Confucian cultural sphere. Everything is more heavily regimented and has more explicit and more rules-governed social hierarchies than in the West.
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the fluid and implicit nature of Western cultural "rules" shows up quite a lot in our dramas though. RomComs and Soap Operas are basically devoted to exploring the cognitive dissonances created by our confusing and heavily unspoken/implicit system.
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It seems like we have the same conception. You noted there are more _explicit_ rules in, say, Japan (e.g., the senpai-kohai system). My contention is that this type of explicit rule makes it possible to create almost-ritualized drama, with satisfying tropes, etc.
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(As to RomComs and Soap Operas, right on! We have different forms of art which reflect different social norms -- tropes follow rules.)
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What's the line between implicit and explicit here?
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It's fuzzy and context dependent. But for example there is nothing like keigo in English.
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I'm not too familiar with the concept. Is it comparable formal/informal distinction in Spanish or Russian or is it a more involved system?
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More involved, there is a whole different system, distinct from formal/informal, for expressing various levels of social closeness, supplication, etc. (Diff. verbs & conjugations, etc.)
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