<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="gmail-row gmail-sqs-row" id="gmail-yui_3_17_2_1_1763342096355_142" style="margin-right: -17px; width: auto;"><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><font size="6">Korean Folklore and Mythology in Tabletop RPGs: Minki Lee and Nine Heavens Press</font></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; 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font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4">Registration: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jG0iCVMwReG-xktk-_nNTQ">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jG0iCVMwReG-xktk-_nNTQ</a></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Please join Chos\u014fn History Society for an online conversation with Minki Lee, the lead writer and project manager of Nine Heavens Press, which has published two East Asian and Korean folkore-inspired tabletop RPGs, <i>Undying Corruption</i> and <i>The Black Market Guide to Immortality.</i> Nine Heavens Press represents a group of Korean and Asian diaspora creators with experience in the animation, game, and comics industries.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nine-heavens-press/black-market-guide-to-immortality-a-5e-pf2e-sourcebook"></a><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><i>The Black Market Guide to Immortality</i> is a 5e/Pathfinder 2e sourcebook focusing on the gods of the Iseung region and the pursuit of godhood and immortality by cultivators. It delves into both elements from the cultivation genre of fantasy and the spiritual values and workings of the world. (For more information: <a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nine-heavens-press/black-market-guide-to-immortality-a-5e-pf2e-sourcebook">https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nine-heavens-press/black-market-guide-to-immortality-a-5e-pf2e-sourcebook</a>)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><i>Undying Corruption</i>, which was launched in 2023, is a 5e adventure path book. Players take the role of exorcists who must uncover a frightful conspiracy at the heart of the fantasy realm of Danguk, a country based on Korean folklore and history. Its creators drew on deep research and personal experience into Korean native mythology and shamanism (a 3000 year old religion) to build this unique adventure. (For more information: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nineheavenspress/undying-corruption-a-korean-5e-adventure">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nineheavenspress/undying-corruption-a-korean-5e-adventure</a>)</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><font size="4">Featuring:</font></b></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4">Speaker: Minki Kim</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Minki Kim acts as project manager and head writer for Nine Heavens Press, a TTRPG publishing circle focusing on storytelling inspired by East Asian folklore. Nine Heavens Press has successfully printed its first 5e campaign book, <i>Undying Corruption</i>, and has crowdfunded its second, <i>The Black Market Guide to Immortality</i>.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><font size="4">Moderator: Sixiang Wang</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Sixiang Wang is a faculty member in UCLA's Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He teaches courses on traditional Korean culture and premodern history.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Discussions will cover the cultural and historical inspirations for the gameplay and artwork in <i>The Black Market</i> and <i>Undying Corruption</i>, the creative and research process involved in creating these two projects, and the creators' motivations for integrating Korea and East Asian-themed content into table-top gaming. We will also hear about potential future projects from Nine Heavens Press.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Source: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nineheavenspress/undying-corruption-a-korean-5e-adventure">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nineheavenspress/undying-corruption-a-korean-5e-adventure</a></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br></p></div><div class="gmail-row gmail-sqs-row" id="gmail-yui_3_17_2_1_1763342096355_142" style="width: auto;"><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">\u200b<a href="https://www.chosonhistorysociety.org/">https://www.chosonhistorysociety.org/</a></p></div><div class="gmail-row gmail-sqs-row" id="gmail-yui_3_17_2_1_1763342096355_142" style="margin-right: -17px; width: auto;">\u200b</div></body></html>