/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15550021
Not that anon but you're not taking into account different goals and circumstances here.

China isn't interested in intellectual trinkets given out by Europeans. They're interested in economically and militarily dominating them. Hence why they were willing to blood trade over half their entire population to cheap unsafe labor to become economic "engine" of the world. Hence why they will just copy and steal your intellectual properties to make their own versions of it instead of wasting time to do the extra work.

Japan was the one interested in participating in the dog and pony show for those trinkets. Partly to become as socially and economically competent as European countries and partly to show off in front of the rest of East Asia. Meanwhile Korea (South Korea particularly) is still trying to get their bearings from being split in half and maintaining economic relevance in the face of China and Japan.

There's also the fact that recently nobel prizes are mostly focused on a few subjects. South Korea is mostly focus on manufacturing and telecommunications. Neither of those make the top 5 and barely the top 36.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234612

>Five domains (particle physics [14%], cell biology [12.1%], atomic physics [10.9%], neuroscience [10.1%], molecular chemistry [5.3%]) have the lion’s share, accounting in total for 52.4% of the 69 Nobel prizes that we mapped, even though these 5 domains publish only 10.2% of all the Scopus-indexed papers.