Ok before we start this TL;DR,
I know what you’re thinking.
Yes, Simon changed his hairstyle
You can tell, it’s different.
I look cute now.
So, for todays TL;DR we’re gonna talk about
The Korean internet because,
Even though a lot of people know
The Korean internet is one of the
Fastest in the world,
If not THE fastest in the world
It’s also one of the most broken internets in the world.
Like really badly broken in many ways.
And if you don’t live in Korea,
You don’t experience a day to day life
Of being on the internet, but
If you’re just visiting, you’re like
”Wow, the internet is so fast, it’s the greatest!”
Well let me tell you guys, there’s Ish ish use
We got some things to talk about
So first let’s talk about the positive things,
Yes, the internet here is incredibly fast,
If you want to download a movie illegally
Because I know some of you do,
Then you can download it in a minute or so.
Seriously, I press download and I walk to the bathroom
And I came back, and it was all downloaded.
If you use instagram in Korea, it is actually Insta-gram.
It’s instant gram but I remember when we were in Australia,
it was like delayed gram, or non existent gram.
Yeah. It just couldn’t load.
It was really weird. We were like
”What is it broken? What’s happening here, is it broken?
My hands seems like it’s broken.” ”There’s a swirly thing?”
If I press refresh, pictures pop up like ‘that’.
If I wanna load a website in Korea it loads
just instantly loads, and when we go back home again
We become tiny spoiled children who
Don’t know how to function.
However, despite the fast internet speeds,
Let’s say that you live here and you open up
A bank account and you wanna do online banking
Or like online shopping, should be easy right?
Anything involving money.
Incorrect.You’ve just been activexed
Let me explain what Activex is.
It’s a set of tools of some secutiry softwares
Developed by Microsoft in the 1990’s
and a lot of Korean internet websites
Base themselves of Activex
So in order for you to actually do any online banking
Or online shopping, you have to download
And install this Activex on your computer.
Problem number 1 is, it’s really really old and bloated software
The software’s so old that we had to go
And buy a Windows computer to do our online banking
But Windows eight was to far ahead of it to run.
You have to get back to internet explorer 6
and internet explorer 7 if you wanna use it.
And this is for our bank, that’s a bit concerning that You’re not updating yourself with the times.
Like whaaaa?
Problem number 2 is Activex is Windows stuff
So if you have a mac then you can’t install Acitvex On your computer and you can’t do a lot
Of basic stuff on the Korean internet.
This may not have been a problem for Korean
People maybe several years ago, but
There’s been a boom of Mac technology in Korea
There are Mac stores and iPhones are like crazy, they’re everywhere
Right. So now the problem is that now that
A lot of people in Korea are using mac technology
They find ”Oh I can’t do my banking on my phone,
or I can’t internet shop, What?”
And it’s just not Activex that you have to install on the computer
A lot of different banks and different websites give you
Additional hardware software that you have to
Install on your computer, and the problem is that you
Wind up installing so many different programs like
I remember we tried to use a Farbank
There’s like 8 different programs we had to install
And they slow you down,
Just imagine installing Norton Antivirus
10 TIMES On your computer.
Just so you can use a bank, it’s a mess.
And we’re technologically savvy, imagine if
You try to help out your parents,
your grandparents to use the internet. Oh man.
But ok, some of you might be arguing
The security is important (it’s a good thing)
It keeps people from hacking for online banking.
Information can remain safe because of this,
Really?
Because recently Korea had over 20 million
People’s IDs and information stolen, from their banks.
Including me by the way!
Martina’s got conned
And then, just today:
KT which is arguably the biggest
cellphone company in Korea, just mailed me this today.
Hey Simon, all of your information has been conned and stolen.
They just gave this information today,
But people have been hacking them from FEBRUARY 2013!
For 13months this has been going on
And I just found out today. That’s nice.
So all the information where we live and our ID numbers
And our banks, our Alien registration number,
Our like how many transactions, how much we pay
All of that information’s out there now. It’s all out there!
Activex, you’re so good! Really good at your job right?
You’re good Activex! Obviously it’s working, don’t you think?
Going back to Apple and Mac technology,
A lot of people have iPhones but you find that
You can’t actually use Apple maps here or
You can’t even use Google maps,
Because the security of Map software in Korea’s
So strict as well none of those things really work here in Korea.
You go over to Japan and you ask it for directions
And it shows you the buildings (3D)
But if you try to zoom in
anywhere in Korea it’s all modelled and fuzzy
Because you’re not allowed to use that here.
I think one of the big things that I’ve noticed with Korea is that
They have their own sphere where they do things
So for example if you use Naver and Daum maps,
Ok, no problem! Fantastic!
You can get all the visible streets, but it’s in Korean
So yeah we can read it and we can understand it
But then if I try to send it to someone who’s like
let’s say visiting, they don’t know what’s going on.
So if you wanna use Daum and Naver stuff,
You got all access to it, but google and Apple
Are very much kind of pushed out of Korea,
They don’t want them to be doing stuff here.
In fact even if you wanna use Youtube here
You’ll find that it’s severely throttled and I know
A lot of people talk about Net neutrality and whatnot
But try to watch Youtube videos here,
They load a lot slower than they actually do in Canada!
And Canada’s internet is like Flintstone era internet.
Aw, poor Canada! It’s better than some other countries.
But you can actually watch that but here in Korea
You really have to, it just keeps on buffering and pausing.
Because it’s actually throbbed here
So a lot of people keep on saying to us
”That’s really weird, why is Youtube so slow in Korea
I thought It would be faster?”
That’s because they don’t want people using Youtube.
Don’t use Youtube...
They’re trying to push people to use other Korean businesses.
I think a good way understanding Korean internet
Is that it’s great within its little equal system of Korea
If you’re Korean then all the things work very well
But if you’re an outsider trying to do other things
Or an international website then you might find
That things here aren’t all too friendly for you.
I’d have to disagree with that, the reason why
Is that Sozee said that, yes she understands
Activex and that she has to install it,
But it annoys her.
And that now when she switched to mac
She couldn’t even register for her school program.
So you think that it’s just effecting people
Who are visiting but I think it’s affecting Korean people as well.
So let’s move onto unintuitive website design
Very simple example here, if you wanna order from
Like Domino’s pizza in Korea.
So you can actually go to Domino’s the website
You can put in your ID whether it’s Korean or Foreign
And then you have to make an account
And then you can actually order online
and have pizza sent to your house.
That sounds super awesome.
That’s brilliant! I know a lot of countries don’t actually have that.
So that’s a good thing.
Except, a lot of the log informs for these places have
been so there’s like a maximum of like 3 characters.
Because most names are like last name and then two first names.
Kim Soo Zee, that’s all you need. Yeah.
Except, I have some Korean friends whose first names
are like Ma-Ri-Ah, that’s just their first name
If you don’t enter your exact ID from your card
because Korea is very tight when it comes to security
then you can’t log in.
But if your name is longer than
three characters you can’t log in either.
So for us, we can’t even begin to
Because my last name on my Alien card
Has already passed the zone.
Who thought of this as a design?
Like a maximum of three
Why would you do that?
It’s not just screwing over foreigners
It’s screwing over Koreans with different names!
But I don’t even know why you would build a website
And be like ”Hold on hold on, no one can be longer than 3 characters.”
So that kind of stuff I find very frustrating.
And the last thing that I wanna talk about,
If you are a foreigner in Korea and you
Wanna capitalize on the amazing internet speed
You’re gonna find that a lot of the services
That you’re used to, you can’t use anymore
Netflix for example, Hulu for example, and pornography for example
Are all blocked here in Korea.
The first two Netflix and Hulu aren’t necessarily blocked
They just don’t offer international services
Porn on the other hand is many times blocked,
And if you do some online gaming for example
I bought Final Fantasy XIV cause I really wanna play it
Because I love Final Fantasy is blocked as well I can’t play it.
Chocobo?
Final Fantasy XIV is an online game You can’t play it offline you have to be connected online
And you just, it’s blocked here
But why would they block it?
Because Fuuuk you that’s why.
I’m just curious like
I think it’s because Korea is really trying
To track down on teenagers that are
Gamin online a bit too much.
Didn’t they make a law that you
Can’t stay on past 12 o’ clock?
Yeah, so there’s like a lot of control measures
That are put in there now, and since SONY
can’t comply with those measures
Because it’s not only catering stuff for the
Korean audience but international audience
Korea say: You can’t play by our rules,
You can’t play in our country
That’s so sad, you’re like a man who wants
To play a video game who has been told that he can’t
Stop nannying me Korea! Let me me play my video games
And let people I know wanna watch porn!
Also, outside of porn I know a lot of people say
They like watching Korean dramas
And when they come to Korea they can’t
Watch them anymore so it’s also blocked.
So, good luck with that guys.
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So we’re gonna talk a little bit more of The restrictions of Korean internet on our website
So make sure you click on the link here to read more about it.
So I’ve got a whole bunch of questions for you guys.
If you’re Korean and living in Korea how do you
Feel about the internet, does Antivex bother you?
Or if you’re outside of Korea what issues does
The internet have in your country?
Apart as not being as fast as ours. What what~
Fastest internet in the world,
What you got Japan? What’s you got?
Japan’s got porn.
I was gonna say Japan’s got porn
And Final fantasy.
For last TL;DR we wound up talking about
Yellow dust in Korea and what that actually does to you
And when we wound up asking you for your inputs
And some of your comments were extremely awesome
Like for example ’HolyWarriorFury’ that said
That in their country they get ”haboobs”
Which are dust storms but the name is
Haboobs...
That’s such a cute name for something terrible.
Does anyone else find that name amazing?
Question: Can you get on the water during a haboob?
Because then you would be motorboating in a haboob.
Get it?I like your like ”I was thinking about something funny
So I twitched”
’Exo Kai’ thanks for watching Kai,
Says they’re from Malaysia and they get crushed
From haze they said it’s so bad that when
You’re driving it looks like something from Silent Hill.
That’s crazy! That’s creepy...
I don’t know like I think it’s very different
Than what we have from yellow dust
I don’t think it’s really dusty I think it’s more of a
Pollutiony? I’m not too sure about haze.
But I know that a lot of people in
The comments were complaining about the haze there.
The user ’Zelle13HallyuForever9’
Like obviously the best name ever, showed us
a picture from the Philippines of a bus
Shitting in your mouth.
It’s sooo..
Okay you’re making it so
They’re on a motorcycle and the bus was like BZUU
A bus just unloaded a big cloudy turd
In your mouth it is terrifying supposedly this
Kind of stuff happens often
Really? Yes.
They should get checked for their....
I’ve never experienced that?
I know that whenever we’re on our scooter
In korea we always try to stay away from the buses
Because we always hear the like Poooooof
So I know that the buses are farting
But just not big black turds..
And then the big black turd came!