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A year ago we looked into how feasible it would be to expand operations of our company beyond the US. Because we have a Korean-born Korean as a core team member
by chao- 14y ago
A year ago we looked into how feasible it would be to expand operations of our company beyond the US. Because we have a Korean-born Korean as a core team member, it was placed very high on the list of countries to explore. That spot lasted about fifteen minutes. By law in South Korea, you have to use an ActiveX plugin (and therefore IE) to process eCommerce transactions [1].
Looking it up just now to see what has changed in six months, I see that it's not strictly true anymore. The official policy allows for other browsers, but none of the steps necessary to allow those browsers have occurred.
[1] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/how-south-korea-became-slave-to-microsoft-internet-explorer-223429 http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/how-south-korea-became...
- kijin 14y agoYep, the official policy now allows for other browsers, and even encourages banks to implement web standards. But nobody is willing to implement the software that is necessary to port the current public key infrastructure to non-Windows, non-IE platforms, simply because there is not much money to be made. Some of the large banks have come up with half-baked cross-platform services to appeal to rich kids with Macs, but payment gateways have not changed at all. Only geeks use Chrome here, and I'm probably the only person in my town who uses Firefox. Mobile, of course, is a very large market, but banks just write their own Android & iOS apps and call it a day.
- waps 14y agoOh well, another country where it is a matter of (little) time until visa/mastercard/16 digit number cards breaks through. I don't understand these people's reasoning. Relentless innovation is how you become and stay the best. Kicking down the competition, secure in your market position is how you die. It may take a bitcoin, but sooner or later these companies are doomed.