A Chinese girl I used to date refered to Koreas as being "weird". Which I can see. I look at Hyuna for example and she does look weird to me. Very unnatural. South Korean society seems just as superficial as ours, especially their version of Hollywood. Perhaps even more so.
Though I do find a lot of North-East Asian (China, Korea, Japan) women obsess about their looks. The Chinese girl above said her eyes were always too small and she was fat. She did have small eyes, but she was hardly fat. I thought she was beautiful. A lot of them talk like they're a used up old hag if they're not married by 25. There's still a lot of sexism in those societies. Things will change, slowly.
Do you know by any chance how the Japanese are viewed in the Asian culture?
I knew in WW2 the Japanese considered themselves more Western and a step above all the other Asian cultures at the time. Does the same hold true now?