Welcome to the forum, PRSnewb, and so sorry about the damage to your SE. In my experience, that's definitely not the norm for anything PRS but, hey, stuff does happen, right?
I own three Korean SEs, and they are absolutely fine guitars, pretty much right up there with just about anything else I own, with no apologies whenever I play them: a great ZM with Duncan Antiquities, a
magical older Santana, and a nicely fat and snarling CU22 Semi I'd purposely bought in order to swap the pickups with some Duncans I own. (Nope. Not gonna happen!) Anyway, the *only* issue I've ever had with any of them is (as noted earlier upstream) that the 3-way PU toggles will occasionally crap out, intermittently enough that I did eventually decide to have one consistent repeat offender replaced on the Santana, although they'd each still
usually be
mostly workable. (If I were currently gigging any of them, I would definitely have all those 3-ways replaced, though.)
I also own two S2s, a Reclaimed Vela Semi and a Studio 22 model (the HSS with a 5-way blade switch); the Reclaimed Vela uses (unless I'm mistaken) the same 3-way (SE) toggle that my MIK SEs utilize, and it's also been not quite 100% reliable. IME, the Korean 3-way toggles simply aren't up to the usual PRS reputation for quality... and THAT is my only negative criticism of the MIK SEs. IME and IMO, of course.
Honestly, I haven't gotten around to trying any Indonesian PRSes, but I do own three Indonesian Yamahas—a Revstar 502 and two upper-end 600-level Pacificas. Zero issues, great guitars all, save for cheaper-
feeling push-pulls on the two more recent ones—but they still function flawlessly and they all play and sound fantastic. There's also my Indonesian Ibanez AZ242 Premium that is super high-quality all around, too. Anyway, going by my experience here, I'd
generally assume that Indonesian quality can and should be assumed as being very good-to-excellent, although yeah, stuff does obviously happen. Again, all IME and IMO.
My (ahem) several Core PRSes have *zero* issues, and I would simply recommend to the OP to just get a Core and skip the try-and-see-up-the-ladder approach. You won't be sorry. My 2¢.