Based on this, I can say I think that Korea may be worse: * Many websites, especially government ones, require Active X. You might need to dust off that IE6 in

Based on this, I can say I think that Korea may be worse: * Many websites, especially government ones, require Active X. You might need to dust off that IE6 installation file. * In lieu of Active X, some sites require you to download and install their own proprietary "security" program; what it does, I don't think anybody really knows * Like you describe Japan, lots of Korean text is embedded in an image * Many sites try to prevent users from right clicking or copying text, for "security" of course * The eCommerce site I used had quality issues similar to Ali Express. Listings could be anything, a seller could list a baseball bat, a cell phone and a watermelon on the same page. Sellers would play this trick of having at least 2 variations of a product, one being a very low price and also conveniently out of stock all the time, this would ensure it showed up when you sort products by lowest price first, but it was impossible to ever get it for that price. When I was there a year or so ago it was getting better. Hopefully it's mostly fixed by now. On the bright side the internet is really fast and cheap.