Korea, pound for pound, has to be one of the most poorly legislated technology states in the world.
Everything is in absolute bizarro land in Korea when it comes to technology. Here are just a few of things I’ve encountered in Korea:
- You have to have a phone number to sign up for any type of account. (Hasn’t discouraged any toxicity either.)
- Foreigners can’t use things like delivery apps because they can’t make accounts due to the phone number thing or they can’t use their international credit cards.
- Most people own windows PCs because in order to do any banking in Korea you have to install software that is tantamount to the bank’s spyware on your computer.
- All mobile phones have non-mutable shutter sounds.
- Location services like find my iPhone are banned.
- cellular data usage costs an arm and a leg, making free WiFi a necessity at any business
- The quality of FaceTime calls is extremely throttled. For the longest time FaceTime just didn’t even work. KakaoTalk video calls never had that problem.
- contactless pay via Apple Pay was only introduced this past year
You’d think Korea would be bleeding edge when it comes to technology it’s far from a technocracy, It’s just a stumbling, bumbling, corrupt state that can only get out of its own way to clear space for the large conglomerates.
I feel so sad for the Korean people. What should be a thriving, entrepreneurship-driven economy is the exact opposite - an oppressive, corporatist hole that sucks up peoples economic dreams and emits zero-sum, despair-driven ambition.
Everything is in absolute bizarro land in Korea when it comes to technology. Here are just a few of things I’ve encountered in Korea:
- You have to have a phone number to sign up for any type of account. (Hasn’t discouraged any toxicity either.)
- Foreigners can’t use things like delivery apps because they can’t make accounts due to the phone number thing or they can’t use their international credit cards.
- Most people own windows PCs because in order to do any banking in Korea you have to install software that is tantamount to the bank’s spyware on your computer.
- All mobile phones have non-mutable shutter sounds.
- Location services like find my iPhone are banned.
- cellular data usage costs an arm and a leg, making free WiFi a necessity at any business
- The quality of FaceTime calls is extremely throttled. For the longest time FaceTime just didn’t even work. KakaoTalk video calls never had that problem.
- contactless pay via Apple Pay was only introduced this past year
You’d think Korea would be bleeding edge when it comes to technology it’s far from a technocracy, It’s just a stumbling, bumbling, corrupt state that can only get out of its own way to clear space for the large conglomerates.
I feel so sad for the Korean people. What should be a thriving, entrepreneurship-driven economy is the exact opposite - an oppressive, corporatist hole that sucks up peoples economic dreams and emits zero-sum, despair-driven ambition.