The Korean culture has a strong tendency towards sycophancy, thanks to their authoritarian past, their reinforcing nature of the language, the reduced level of literacy (compared to their own past), and an overt desire for social cohesion that touches on irrationality prompted by proclivity to fit in with their cliques. Independent or critical thought is discouraged (e.g. in context of church, “doctrine is bad”), and even those who give lip service to it constantly suppress it in their own circles as much as they can. You find vestiges of this in other ethnic cultures, too, but extremities of this is often seen in Korean churches, and other institutions filled with Koreans. They are one of the easiest people groups for Machivellians to manipulate and control. Go to any Korean church that has a long record of driving independent thinkers out–for over trivial issues and never doctrinal–while boasting about the credentials of their own chieftain–typically, an overgrown mamaboy–or any political party that seems to idolize their own leader. North Korea is probably a sommet, but for more recent example, just trace their presidential election campaign of 2025. You see examples everywhere in Korean culture.