Unknown fact to people not living or doing online business with South Korea, but since 1999, Internet Explorer was the only accepted browser in order to make any banking, financial transaction on the internet forcing every single Koreans to use IE in order to shop online or to check their bank account.

However, since today, the South Korea government decided to ease this restriction and allow, effective today, the possibility to use other browser to make such transaction. This move from the government was mainly to allow people to use their smartphones to as another means to purchase online and to develop new business oriented for mobile devices.