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I read somewhere that the IE icon is a symbol for web access in general in some parts of the world.

I know that in Korea, IE / Windows is basically the only choice, no one really registers the existence of anything else, so I presume it would be pretty similar in the rest of east Asia.

Korea is a special case; the government essentially mandated IE until very recently: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monocultu...

I think that was done as a courtesy not to make North Korea's government look that bad in comparison.

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