How famous is South Korea compared to China around the world?

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In Far East Asia, everything was determined by USA, China, and North Korea. There is no South Korea. South Korea is just a group of uncontrolled persons in the crowd running away.　President Moon plays the clown out of place.

South Korea is just a copy producer of phone, TV, and automobile.

There is no originality.

South Korea isn't prominent.  China is the biggest population worldwide.

It's not a matter of "fame".  Both countries are known to most people, largely because they engage in a fair amount of trade with other nations.  Countries that do that all tend to be well known to people in OTHER countries.

South Korea's not some obscure little pocket Asian nation like Bhutan, and it's not some still relatively poor and agrarian nation like Laos. It's an advanced, first-world economy, so of course it's well known.