I lived in Korea in 2008-2010 and can confirm the ActiveX thing was still in widespread use then. It was a pain because every website effectively only worked in

I lived in Korea in 2008-2010 and can confirm the ActiveX thing was still in widespread use then. It was a pain because every website effectively only worked in IE, meanwhile I had a Mac and couldn't log into any secure websites such as my local bank account from it.