What cultural theme is Mu Lung?

Well obviously Mu Lung is an asian themed area but what culture is Mu Lung exactly? To me, it's like a chinese themed area with Koreanish named NPCs and now I'm seriously confused after hearing the MLPQ bgm which sounds more chineseish.

I think it's chinese and that Nexon are idiots with naming NPCs.

Mu Lung is actually really strongly Korean themed. Just that they had similar building style as China, they are still not to be confused with each other. In some versions, Mu Lung is called "The Herb Sanctury".

Mu Lung, as far as I know, is Korean.

I'm Chinese; I know quite a bit about my country and Mu Lung resembles nothing I know. Probably Korean.

I always thought it was Chinese, interesting to discover that it isn't

There's already KFT....so I'll give this one to China just to be fair.

Pandas are China's most treasured national animal. Also seeing how the movie Kung Fu Panda was what I believe to be Chinese inspired and has the character Tae Roon as the villain very similar to the quests here in MS, I'd like to think that Nexon intended Mu Lung to have a Chinese cultural theme to it.

I myself think Mu Lung is based off of a stereotypical view of "Ancient China".
Nexon just got drunk with naming the monsters/NPCs.

Mu Lung is actually really strongly Korean themed. Just that they had similar building style as China, they are still not to be confused with each other. In some versions, Mu Lung is called "The Herb Sanctury".

"The Herb Sanctuary" is the place located under Mu Lung. Y'know, where the bellflower roots and the pirates are. Aptly named...Herb...town

I think KFT is more of the korean-based area. I heard somewhere that the monsters and setting in KFT is based off actual korean folklore stories or something.

I think it's chinese and that Nexon are idiots with naming NPCs.

I thought "Mr. cantsee shim" in KFT was pretty funny. o_o

Just from googling Ancient China and Ancient Korea, I saw many similarities in architecture. Not to mention, they are geographically right next to each other. So each would share similar animals and landscapes.
My guess is that it is based off of Korea because KMS made Mu Lung. What purpose would they have for making a China based area?

they make every area, the others just make ideas and distribute i think(feel free to correct me)

Can't it just have an asian theme? ;o

Yea I know, it's kinda strange how the npc names along with some aspects of the background is so koreanish whereas the buildings and the NPC resemble china. Now I'm utterly bamboozled :f6:....

but arent pandas are native species of china. if it was korean then wtp lol.

It's more China themed if you ask me... the only thing I can see that it's Korean is the NPC names...

I was just thinking about this earlier today, lol.

Maybe the NPC names were transliterated from Chinese to Korean to English? or KMS was lazy and gave them Korean names.

Fact is unless I'm seriously missing something, there is no Chinese character whose sound resembles 'lung'.

Well, there's this item http://global.hidden-street.net/items/qu...llbeginner that's a scroll borrowed by KFT's God of Mountains from Do Gong of Mu Lung. The description says, among other things, that on the cover of the scroll is "the number 1 written in Chinese".

Well, there's this item http://global.hidden-street.net/items/qu...llbeginner that's a scroll borrowed by KFT's God of Mountains from Do Gong of Mu Lung. The description says, among other things, that on the cover of the scroll is "the number 1 written in Chinese".

In case you don't know, a lot of old Korean documents are recorded in Chinese characters in the Idu writing system, that's how a lot of Korean words today sounds Chinese because they borrowed the characters.

If you guys can't tell the difference, the NPC are wearing Korean style clothes.

I was just thinking about this earlier today, lol.

Maybe the NPC names were transliterated from Chinese to Korean to English? or KMS was lazy and gave them Korean names.

Fact is unless I'm seriously missing something, there is no Chinese character whose sound resembles 'lung'.

Lang (waves; wolf; and other words with the same Pinyin) pronounced with proper Chinese/Pinyin ways will sound like the English way of pronouncing Lung.