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Five years ago, when I lived in South Korea next door to the DMZ, I got the fastest unlimited internet in the world for $35 a month, but all the computers I saw
by khafra 17y ago
Five years ago, when I lived in South Korea next door to the DMZ, I got the fastest unlimited internet in the world for $35 a month, but all the computers I saw ran Windows 98. Now, they still use IE6? Do you think that years-long lag behind the state of the art can be permanently overcome, or just temporarily bypassed?
- korussian 17y agoThe average Korean's internet usage seems to be stuck in something of a walled garden - Naver/Daum/CyWorld/"Cafes"... and that's pretty much it. Most folks around here like the comfort of treading in groups, always where others have trod before. I don't think that is likely to change any time soon, probably about the same time travel agents start to see a decline in package tours in favor of individual trips. In other words: probably never. On the other hand, Koreans are never behind the state of the art - they do relish having the latest and greatest things to show off. You can count on one hand the number of second-hand stores in Seoul, mostly because new=good. They simply have no problem conforming to the flock, which, in the case of internet security, is rarely a smart move. When eventually some high-level government official or TV channel will point this out, suddenly everyone will take notice, and they'll all move on, as a flock, to the next thing, and the next, and next.