South Korea is a funny country and anyone claiming the West could never share characteristics with it full of shit because that's what South Korea is. In 1900, Seoul was literally mud-huts
South Korea only became first world and not a shithole in the second half of the 20th century as huge amounts of US aid flooded in under their dictatorship. South Korea has since become like a little chinky America. South Korea has more male circumsisions than births, the country is controlled by weird cults, there's retarded evangelical Christians running around everywhere, people work ungodly hours wageslaving at western-style corporations and their popular culture and music (look at kpop) is the most Americanised shit ever, plastic, high production value for the sake of showing off flashy shit, completely commercialised, horrible working conditions for celebrities who sell half off sex appeal, half off status and glam, whose lives are controlled by celebrity handlers. South Korea is a little chinky USA on steroids just like North Korea is a little chinky racist USSR on steroids.
Also Japanese society has been buck-broken by America/the West too. Their constitution is modelled on the American one, their economy shit the bed in the 1990s with the US manufacturing the collapse behind the scenes and the Japanese allowing it, they're basically a US satrapy as well.