To be fair, the ActiveX encryption requirement only applied to domestic credit cards. If you were paying by foreign-issued credit card --- even if you were buyi

To be fair, the ActiveX encryption requirement only applied to domestic credit cards. If you were paying by foreign-issued credit card --- even if you were buying stuff from a Korean shop for delivery within Korea --- it was perfectly legal for the merchant to skip the ActiveX junk (and resident registration number verification, the other major nightmare for foreigners) and just use good old https. Unfortunately, few ever bothered. Kyobo Books deserves some props at this point for getting this working early --- ordered stuff from them at Christmas with a foreign credit card and foreign billing address, and everything worked perfectly. Their competitors like Aladdin and Yes24 deserve a collective smack upside the head.