any confusion

thanks for the question! this is my personal take on it: yong-soo is at least 2000 years old; he thus dates back to the three kingdoms period rather than to gojoseon. i do think there's always some wiggle room with the age of a personification and how we interpret history so i can see other variations; my main hard no is making him too young (such as born after the 1950 korean war...please no).

contemporarily, yong-soo represents south korea, but in the beginning, i see him as the old korean kingdom of silla. nations don't suddenly spring into existence overnight, so while silla was was officially founded in 57 BCE, he's probably older than that. that's just the latest date i see him being around by. yong soo, imo, also has/had at least two brothers: goguryeo (who later represents north korea after wwii) and baekje, who was kiku's close ally—as per how, in real history, the kingdom of baekje and yamato japan had quite an important alliance. baekje dies by a combination of yong-soo and yao's actions after the baekje-tang war—as per how baekje got annexed into the kingdom of silla, and china crushed the japanese forces attempting to support baekje restorationists at the battle of baekgang. i don't think yong-soo necessarily wanted his brother to die, but it was a power struggle, and those have consequences (as tang dynasty yao would probably say coolly, while seated atop his war horse...😔)—nations mirror humans, and how often have royal houses across different cultures warred against family members throughout human history? so, it's kind of sombre but there were once three brothers.

overall, i see yong-soo as an old nation who's lived many lives before his present incarnation as the republic of korea (and in the east asian cosmology; reincarnation is quite a familiar concept for us). i see him being older than kiku, and he's the one who taught kiku advanced shipbuilding and navigation, as a reflection of how mariners/shipbuilders from silla influenced japan. this is naturally very ironic from the meiji era onwards, particularly when korea comes under japanese colonial rule, and kiku refashions himself as a 'modern' naval power. so, rather than the canon dynamic that seems to posit a rather youthful yong-soo vs. old man china and japan...imo it's really Old Men Wrestling with the Confucian Hierarchy All the Way Down (even if Yong-soo's skincare regimen means he looks good and he is skilled at putting on a friendly and youngish persona if need be). one implication that's important to me about yong-soo's age is exploring how he and kiku (and also yao) have a very old relationship that runs deep due to all that history and cultural exchange, but it is naturally, far from easy.

happy lunar new year with im suho/north korea! i had so much fun drawing him

새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Nyotalia my beloved

ref for future drawings of Korea :3

why must you harass him. he is retired.

please do tell why you ship it too in the tags if you rb! this is for a future post i want to do on viet ships and i’d appreciate the general consensus :)

Little art dump!!!! Sorry i forget to post here!!!!!!

Going to do amechuweek btw!!! Will post more about it in june when I finish my college work

Mostly amechu but always yao... im sorry my art is so incosistent djfjdjdjd also im sorry iggychu and chunk haters i am a multishipper (amechu is always my endgame tho no matter what)

WHY IS YOUR SOUTH KOREA SO HOT AND WHAT DOES HE TRADE

can i also ask for amekor + nkcuba???

TUMBLR ATE YOUR OTHER ASK ASKING ABOUT KORPAN UZBLIET AND TURKUZB SO IM GONNA PUT THIS HERE TOO 😭😭😭(korpan here!)

turkuzb: i lurve them they're so funny and i love pan-turkic turanist turkey trying to charm uzbekistan and her going 🤨they are so dear to me...

nkcuba: I actually think it's super cool how many ties cuba was able to establish to other socialist countries through their outreach programs like sending medicine and doctors and soldiers :3c i can def see those two together, they have similar down to earth and humble natures i feel hehe

uzbliet: I know I already joked about this but uzbliet to me is just making awkward eye contact across the table at the soviet union meetings like

korame: IM AFRAID IT JUST ISN'T FOR ME.... I THINK IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE GIVEN THE INTERACTIONS BUT IT'S NOT SMTH THAT COMPELS ME A LOT..... (but i love soojin tho fist bumps)

i'm gonna smoke you up