Certainly hope so! This issue needs to be rectified regardless who becomes the president: If either of the two liberal ones (Ahn or Moon) wins we have hope. But if the conservative party (Park) wins the election I wouldn't expect the change.

The unusual IE dependency is now hurting the Korean internet industry, as both the established brands and the startups in Korea develop for IE, their services end up failing to go beyond the Korean market. Hard to globalize your offering when you have to start satisfying a peculiar domestic market, and when you grew up using ActiveX and IE most of your life.