SEOUL-South Korea’s government is wiping out rules for Web browsing that trapped the country’s Internet users with 1990s-era security technology and created a de facto monopoly for Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer here. Then, the government started to change their web encryption standards:.Using Linux here in Korea is really annoying, since there’s no good option for viewing. A person could open Microsoft Word documents in the Hangul program, but not vice versa. Companies and individual users have to either buy the software or download a free ‘HWP viewer’ to be able to read them. Nearly all documents by the government, except for those of Korea Intellectual Property Office, are Hangul files, which are known by their “HWP” file extension. The program was adopted by the South Korean government nearly 20 years ago and has been a standard in most South Korean companies too, making the country one of the few places where Microsoft’s Office suite of workplace products has taken a back seat. South Korean software firm Hancom disclosed the file format specification for its flagship word processing program known as “Hangul”. Hancom, the developer of a word-processing program known to Koreans as Hangul and foreigners as HanWord, said this week it will open up the product’s source code so other people can modify it for smartphones, tablet computers and other new gadgets. Hancom, the maker of the Hangul word processing program which is the de facto standard for documents here, has open sourced Hangul:.Korea was busy while I was traveling this summer:
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