Korean Job Discussion Forums

[zenbone]

Are there any problems accessing pages or accounts that were created in America when i am living in Korea? If i start a blog here (in the US) can it be accessed and updated when in Korea? How about email accounts, are they still valid and accessible?

[SeoulNate]

Only internet based problems i have run into so far in 3 years:

1. The vast majority of Korean sites are created for IE only and dont work on real browsers.

2. Streaming video sites from N.America and Europe dont work without alot of work on your end :p

you wont have a problem with your blog

[yellowdove]

The only problem I've had has been with youtube, because of the stupid real-name verification law or whatever. Unless you change your country, it will pick up on your IP, determine you're in Korea, and won't let you upload videos. Simple solution - change your country location at the bottom of the page. Everything else has worked perfectly on firefox.

Oh, yeah, except the Korean sites. SeoulNate is right, Korea likes to design their sites specifically for IE. The major problem I've run into has been buying Korail tickets online. Just use IE for that, and you're golden.

[sheriffadam]

couldn't use auction.co.kr website in korea fora printer last night, had to go from Firefox back to IE - not a big deal though

[Troglodyte]

South Korea does block a lot of sites. If it's anything that's "anti-Korean" or "pro-North Korea" and some other stuff that majorly disagrees with standard Korean propaganda it get's blocked most of the time. They also block some sites hosted in former communist countries. In theory they block all porn and gambling sites (so in theory, Koreans don't do online gambling or watch porn).

For the most part, they don't censor the internet much, but to a certain extent they do censor stuff.

My advice, start your blog now while you're in the states and then give us the link. If we can see it, then it's not being blocked. Or make up a test account and ask someone here to see if they can log in.

[balzor]

[crossmr]

Yes. If you decide to change any of your locations to Korea, or you change your unicode fall back language to Korea on your PC for use with some programs, various websites, services and programs will assume you are korean (even though your language choices are set to English) and start installing/delivering e-mails in Korean.

Windows Live does this. Language set to English, location set to Korea, every update I get from them is in Korean. I've asked their help, apparently there is no way to fix it. To many major companies only people who speak the native language of the country would ever use a computer or the internet inside that country. Because a few korean apps need the unicode language set to Korean, many drivers and utilities which have language options but don't let you change the language manually will autodetect as Korean. Apple does this, my OS is a north american copy set to English, nvidia, intel, and a couple others also do this. I got around it a bit by installing those first before switching my unicode language, but if they update, they'll change the language. A restart is required to change the unicode language, so it's a hassle to keep flipping it.

Some websites will simply default you to a Korean version because your IP comes from Korea. Google does this if you go to google.com. go to google.ca and it won't do it, there is a string you can put on if you want the US version of google in English.