History Main / ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange

** Names of places will be changed to their equivalents in Korean culture. For example, Tokyo is commonly localized to Seoul, Osaka to Busan, the Tokyo Tower to the Namsan Seoul Tower, Akihabara to Yongsan, and et cetera. Sometimes this even extends to the art: their translation of ''RanmaOneHalf'' redrew Ranma and Akane's kimonos to hanboks in an early festival chapter.

** Names of places will be changed to their equivalents in Korean culture. For example, Tokyo is commonly localized to Seoul, Osaka to Busan, the Tokyo Tower to the Namsan Seoul Tower, Akihabara to Yongsan, and et cetera.

-->-- '''[[Webcomic/AwkwardZombie Katie Tiedrich]]''' on the localization of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games

* ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' does this in its English and foreign dubs, by making it seem like they are in a generic town instead of Japan, yet still showing people driving vehicles on the left side of the road. Many of the {{Dream Episode}}s feature Laura and the hamsters in a feudal Japan setting. The English and Italian dubs tries to pass them as TheWildWest or TheMiddleAges by having the characters refer to eachother with terms such as "sheriff" or "damsel"... but the style of the buildings and the fact that everyone was wearing kimonos made the truth kinda obvious.

* Early in ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective'', there's a shot of Japan seen from space, showing that the cast clearly lives there. Later in the series, Flint and his friends travel back in time and meet Christopher Columbus. When he asks where they are from, they tell him that they're from the United States.

* Early in ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetecive'', there's a shot of Japan seen from space, showing that the cast clearly lives there. Later in the series, Flint and his friends travel back in time and meet Christopher Columbus. When he asks where they are from, they tell him that they're from the United States.

* A RunningGag in ''Series/FawltyTowers'' was the put-upon Spanish waiter Manuel, a ButtMonkey burdened neither with brains nor a working command of English. Basil Fawlty frequently apologised for his employee with the words "He's from Barcelona, you know." Come the Spanish dub of the show. In which Manuel became a thick, dumb, ''Italian''.
** The French and Catalan Spanish dubs make him a Mexican, The German remake turned Manuel into a thick Russian called Igor.

* ''[[VideoGame/ClockTower Clock Tower: Ghost Hand]]'' attempted to do this by changing the setting from Osaka to San Francisco and Americanizing the character names, despite the fact that everything else in the game was left intact. Not only is the first house you explore ''very'' Japanese influenced, Japanese Kanji can frequently be seen on many different areas throughout the game.