@inproceedings{6b15deffb18941b89862ae859bb186e0,
title = "Tale of two browsers: Understanding users{\textquoteright} web browser choices in south Korea",
abstract = "Internet users in South Korea seem to have clearly different web browser choices and usage patterns compared to the rest of the world, heavily using Internet Explorer (IE) or multiple browsers. Our work is primarily motivated to investigate the reasons for such differences in web browser usage, relating with the use of government mandated security technology, digital certificate. We conducted an IRB-approved semi-structured online user study to examine internet users{\textquoteright} browser choices in South Korea and analyze their usage patterns. Our user study results reveal that there are clearly different users{\textquoteright} browser preferences across different web services, and they are in turn closely related with the security policy enforced by the government 20 years ago. In our study, while younger age group tends to prefer two browsers (Chrome and IE), older age group prefers to use IE browser Also, all age groups commonly prefer the IE browser for the services requiring digital certificates issued from Korean government agencies such as finance and e-commerce sites. Our user study is quantitative to show how the standardization of technologies in a country could affect users{\textquoteright} web browsing activities. Also, despite of the abolishment of the mandatory security technology, we still observe that people are not aware of such abolishment and habitually use technology locked-in IE browser.",
keywords = "Digital certificate, Public key infrastructure, Web browser",
author = "Jihye Woo and Choi, \{Ji Won\} and Soyoon Jeon and Han, \{Joon Kuy\} and Hyoungshick Kim and Woo, \{Simon S.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.; 1st Asian Workshop on Usable Security, AsiaUSEC 2020, the 1st Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDeFi 2020, the 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, VOTING 2020, and the 4th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2020, held at the 24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2020 ; Conference date: 14-02-2020 Through 14-02-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-54455-3\_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030544546",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "3--17",
editor = "Matthew Bernhard and Andrea Bracciali and Camp, \{L. Jean\} and Shin{\textquoteright}ichiro Matsuo and Alana Maurushat and R{\o}nne, \{Peter B.\} and Massimiliano Sala",
booktitle = "Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2020 International Workshops, AsiaUSEC, CoDeFi, VOTING, and WTSC, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "United States",
}