Cultures influenced by Taoism see wealth creation in changing processes. You are right that east Asian values fail to conform to the way you define values. I suggest you change your definition. Asian leaders are not anthropologists when they ask you to respect Asian values, this is simply a plea for you to consider how they think differently. East Asians have learned rapidly from us, but we have been much slower to learn from them.
Waves mingle aesthetically.
Some of what South Korea has learned from the west is dysfunctional. It has been in the front line of hot and cold wars for nearly half a century. When we measure confrontation versus consensus South Korea scores with western nations, not with east Asian ones. For similar reasons Japanese employers fell out with their unions immediately after the US occupation, before reverting to Japanese patterns. I agree that Protestant and Victorian values have nothing to do with east Asian success.