This could be totally wrong, but here is my memory:
The Korean lockout is a remnant of the DDOS attacks of ~2005, which were thought to be initiated by a Korean bot net after Japan made a very insensitive comment about the Japanese occupation of Korea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule)
Thats practically dealing with pre WWII issues it has a couple dates after 1945 but they just talk about a little bit of business blah blah and what not.. I don't think this has anything to do with SqEnix .. I may have over looked something but doubt this is related