Shining under fire?

Over at HCG101 they have a new article about the history of Korean gaming. It's always been an interesting topic, mainly because there is so little information about it on the English speaking internets. The article unfortunately confirms that Korean gaming has pretty much always sucked, and the industry seems quite dead-set on staying on PC's and churning out MMO's. That said, the most interesting Korean companies are Phantagram, and its one time subsidiary, Blueside. The two are primarily known for developing the Kingdom Under Fire series, originally for PC's and eventually moving it to Xbox, with the "encouragement" of Microsoft. Unlike their countrymen, these two, and specifically Blueside seem to be gravitating more and more towards the Japanese console gaming mold. I'm down with that. Korea always had enough talent and potential to blow Japan out of the water in terms of media creation, but they've always took a purely technical supportive role, happily creating content for other countries media companies, who took advantage of the exchange rates to get cheap, talented labor. Japan, for one, has been outsourcing anime production to Korea for decades. To that end, there was a new vapid looking DS RPG announced over in Japan, which looks to be solely developed by Blueside, with the unfortunate moniker of Shining Legend. (Unless this is a stealth SEGA project, I think I hear the lawyers sharpening their pitchforks.) While no screenshots have been made available, I for one hope this one is the final form of Princess And Knight, and that it's still as nice looking as those old shots. 2D KUF? Hell's yeah!