coz most SEA are a 3rd world countries, remember how normal it is for koreans worship their elites/chaebols, classism is strong in their culture
even on the webtoon 'this is the law', mc in there is a lawyer (if i remember it right), there's an arc that happened in the philippines, there's a small scene where other koreans got into trouble and his immediate solution to the problem is to bribe the filipino officers, and ofc the officers are happy to receive the money and let them go

I'm annoyed that makes Philippine representation is like this but I can't blame people coz a lot of shitty people exist here and not even those inside the gang but even normal ones. Like, sure, there could be good ones but agaiwbxkwndks