Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Mooshu – Binh Hoa

Binh Hoa – The Bình Hòa Massacre? or a Flower Pot?
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Binh_Hoa#ixzz7czgSHeyp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%ACnh_H%C3%B2a_massacre

Binh Hoa

He is the apprentice to Hakaru Yip. He needs help after eating poisonous berries.

I want to go on record that this reference was brought to my attention by at least three different people. Everyone suggested this might be the reference. While researching, I discovered the translation. Now which was meant by the W101 writers is unclear. I’ll let you decide.

The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam. In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans.

Memorial of Binh Hoa Massacre

Binh Hoa is also a Vietnamese term which translated into English means flower pot.

The current list of all the (known) Mooshu references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Binh Hoa image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Binh Hoa Massacre Memorial photo is borrowed from Wikipedia. The original author is Song, Pilkyeong. Representative of Medics for Vietnam. Song approves to use this file under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

Flower pot image is from this Vietnamese commercial website
https://gomsubattrang.vn/mua-lo-hoa-dep-o-ha-noi-ve-lien-hoa.html

Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

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