At the request of South Korea, Valve pulled a mod from Steam that glorified the country's military dictatorship

Update: Valve only blocked a creepy fascist Mount and Blade: Warband mod in South Korea, not worldwide, and the mod's own author took it down entirely | PC Gamer

The story now lines up with prior Valve moderation decisions.

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Valve has cleared up the confusion around the so-called “Gwangju Running Man” mod for Mount and Blade: Warband, confirming it only blocked the title in South Korea (at the government’s request) rather than banning it worldwide. In fact, the mod’s creator pulled it outright back in June, so Valve’s global storefront never actually hosted it after that point. This update lines up with Valve’s past moderation moves and underscores that they weren’t secretly cracking down on historical revisionism everywhere—just where local law demanded it.

For context, the mod offered a modern-day, right-wing reinterpretation of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, a democratic protest brutally quashed by Chun Doo-hwan’s regime. Seoul’s authorities flagged it as illegal under Korean law, Valve obliged, and the author ultimately decided to yank it entirely—ending the debate over a worldwide ban.