Public Service Motivation has gained traction among public administration scholars ever since Perry provided a measurement scale to account for the motivation profile of public service employees. However, the PSM as we know it today is primarily the product of western scholarship with its application and research being restricted to developed nations. It has been until recently that its application as a motivating factor has been studied on the public servants of non-western nation states, that too in the countries constituting East Asia. The aim of this paper is to provide for a review of PSM with an emphasis on the role that culture and values of a nation play in shaping the outlook of its public service employees, particularly with respect to their service delivery as agents of the state.