Hahah yeah S.Koreans are the main characters of their own world! I see a lot of themes in these comics where they are talking about, like... "playing on the same board as America" and I think its because of things like the IMF crisis that happened in 1997. A lot of Korean media is influenced by America now, so they are picking up similar themes of "one hero/country to save everyone else" bc that is how America portrays itself to countries it injects capitalism into !
Most countries do this to some extend though. America is just one of the outliers who does it way more than most other countries.
Yes, as every country is their own main character, but I did specifically mean the theme of competing with America to be "the #1 savior of the world" I see a lot in S.Korean dungeon manhwas
I noticed that in level up webtoons korea always become the saviour of other countries lol I guess it makes sense