I was born and raised in South Korea, and I have multiple years' worth of work experience in my home country. While I do agree that this argument could most def

I was born and raised in South Korea, and I have multiple years' worth of work experience in my home country. While I do agree that this argument could most definitely go both ways, I do think that 67% of workers opting to stay longer goes on to show just how prevalent the concept of "face-timing" at work really is in my country, regardless of which profession you work in. I can personally attest to many nights - more than majority of my work days, in fact - where I've found myself and my teammates working (or pretending to, at least) late into the night, just because my manager gave no signs of leaving anytime soon. Unlike here in the States, individualism is not a value that society values; rather, it's essentially frowned upon. Confucianism manifests itself in modern society by being extended into the workplace; the idea of "we're all in this together" is almost forced upon workers, even in situations where it's clearly more of an individual thing. When your manager is working up until 10PM, I don't think a lot of Koreans would find it easy to leave work at 7PM, even when the work that's been allocated to her/him has been done.