Star Wars on TV in Korea (subbed) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OulPequbwuc
Started looking at the wiki pages for Star Wars in all the different languages.
Chinese : http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
Entry doesn't translate too well. Sounds like there was a 1997 translation. But then a new team did the Episode 1 translation. An organization called Maxwell BBS was involved.
Russian : http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
In the USSR, "Star Wars" was first shown in theaters " Horizon "and" Zaryadye "in the" Days of U.S. films in the USSR "in 1988. In 1990, the fourth episode of "New Hope", and then the other two episodes of the classic trilogy are also shown in the USSR [8] [ unauthoritative citation needed ].
In 1997, Russian distributors refused to purchase "Star Wars. Trilogy. Special Edition "for a wide theatrical distribution [9] .
In the Russian television show was first performed channel RTR ("Russia") in 2002 in mono sound . In 2005-2006, on the First Channel broadcast five episodes of "Star Wars" with stereo sound . Interestingly, this channel would show the film in 1992, but the film was removed from the broadcast as a "pirate" [10] .
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/25726 (1992.10.06)
Sounds like Star Wars was to air on the Ostankino channel but was removed 3 hours before broadcast. I guess they got a copy and were going to air it but hadn't gotten 20th Century Fox's permission and the government stepped in as then that broadcast would be further pirated. Little weird in the translation not sure if it was a film festival or a tv network...
http://www.spade.ru/starwarrior/films/rushistory.htm
Russian page on the history of Star Wars in Russia. Even has pics of the 1988 limited premiere brochure and a 1991 VHS bootleg. Overview of TV/DVD releases: http://www.spade.ru/starwarrior/films/hexalogy.htm
The prequels are dubbed. Not sure when the first three got dubbed, either for the SEs or the DVDs.
Japanese : http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
Theatrical Dub - 1978.06.30 original dub actors
DVD Dub - 2004 new set of dub actors
So this is another case of the Original dub being supplanted.