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Another memory from the terrible South Korean Internet is how the national banks required customers to log in using Internet Explorer because of mandatory Activ
by nayuki 2y ago
Another memory from the terrible South Korean Internet is how the national banks required customers to log in using Internet Explorer because of mandatory ActiveX blobs of code.
- TheRoque 2y agoThey have such weird constraints. Even Coupang Play refuses to load their video when I'm on Linux, which makes no sense at all.
- lifthrasiir 2y agoIt makes me sad that all of these started with US's restriction on the export of cryptography, which prompted South Korea (among others) to develop a domestic algorithm that was unsupported by contemporary browsers at that time.
- quanto 2y agoThe US export restriction applied to other countries as well. The question is what has made Korean internet uniquely bad.
- lifthrasiir 2y agoI think the answer itself is clear to me: SK bit the bullet much earlier than most other countries, having implemented a nationwide ADSL infrastructure by circa 2000. The same thing happened to Japan for example, where early mobile services were so successful that they essentially stagnated further development until SoftBank's introduction of iPhone.
- rfoo 2y agoIt wasn't unique to Korean. 15-20 years ago Chinese banking website did exactly same things. Maybe they got the idea from SK, don't know. It only ended with widespread adoption of mobile phones and Chrome.
- seoulmetro 2y agoOne guy who developed and marketed and then lobbied a single solution that aged extremely poorly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn_Cheol-soo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn_Cheol-soo
- makeitdouble 2y agoOne answer is internet banking being way more cumbersome and less advanced in other countries. At that time spending time on the phone or have the customer come spend a miserable time at the agency was the prefered way from the bank's perspective. To this day many banks won't allow all operations from the online interface.
- citrin_ru 2y agoActive-X was AFIK a common requirement for banking e.t.c. during crypto export restrictions but once they where lifted almost everyone switched to https. What different about SK is the laws which keep their IT security in the past.
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoCan I get a link to a few of those sites? I want to see what happens when I visit using Firefox and tor browser.