The wildest thing I found was that most office workers seemed to be using windows 2000 to run their …

Do South Korean companies prefer hosting data on their own servers instead of using Public cloud providers like Azure, AWS, GCP?

I think it's very interesting that Korea is probably the country with the fastest cultural adoption of new tech, e.g. #1 for ChatGPT, but on the other hand I can see as a web developer that new web tech is often adopteded at a very slow rate.

Things South Korea is good at producing: Cars, ships, steel, semiconductors, electronics, medicines, tanks, aircraft parts, nuclear reactors... Things South Korea is bad at producing: Software. Not too bad overall.

Back when I worked for Mozilla, I had the chance to go to Seoul to meet with various companies and some governmental ministries. This was when Korean banks and ecommerce sites required Internet Explorer and Active-X controls for secure transactions. This meant that MacOS users or Linux users couldnt do secure transactions in Korea without emulating Win/IE.

> I can share an anecdote how slow tech adoption is in Korea. It is not exactly about tech in public section but in private companies. I assume public section has slower adoption rate than private ones in general. I guess it's not all tech, but at least in telecoms I thought they were very quick to adopt new tech? 2nd in the world to commercially deploy 3G W-CDMA, world first LTE-Advanced [1], "first fairly substantial deployments" of 5G [2]. 90% of broadband via fibre (used to be #1 amongst OECD countries for some time, now it's only just #2). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Telecom#History [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Deployment [3] https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/broadband-statisti... -> Percentage of fibre connections in total broadband (June 2024) spreadsheet link