"Some of you may remember a popular post I had earlier this year called “the cost of monoculture” which looked at the de-facto monopoly that Microsoft Internet Explorer has in South Korea for a number of historical and technical reasons. There has been some movement on this topic recently and I wanted to share this information with everyone..."

September, 3th. ISO JTC-1 Korea Committee voted "No with comments" to Office Open XML as P member body. Mr. Youngsik Kang, Korea Agency for Technology and Standards, one of ISO/JTC-1 members confimed voting result to ISO on August, 31th after collection the public opinion from various experts, companies and government in Korea.

I've written before about the curious case of South Korea, where the use of Internet Explorer and ActiveX is almost mandatory. I rather despaired of anything changing this situation, since there didn't seem to be any way to get around it from outside. And yet, remarkably, change is coming...

Lhe second annual LinuxWorld Korea took place in Seoul's Coex Convention and Exhibition Center June 20 through June 23.

North Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows.

With just weeks to go before South Korea's presidential election at the end of last year, Seoul's newspapers were full of stories about historic North-South cooperation.

Bitter political foes South and North Korea are to jointly develop a version of Linux.

SOME DETAILS about North Korea's much rumoured Red Star operating system are slowly starting to emerge.

There was an announcement a while back that North Korea had come out with its own version of Linux (called Red Star OS). I wasn’t able to get a download link…until today.