They don't. Immigrants from nations outside of east asia also produce strong results when their numbers are limited to the elite.
Nigerian immigrants do fantastically well in Western nations even though Nigeria and China are worlds apart culturally. Indians shouldn't even be grouped with Koreans as "asian", they have nothing in common culturally and their own national education systems are polar opposites, yet the Indian elite performs just as well here as the Korean elite. Australian and South African immigrants do very very well too, even though you'd never confuse their national cultures or governments for Japanese.
In every country that has a strong national elite, where that elite is the main one that immigrates, their immigrants do well.
Of course, there are other nations where the immigrant populations are much more diverse and actually represent the bulk of their home populations - Laotians, Cambodians, Samoans, Somalis, Sudanese, Haitians, and virtually all of Latin America. And - big surprise - those groups are all seen as "low achieving" compared to the "model minority" populations that are made up of a mix of hand-picked and self-selected elites. Back in the day the same was true of virtually every White population that imported primarily laborers - Irish, Eastern Europeans, even the Germans and Chinese were all seen as intellectually inferior when refugees and laborers were the main ones coming in.
I won't deny that you can build a pro-education culture. And if your community promotes education that will be helpful for producing academic results (though if it does it in the wrong manner for the wrong reasons, it will often cause new problems). The issue is that those cultural arguments don't explain the vast majority of the discrepancies we see. India, Indonesia, and the Philippines have famously AWFUL education systems, among the very worst of any middle-income nations. Thailand is only marginally better. Yet here they're all seen as "model minorities" and their educational culture is raved about. It's pure ignorance that becomes obvious once you educate yourself on their systems and education history.
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for standardized tests and tiered schooling systems even when they clearly disadvantage black children. Not to mention your support for police state, mass incarceration, landlord evictions, and rich people in general. We clearly have different allegiances and are fighting for different communities. 
