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Regional edition

East Asia

Three Countries, Three Technology Cultures. Japan, Korea, and China Chose Differently.

Japan is 81% WordPress. Korea is 58% — Angular and Vue dominate enterprise. China built on Vue because Evan You spoke their language. Culture shaped infrastructure.

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East Asia data

Japan modern adoption

Source: WebPulse Common Crawl WARC scan. 7,229 .jp sites analyzed. 81% WordPress — highest in developed Asia.

17.0%

South Korea modern adoption

Source: WebPulse WARC scan. 551 .kr sites. Angular (20%) and Vue (13%) — enterprise JS frameworks dominate.

43.4%

China Vue ecosystem

Source: WebPulse WARC scan. 1,168 .cn sites. Vue.js + Nuxt.js uniquely strong — cultural technology adoption.

19.1% modern

Japan IT spending

Source: IDC Japan. Third-largest IT market globally. Massive legacy infrastructure investment.

$150B+ annually

Korean chaebol digital investment

Source: Korean government digital transformation reports. Samsung, LG, Hyundai driving enterprise framework choices.

$30B+ annually

What we see in East Asia

Japan at 81% WordPress is surprising for the world's third-largest economy. The explanation: Japan's web development culture is agency-driven, not startup-driven. Agencies standardized on WordPress in 2010 and never moved.

South Korea is the most diverse framework market in Asia. Chaebols (Samsung, LG, Hyundai, SK) drove Angular adoption for enterprise portals. The 43.4% modern rate is the highest in East Asia — corporate governance shaped technology choices.

China's Vue.js adoption is a case study in cultural technology adoption. Evan You (Vue's creator) is Chinese-American. Vue's documentation was Chinese-first. Alibaba, Baidu, and Xiaomi adopted it early. The framework won on cultural access, not technical benchmarks.

The East Asian pattern inverts the global one: Korea's corporate culture produced more modern adoption than Japan's agency culture or China's platform culture. Enterprise governance drove better infrastructure choices than market forces alone.

Country-level scan data

Same region. Different digital realities.

3 countries analyzed from our scan data. The gap within regions is wider than the gap between them.

🇰🇷 South Korea

43%

56%

43% mod

🇨🇳 China

19%

80%

19% mod

🇯🇵 Japan

17%

83%

17% mod

Modern

Legacy

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43%

modern

South Korea

551 sites analyzed

WordPress Angular Vue.js

🇨🇳

19%

modern

China

1,168 sites analyzed

WordPress Nuxt.js Next.js

🇯🇵

17%

modern

Japan

7,229 sites analyzed

WordPress Shopify Next.js

East Asia compliance landscape

APPI (Japan)

Act on Protection of Personal Information. Amended 2022 with stricter requirements. Legacy infrastructure complicates data subject rights implementation.

PIPA (South Korea)

Personal Information Protection Act. Among the strictest in Asia. Enterprise-grade framework choices align with compliance requirements.

PIPL (China)

Personal Information Protection Law. China's GDPR equivalent. Data localization requirements add infrastructure complexity.

Cybersecurity Law (China)

Critical information infrastructure protection. Framework choices affect compliance posture for operators in scope.

Industries in East Asia

Financial Services Manufacturing Retail & E-commerce Telecommunications Government

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