Overview

• South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee escalated from a regional block in March to a formal global takedown request in mid-June, citing violations of its anti-revisionism laws.
• Valve complied around June 12, delisting “Gwangju Running Man” across all regions despite its typically hands-off moderation approach.
• The total conversion mod rewrote the 1980 pro-democracy Gwangju Uprising to portray protesters as violent rioters and justify the military crackdown by Chun Doo-hwan’s regime.
• Observers note this is the first confirmed case of a government securing a worldwide removal of user-generated Steam content on political grounds.
• Valve has not issued a public statement on the removal, fueling debate over government influence versus platform autonomy in content moderation.