Hahaha yeah. Pretty much the same reaction I had to that quest. On Korean version they don't have the skill book npc so the reward might actually be nice for them over there. The reward needs to be changed for this version.

A somewhat independent issue is them botting on multiple clients to sell gold / ruining the economy.

It's a problem. When you consider how much experience they have due to playing the game for a long time, on top of how many of them there are. I would say there are easily 5 times the korean pop vs english. Just look at the rankings - and they are starting to pvp non-koreans out of high level mob areas. This game release is basically just a new Korean server, but with a side dish of global players learning the game for them to snack on. The global release will not be successful is this continues.