haha, that was pretty funny

Korean culture? You mean playing Starcraft till we keel over and watching inferior animation?

As much as I like Japanese culture I also like Chinese culture since I'm a pretty huge fan of martial arts films and I also thing that Korean culture is pretty cool.

The Host is still one of my favorite films of this decade and that was made by Koreans. It only cost $11 million to make and is better then a lot of western movies that have/had a $100 million or higher budget.

If you want to watch another good Korean movie, check out Oldboy, one of my favourites.

I heard a lot of good things about it and its on my list of movies I want too watch that I haven't seen yet.

That also applies to several hundred Western films that cost less than $11 million to make.

@rocketpig That's true their are many western films that cost less then $25 million to make that I enjoyed a lot more then most big budget movies also. Like any movie that was directed by Clint Eastwood, Glory, Borat, Superbad, Slumdog Millionaire, American History X, Fargo, Reservoir Dogs etc. etc.

A few cheaply-made American movies as of late:

Obsessed - $20m
Paul Blart: Mall Cop - $26m
Gran Torino - $33m
Slumdog Millionaire - $15m
The Wrestler - $6m

And my favorite: Fireproof
$500,000 budget. $33.4m box office cume, and massive DVD sales.

There are plenty of non-blockbuster movies made in the US on the cheap. Once Upon a Time in Mexico was a great example - $29m budget with a big-name cast.

Differences in culture and curiosity for anime. On a deeper note, WWII and the aftermath thereof. Both Japan and SK are Americanized but the Japanese have a different mindset to outside countries of influence.