When it comes to Eastern animation, Japan is easily without a single doubt, the most popular, well-known, and mainstream of them all and their impact and influence on the West and the rest of the world's pop culture is simply vast and countless. But what about China and South Korea?
Being of Asian descent myself living in a diasporic community and even travelling to places like Taiwan every so often, I can easily spot a large number of Chinese-created animation as much as I can for Anime or Japanese-produced animation wherever pan-Asian visual media is available. And I must say, they can be pretty interesting and decent or even fairly beautiful in their own right (depending on which Chinese-speaking country it was made in), but most of them only feel somewhat lukewarm or mediocre at best compared to the best of what Nippon has to offer in my opinion.
And just now, when I was reading the tvtropes page: "Americans Hate Tingle", I looked under the Asian animation section and found that Chinese animation like Pleasant Goat Goat and Bad Wolf, and Korean animation are popular in their respective home countries, but are "hated" and ignored in Western countries like the United States and that it has "barely any fans" in that part of the world. I wonder what are the reasons.
I know that Chinese and Korean animation (unless co-produced by Japan) are usually nowhere near as popular and loved as Japanese animation (and their country's other popular media like K-Pop or K-Drama) and are typically very obscure in the West compared to the latter, what do people in the West truly think of them if they ever saw it appear in front of their eyes? Has anyone here had any experiences with Chinese, Korean, or non-Anime/non-Japanese Asian animation?