For years, the MBC dub was considered "lost media." The original master tapes were rumored to have been wiped by the station to save space. Only fan-recorded VHS rips from 1997, grainy and riddled with tracking errors, kept the dub alive on Korean torrent sites under the codename
The Evangelion Korean dub refers to the South Korean language dub of the popular Japanese anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and its related works, including movies and rebuild films. Here's some information about it: evangelion korean dub
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In the original script, the "Second Impact" is caused by an experiment in Antarctica. In the Korean dub, any visual or textual reference to "Japan" as a political entity was scrubbed. NERV's origins were altered to be a generic "United Nations" project. Furthermore, conversations regarding the Pacific War (which are a heavy subtext in Eva) were sometimes paraphrased to remove specific historical locations. Evangelion Korean Dub — Overview "MBC-EVA-97
For purists, this is jarring. For Korean fans in the 90s, this made the characters feel "local." They weren't foreign Japanese pilots; they were Korean kids stuck in a terrible situation. Shinji (Han Shin-ho) voiced by Kim Hwan-jin: Kim
