South Korea’s cyber security landscape is a nightmare

I’ve always known that South Korea has a weird fetish with Internet Explorer and that they were forced to scramble for solutions when other browsers became more popular and IE was losing support from Microsoft. I had no idea that a convoluted layer of security applications  was behind the fetish.

Banks in the country apparently require their customers to have multiple “security” apps just to be able to use online banking because they don’t want to use established digital security resources.

Nowadays, a typical Korean banking website will require five security applications to be installed before you are allowed to log in. One more application is suggested to manage this application zoo. And since different websites require different sets of applications, a typical computer in South Korea probably runs a dozen different applications from half a dozen different vendors. Just to be able to use the web.

Pure insanity.