I really hated this 
Khadanyang just sounds weird
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I’m not sure if they decided to change the name of the country, or if they just made a mistake in Olivia’s lines. But khandanyang was used more before, and khadanyang was used only once, right?
Well Olivia says Khadanyang, as do her subtitles, and Hush’s in-game intel. So there’s 2 plausible choices, a matter of which is cause and which is effect
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The voice actually made a mistake pronouncing a fake countries name and by the time IO noticed it it was too late and they had to roll with the new spelling
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IO themselves made a conscious decision to change it… For some reason
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misread. Sorry.
To be honest, I don’t think both of them sounds like Korean when I listen to it, but I think Khandanyang is much better.
Hmm and
Dan-yang sounds like a Korean region name or somethings korean name borrowed from the Chinese alphabet, but kha or Khan is little awkward
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Both “Khandanyang” and “Khadanyang” sound equally weird lol. I’m guessing it’s a mistake anyways, but they have virtually no difference .
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Thanks for your input on that guys! So, to sum up, both versions are equally weird but viable, yet Khandanyang would sound more appealing to most of us.
Apparently Kha(n)danyang is such a secretive country that no one is even sure about its exact name 
Either that, or the writers at IO should really make up their bloody minds 
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I’m sure IO didn’t intend it but my headcanon shall be that much like Japan can be Nippon or Nihon that both spellings of Khadanyang and Khandanyang are correct 
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If the (late) president of Turkmenistan can rename the concept of bread after his mother, I see no problem with a fellow Asian dictatorship having two slightly different spellings of its name.
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As much as I´m allergic to the inconsistency, I like your thinking and will try to convince my headcanon to operate in the same manner 
That would actually be a completely plausible explanation. The name of the country is whatever the Heavenly Leader decides it to be at the moment. Thinking otherwise will subject you to “reeducation”:
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I’d kill to see an in-game news segment where Pam Kingsley talks about the change in spelling and quotes Jin Po as saying something about the n in Khandanyang throwing off the aesthetic harmony of of their glorious nation’s name and he has thus decided to he’s changing it.
(Also because this has got me going down a yet another google rabbit hole: My other favorite wacky Asian despot story is the time the then-leader of Burma misinterpreted his astrologer trying to sway him away from communism, and ordered that they change what side of the road they drive on because of looming bad luck)
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My god, that would be absolutely golden 
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Bumping the thread for two reasons. Firstly, to re-upload the Khandanyang flag design made by MSMPlayz (who has since unfortunately left us) so that it remains preserved here, as I think it would be a shame to lose it:
Secondly, I´ve just randomly happened to finally figure out where he took that flower design from It´s a plum flower, the seal of the former Korean Empire (and the ruling Yi dynasty):
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Hey everyone,
I might have found the location of Khandanyang.
In the mission briefing for the Hokkaido level in the Patient Zero campaign, there’s a map. On it, a large piece of land appears to be outlined and marked somewhere along the northeastern border of China. IO has labeled a city on it, which could be the capital, but the image quality is too blurry to tell for sure.
I don’t think Khandanyang is a stand-in for North Korea. In the Elusive Target “The Gunrunner,” it’s mentioned that he smuggled underwater missile launch systems in Pyongyang. If Khandanyang were meant to replace North Korea, Pyongyang wouldn’t still exist as a separate location in the same universe. So Khandanyang is not a substitute for North Korea.
Let me know what you guys think!
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Not a substitute in the sense that North Korea no longer exists, but a substitute in the sense that, whenever an authoritarian dictator ship that reveres its leader its leader in a manner of being almost divine while carrying out crimes against humanity, IOI has created Khandanyang to use instead of North Korea so as not to piss then off. We know North Korea exists in this world from the original bio of the Fugitive Elusive Target.
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