On a completely unrelated note, my concept of Korea is South Korea and had totally forgotten that the Korean peninsula is actually attached to China while Japan is not (Japan being isolated I know).
You know, I hate it when authors put notes in their first few chapters that says "Hey! This part might be dry for you, go to xx chapters for the action!"
Also, I finally find my cursing to be odd. "halfnugget fuckwit" sounds fine until you swapped the butchered words around. Halfwit makes sense, but what is Fucknugget?