I don't believe there's much causation between SK's infrastructure and the kind of software they make. What they described in the article - horizontally integra

I don't believe there's much causation between SK's infrastructure and the kind of software they make. What they described in the article - horizontally integrated apps, cluttered websites, higher adoption of online payments and a well developed delivery culture are common all across SE Asia, including China which until recently had pretty bad internet infrastructure (and it's still not good). This nature of SE Asian tech has been there for a while. It seems like they are generally faster at adopting technologies that have been validated somewhere else but perhaps not widely adopted. There's definitely lessons to be learnt but I think they're sociological. EDIT: "information-dense" is perhaps more accurate than "cluttered"