South Korea's science happens in the private sector, and it is exceptional. Samsung could build you an automated antipersonnel gun turret in 2003, now they're c

South Korea's science happens in the private sector, and it is exceptional. Samsung could build you an automated antipersonnel gun turret in 2003, now they're competing directly with Intel on semiconductor process. As for Japan, I'd chock it up to demographics, and a general sense that things are already pretty great. China, on the other hand, has a problem of culture in their way.