If this web inquiry turns up dry, you may want to try the “Six Degrees of Separation” approach (aka the Kevin Bacon solution). If there is a college or university where you live, see if there is a Korean Student Union or similar group and contact them. You could also see if there is someone on the faculty like a Korean or Japanese language instructor (it is not uncommon to find Koreans teaching Japanese) or an Asian studies professor who may be of some help. Even if the first person you talk with may have no direct information, they may know of someone who does. You can also see if there is a Korean cultural (or even commerce) organization in your area.

Considering how difficult it has been to find information about this title, don’t get your hopes up too high for an English translation. It’s looking less likely it was licensed by an English language publisher. However, it is possible it has been scanlated by a fan group.

@Dave & Dannicus

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Land of the Wind in 3 books.

Land of the Wind volumes 1-21.

So I don’t know which is which

I just found this place myself, looks like my best lead to ever find the manhwa, and I’d love to read it myself.

Hey thanks! I really appreciate you guys taking the time to help me out! I spent over 10 hours using google, looking through articles and forums. I found squat. I even tried the manga stores (last resort ). I hear a lot of people say “Yeah it’s pretty good”, But they don’t tell me about it.

Anyway I use to play Nexus: Kingdom of the Winds. It was the first MMORPG I ever played in my life around 2000. Two years after it was released in 1998. All I can say was that the few years I played was totally awesome especially with the roleplay and the lore involved. So recently while looking through a forum after maybe four to five years after I stopped playing that MMORPG. I found out that it was actually based on a manhwa by Kim Jin. So this perked my curiosity and made me to find bits and pieces about it. I heard most K-Drama’s you see on tv are some how related to this manhwa. Its suppose to be the best one of all time. It influenced Korean modern culture as well as drama. Right now I feel like it’s the Da Vinci code. I’m finding bits and pieces about it through the internet. I only have some clues that will finally lead me to the holy blood line (Land of the Wind manhwa of course:P ).

But I just would like to thank everyones time and effort in helping me out. I feel blessed to have run into you guys who are helping me find out about this.

-Wontaek, you mention Country of Wind in a comment on this post. Do you know where -Dave can get hooked up with this manhwa?

What little I could find out…Country of the Wind by Kim Jin Historical saga released Feb. 1992 with at least 21 vol.

There is a reader out there by the handle of wontaek who seems to know more about this manhwa. As far as I know, he/she does not have a blog so contacting him/her may be problematic. However, wontaek appears to be a regular reader of many blogs so you may be able to ask him/her in an off-topic post.

I looked as best I could…anyone out there have any clue? Carey, your the manga go to guy for the site, have you heard anything about “Country of Wind” by Kim Jin?

In manga, usually the more an artist draws, the better they get (so I guess that’s the opposite of some anime series lol)

Ah, Megami-sama is one of those manga which was good to start, got mediocre towards the middle, IMO, and is middling good now; and its anime adaptations aren’t any better. the newer series did keep some of the manga storylines… but at the same time, the adaptation was rather more boring than the original source material, again IMO. While it has plenty of characters to pick from, and a lot of storylines to draw on… well, the adaptation fell down.

One of the ones I consider to have been done ‘right’ would have to be Ouran Host Club or Azumanga Daioh; while the latter didn’t exactly have a long coherent storyline (which was reflected in the episodes of the anime, broken up by gags), the anime adaptation stayed fairly faithful to the source material… and Ouran itself made only minor changes and cut out some stories (the main exception to this is the Zuka Club musical episode and the Alice in Wonderland story), but by keeping mostly to the source material it satisfied the manga fan (in me) and kept a lot of the humor which made it popular to start.

Sometimes, they may just keep the characters but take great liberties with the story… and in that case, things work out. The AMG movie’s an example of this – that storyline never showed up anywhere in the manga… but they kept true to the characters, both in characterization as well as actions, and in doing so created a very nice adaptation. Other times… well, we end up with Tsukihime, which while not based on the manga, was pretty much completely different from the source material and its art wasn’t the best… so that suffered.