In addition, only 13% of the developers answered that Korea’s web environment did not lag behind that of other countries. The majority answered that the Korean web environment fell behind others by 1-5 years(57%), and some even said 5-10 years (26%).

As to what issues need to be resolved immediately to eliminate the discrepancy between local standards and global standards, 74% of the respondents replied ‘Active X’, followed by online payment policy(17%), and name verification policy(7%). In response to an open-ended question asking what is further required for the advancement of the mobile internet, which is recently enjoying a tremendous rise in popularity, 15% of respondents replied ‘web standardization/global standards, 12% replied ‘expansion of wireless internet network,’ and 7% said ‘deregulation’.

On the other hand, a very positive evaluation was given to the benefits of web openness, with 50% of the respondents replying that web openness promotes continuous innovation, 31% saying that it maximizes efficiency of development and 17% responding that it helps facilitate entry into the global market.

Also, almost 45% of respondents answered that they set open browsers such as Firefox(20%), Chrome(12%), Safari(11%) and Opera(1%) as the default browsers, showing high preference of open browsers among developers.

Channy Yun, the Manager of the Web Standards Korea, stated that “More innovation can be achieved in the web environment when openness is guaranteed,” adding, “As this study reveals, developers, the industry and the government should come together to find a way to resolve issues hindering web development, such as the implementation of global standards and the relaxation of excessive regulations.

Won-Jin Lee, Managing Director, Google Korea & JAPAC Global Accounts & Agency stated that “The increased flexibility in the web environment following the full-scale introduction of the mobile internet is viewed very positively.” and explained that “The introduction of global standards will provide a chance for both local developers and companies to gain greater competitiveness in the global market.”

The above study was conducted by the Web Standards Korea and Google Korea to understand the current situation of web openness in Korea as well as to obtain a deeper understanding of the direction the web should be headed in. The survey was conducted on developers that attended the HTML5 Open Conference, where a total of 384 developers responded.

The HTML5 Open Conference hosted by Web Standards Korea, was the first HTML5 technology related conference of its kind in Korea. The Conference was held to communicate that HTML5, the next-generation web application platform, is an open web standard created to enhance user experience.

At last, Open Web, with 83 netizens behind had filed a lawsuit against Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute, one of official CAs with damage claim of $460,000 on the January 24th, 2007.

You can read more detail in Web Security Certificate Issuer Preps $10mil Lawsuit with Korean Administration and KFTC and MOGAHA to be sued before Vista releases of ZDNEt Korea’s article. The KFTC had over 80% market share in official CAs and was made by korean banks. Most of banks has used KFTC’s internal network and infra-system.

Recently there was a court arbitration between OpenWeb and KFTC. The KFTC insisted that supporting of all O/S and browsers is impossible and costly expensive. But, the judge demanded the settlement in each other, if OpenWeb suggests the proper range, deadline and cost, the KFTC must accept that. The OpenWeb will require alternative technology such as Java applet (e.g. OpenOCES in Danish for Firefox, Opera and Safari users in other operating systems within eight months.

Whereas, the Ministry of Government and Home Affairs decided to renewal of E-gov site. I’ll continually follow up this lawsuit and progression of government.

In first introduction of SEED in 1997, there was only cryptographic ActiveX or NSPlugin (was deprecated after browser wars). It works issuing and managing personal certificate by national CAs and “adding digital signature” to “important text” as like account number to transfer money in transaction. InisafeWeb is one of them. (There are almost eight providers in Korea, so if you use several national CA services such as banking, cyber trading and e-government, you must install at least over three same functional ActiveX control. It’s so ridiculous)

I will explain a brief process of transactions using ActiveX. If someone want to make secure transaction, he inputs necessary information in HTML form. A javascript function called by submit sends them to Cryptographic ActiveX control. It encrypts them and adds digital signature with user’s public key. Encrypted message by ActiveX returns in HTML form again. And form.submit() is finally executed. Web server decrypts and validates form data made by user certificate with CA via OCSP. After requested tasks was executed by web server and it sends to results to his browser. In this stage, some bank site often gives encrypted message for decryption by interaction between ActiveX control and Javascript.

In fact, it’s almost same with SSL transaction. All browser has a certificate manager as similar User-interface as Mr. Vladimir saw. Why korean didn’t use browser’s basic function? One is SEED encryption algorithm. The other is the digital signature function not to be standardized in browser. It is similar with crypto.signText(), in fact, it was originated by that idea in 10 years. The cryptographic ActiveX has these functions.

Finally, I will explain the rest ActiveX controls. There has been a financial accidents by hacked personal certificate and security number affected by key logging tools. It caused by user’s insensible installing ActiveX in Korea. (Most people was educated by clicking “Yes” in prompting Security Warning in installing ActiveX by IE. Why? Most of public services has used ActiveX. So people cannot help affecting spywares or malwares. It’s just a vicious circle of security.) So most of bank started to give a prohibiting key logging(”SoftCamp”) and online firewall and vaccine ActiveXs(”Hauri”). InsisWeb is only Shinhan’s insurance processing ActiveX. As same as cryptographic ActiveX, there are each several providers of these tools. So installing ActiveXs were continually increased. Maybe most of korean has almost over 10 ActiveX controls to use public services.

The problem is that all ActiveX controls are highly coupled and there is no right to choose them to users. It’s not the end. Most of e-government sites offer DRM-enabled printing ActivX for all printer drivers. In credit card transactions, there are several providers and their ActiveX controls. In korea, even Visa3D was operated in ActiveX. (The government made a guideline to use National CA system over credit card transaction over $300. So If you want to buy something in online shopping mall, you must install above all.) If you want cyber trading…? Yes. There is another ActiveX.)

It’s very serious situation, there has been several warnings in Windows XP SP2 and ending support of Windows 98. But, korean government ignored them, most of software companies has used dodging tactics to protect their business.) Now it’s not only SEED’s problem in korean situation. It’s almost national Intranet system optimized in Windows and Internet Explorer attacked by inner hackers. It’s korean home brew.

Another vendor summit will be held in Korea to discuss future of web applications and review of korean situations.

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(Mar. 8, 2007, Seoul, Korea) The Global Web Technology Workshop will be held by the Future Web Forum (FWF) on March 16 at the Textile Center Bldg. in Samsungdong, Seoul, Korea. The FWF is a web expertgroup for the adoption of global web technologies and standards within the Korean web industry. The FWF consists of experts with over10 years of experience in Microsoft Korea, Apple Korea, OperaSoftware Korea and Web Standards.

This event is officially supported by Microsoft Korea, Mozilla Corporation and Opera Software Korea. In this workshop, Mr. Channy Yun of the Mozilla Korean Community will speak about Firefox 3 and rich web applications as well WHATWG activites. Mr. Goodhyun Kim of Microsoft Korea will speak about Windows Vista and multi-platform UX. Mr. Suyong Wang of Apple forum will explain the Safari Browser and the difficulties Macintosh users have on the Korean web environment. Finally Mr. Manyoung Cho of Opera Korea will introduce the Opera browser, Opera Widgets and Opera’s web standards evangelism efforts.

In a panel discussion, these experts will discuss the trends of global web technologies and the Korean situation caused by ActiveX incompatibility issues on Microsoft Windows Vista after eachpresentations. They will become this issue in view of outsider and global terms show screen casts of examples in internet banking and e-governments site in abroad.

This event will be helpful to explain global standards and the abnormal situation of the Korean Internet to decision makers in the Korean government and the Korean IT industry. The event is free.

KWAG launched several small groups, that is TF’s at this 7th workshop. There are Web Accessibility Evaluation, Caption and Audio Description , Universial Web Design, Javascript Framework and KWAG 2.0 TF etc.

Have a quick look at the following photos to get how the workshop worked:

• some pictures taken by Hooney, one of the leading members of KWAG. The photos are grouped by the TF’s.
• photos taken by corean
• All Flickr photos tagged with kwag

웹 표준화 프로젝트(Web Standards Project)에 참여하고 모임 리더를 맡은 몇 년동안 제가 가지고 있는 열정과 희망을 통해 전 세계에 많은 동료들을 만나고 네트웍을 만들 수 있었습니다. 이게 바로 월드 와이드 웹의 세계 인것이죠. 우리의 비전을 제대로 달성하려면 역시 폐쇄적인 것 보다는 포괄적인 접근이 필수적이라는 생각을 가졌습니다.

그 결과 저는 WaSP에 새로운 형태의 그룹을 만드는 것이 좋다고 생각했습니다. 기술 TF나 위원회가 아닌 웹 표준에 대한 글로벌 자원을 공유 하고 전파할 수 있는 워킹 그룹입니다. 그룹의 목적은 각 지역 언어로 웹 표준 정보를 번역하거나 네트웍과 정보를 교환하고 가능하다면 장소를 불문하고 직접적으로 만나 이야기할 기회를 제공하는 것입니다. 이 그룹은 여러 나라에 있는 커뮤니티 간 서로 연락하고 전문적인 자료를 제공하고 있었던 웹 디자이너나 개발자들로 구성하는 것입니다..

개인적 사정이 생겨서 이 아이디어를 추진하는 데 약간의 도움만 줄 수 있었습니다. 게다가 아이디어만 내고 떠나 버리는 꼴이 될까바 내심 두렵기도 했습니다. 사람들의 자원 봉사로 완성되는 풀뿌리 조직은 매우 어렵습니다. 때로 참여하는 사람들은 일이나 가족 보다 우선 해야 할 때도 있기 때문입니다. 하지만 저는 제안을 했고 그 자체로 기쁘게 생각합니다.

제가 이 제안을 한 후, 이 모임은 사람들이 모였을 뿐 아니라 민주적인 자발적 그룹으로 성장했습니다. 지금 ILG는 외견상 Stephanie Troeth과 Glenda Sims이라는 훌륭하고 헌신적인 두 여성이 이끌고 있습니다. 이 그룹의 포괄적 비전은 전 세계적으로 다양하고 재능이 많은 사람들과 함께 열정을 가지고 준비하고 꿈을 이루어 가는데 있습니다.

따라서 오늘 Web Standards Project에 국제 협력 그룹 의 결성을 소개하게 되어 무척 자랑스럽고 기쁘게 생각합니다.

Molly E. Holzschlag
전 그룹 리더, 웹 표준화 프로젝트 (WaSP)

- Seokchan (Channy) Yun

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions will be published soon by Mr. Suman Park’s 3rd. translational book. It contains advanced techniques to treat CSS in practice. Thanks for Suman’s efforts.

Hooney, one of the participants proposed a name of this group: KWAG, Korea Web Accessibility Group. They shared and studied together in the following fields: history of web, the benefits of web standards, the components of web standards, multimedia accessibility, SMIL, multi-modality, usability, workflow, Flash accessibility, browser interoperability, coding techniques, authoring tools, e-learning accessibility, accessibility guidelines, assistive technologies, screen readers, plug-in problems, etc.

You can join and together with them to write KWAG.

It has two events Part I, official conference with general sessions and Part II, discussion session with dinner. In part I, Mr. Kazuhito Kidachi, one of WaSP member gave a lecture Web Standards: The Right Tool for the Right Job about history and philosophy of Web Standards. Most of attendee were invited people from governmental organizations. He explained why web standards are important and necessary. It was very helpful for them to make their public web sites.

Mr. Channy Yun spoke The Future of Web Standards, HTML5 for the recent standards activities by W3C and WHATWG and also explained detailed specifications of W3C’s XHTML2 and WHATWG’s HTML5. It was very technical issues, but some of developers got useful informations.

Part II, there are three subject to discuss after good dinner provided by Oakwood Hotel. They are (1) Saving cost by Web Standards, (2) Roles of Web Publisher(a.k.a Front-end Engineer) (3) To persuade standards to others. There are many funny and useful experiences by attendee.

You can feel atmosphere from photos by Okoru, Yeoni, Kidachi, Suman Park and Nmind.

The Web Accessibility Seminar was held on Nov. 29th by Web Accessibility Lab of KADO. Over 300 people were attended in this workshop. There were various subject related to accessibility issues.

General Session
- Web Accessibility and Yahoo!’s efforts (Jinsoo Kim, Yahoo! Korea)
- Internet Uses of Blind People (Jungho Kim, Xvision Tech.)
- Examples and Standards (Prof. Seokil Kim, Chungbuk National Univ.)
- Considerations along the site production (Woncheol Shin, Cake Soft)

Practice Session
- (1) Recognitional Alternatives (Junho Hyun, KADO)
- (2) Operable Convenience (Hoon Cho, Daum Commerce)
- (3) Understandable Contents and Controls (Greg Shin, LG Electornics)
- (4) Advanced Technology (Hyeonseok Shin, Cidow)

All lecture notes are provided by PDF files. Some of contents contain korean language, but you can understand contents in general.

This site was made by NHN’s User Interface Team and explains NHN’s coding rules of HTML and CSS, examples of JavaScript, Ajax techniques and guidelines for outsourcing and quality assurance. NHN’s guidelines has “simple coding” philosophy and emphasized web accessibility, cross browsing and optimizing.

Its philosophy and contents are not perfect compared with the semantic markup and division of structure, presentation and behavior. But, it will be progressed to the right direction.

이 글은 웹 하이퍼텍스트 어플리케이션 기술 워킹 그룹(WHATWG) 활동의 일환으로 작성된 것으로 웹 표준 프로젝트(Web Standards Project), Lachy’s Log, Molly.com 그리고 456 Berea Street에 함께 투고된 것입니다..

W3C가 HTML 개발을 계속한다는 결정을 두고 전 세계에서 다양한 의견이 쏟아지고 있습니다. 블로그와 각종 포럼의 글들은 WHATWG와 W3C의 새 HTML 그룹과 관련하여 (HTML5와 XHTML2를 포함해서) HTML의 미래에 대한 다양한 의견과 질문 그리고 오해들이 일어나고 있습니다.

어떤 이들은 새로운 기능에 대해 질문하거나, 이전에 중단된 기능으로 되돌아 가는지 의문을 품기도 합니다. 또 어떤이는 WHATWG와 W3C의 그 결정 자체에 대한 코멘트와 비평을 하기도 하였습니다. 극소수는 특정 그룹의 요구를 무시하고 있다고 말하기도 합니다. HTML5라고 부르는 새로운 HTML 버전 개발을 주도하고 있는 WHATWG는 모든 의견을 들을 뿐 아니라 우리가 들을 수 있는 모든 나라의 언어로 함께 이야기를 해야 된다는 점이 중요하다고 생각하고 있습니다. 참여 하실 수 있는 방법은 많습니다.

가장 일반적인 방법은 메일링 리스트에 참여해서 의견을 전달하는 것입니다. 그러나, 메일링 리스트의 모든 사람이 이 작업에 참여할 시간이 없고 메일링리스트에서 이 많은 요구를 처리할 수는 없습니다. 어떤 분들은 HTML5의 현재 초안인 Web Applications와 Web Forms이 읽고 이해하기에 너무 버겁다고 느낄지도 모릅니다. 또, 다른 분들은 상당액에 달하는 W3C 회비를 낼 여유가 없으니 자신의 목소리는 어차피 전달할 길이 없다고 여깁니다.

이유야 어쨌든 참여하는게 불편하거나 실제 참여를 못한다고 해서 의견을 듣지 않아서는 안된다는 것입니다. WHATWG는 HTML에 대해 아래에 대한 당신이 생각하는 것을 듣고자 합니다.

• 고치고 싶은 HTML의 기능상 한계가 있습니까?
• 새로운 기능에 대한 아이디어가 있습니까?
• 쓰고 있는 HTML 기능 중 향상해야 할 것이 있습니까?
• 웹 개발 과정에서 걱정이 있으십니까 ?
• 현재 초안이나 새로운 기능에 대한 의견이 있으십니까?
• HTML 5에 대한 질문이 있으신가요?

모든 질문, 코멘트, 비평, 불만 그리고 요구 사항 모두 환영합니다. 이제 이야기해 주실 시간이거든요. 바보 같은 코멘트란 있을 수 없습니다. 너무 어렵거나 너무 쉬운 질문이란 없습니다. 어떤 비판도 지나치게 가혹하다고 여기지 않습니다. 코멘트를 남기시거나 글 링크를 달아 주십시오. 그래면 최대한 우리가 듣고 답변해 드리겠습니다.

The First Korean Web Standards Day was held a room of Sogang University in Oct. 28th. by CSS Design Korea. Over 80 people joined this event and five members gave lectures about discussions for web standards.

Agenda

• Minhye Kang : CSS Design Korea (or Standard Magazine) Report
• Hyeonseok Shin: Web, WebStandards
• Chanmyeong Jung : Best Practice of Web Accessibility Authoring with Dreamweaver
• Hoon Cho: Web site constructional process based on Web Standards
• Heungsup Lee : Introduction of We’b : Campaign for Web Accessibility

Our members, Mr. Channy Yun, Seungshik Shin and Suman Park participated in this meet-up too. There were various discussions and personal connections between each other. You can feel this atmosphere with photos by Suman Park.

They gave very interesting presentations CSS Zoom & Fluid Layout by Hyeonseok Shin, What I do (His job for web standards) by Suman Park, Component based Web Designs by Hyeonjin Cho and Firefox2 and Web Standards by Channy. Another woman presented the legal issue of Web Accessibility.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. Barcampe is world-wide unconference style. You can see photos of this event.

Another person is Mr. Chanmyeong Jung who works at Gtopia Inc. one of web agency companies based in Daejeon. He is 6 years web developers and was interested in web standards one years ago. He has managed his blog Naradesign and especially has been one of official beta tester for Dreamweaver of Macromedia.

Mr. Hyeonjin Cho also joined this group. He works at Megazone one of web agency companies based in Seoul. His blog is Naxer and his company donates webstandards.or.kr to us. Thanks for your contribution.

Web Standards in Practice

Mr. Suman Park, CEO of DoubleTrack starts five workshops for web designers and UI developers with code practice from Sep. 25th to Dec. 8th. As you know, Suman is the korean author of Web Standards Solution and Bulletproof Web Design. It is supported by Open Source Support Center of KIPA (Korean IT industry Promotional Agency).

Schedule

• 1st: Sep. 22th~23th for 25 people
• 2st: Oct. 26th~27th for 25 people
• 3st: Oct. 28th~29th for 25 people
• 4st: Nov. 16th~17th for 25 people
• 5st: Dec. 7th~8th for 25 people

Agenda
Day 1

• Web and Web Standards (3 hours)
• Semantic Mark-up (1 hours)
• The basic of CSS (1 hours)
• XHTML & CSS Practice (2 hours)

Day 2

• Website Practice (4 hours) - a construction of sample site
• DOM Scripting (2 hours)
• Q&A and Discussion (1 hours)

You can see photo of students in education center by Suman Park.

One Day Web Standards Coursework

Mr. Hyeonseok Shin also gives one day workshop for Web Standards with korea.internet.com in Oct. 12th.

Agenda

• 10:00~10:50 Web and Web Standards
• 11:00~12:00 Semantic Mark-up with XTHML
• 13:00~14:00 Design with Standards (Separation between structure and presentation, CSS Selector, Doctype and Rendering, CSS Hack)
• 14:10~15:00 Behavior (Document Object Model and Unobtrusive Javascript)
• 15:10~16:40 Practice Tips (Layout: float vs. position, Menu with lists and various content markup such as heading, paragraph)
• 16:50~18:00 Practice Process (Shopping mall and planning of web pages)

Global Web Expert Workshop

The TeamInterface, one of UI educational center will host Global Web Expert Workshop from Sep. 25th to 26th. Mr. Hyeonseok Shin and Hoon Joh gives lectures related to Web standards. Another subjects are related to Web Accessibility.

The 1st. Web Accessibility Contest will be held by Ministry of Information and Communications and KADO for all students of univeristies and high schools. It requires a standard-accessible web site by paticipators. All students can make a team within 4 members and must submit their web pages. One of them will win a prize by korean ministry of information and communications with . You can contact Mr. Junho Hyun if you have any questions.

The KADO presents an educatioal seminlar to all paticipators who are not good at web accesibility. Our members also will give a lecture for them. We are very proud of this content in Korea. Thanks for KADO again.

Agenda
- 10:00~12:00 A Business Values of Web Standards - Suman Park, CEO of Double Track
- 13:30~15:00 CSS Tips 1, 2, 3 - Suman Park, CEO of Double Track and Hoon Cho, Daum Commerce
- 15:30~18:00 CSS Demonstration 1,2,3 - Hyeonseok Shin, Cidow

After this seminar, Mr. Shin presented his pdf presentation file and sample codes of pcsi.go.kr in his blog.

* Date: 09:00~18:00, Jun 29th, 2006
* Place: 17F Textile Center Samsungdong, Seoul, Korea

• 09:30~10:30 Web 2.0 and Web Accessibility (Jungtae Kim)
• 10:45~11:30 Example of Site Renewal for Web Accessibility
  Presidential Committee on Social Inclusion (http://www.pcsi.go.kr/)
  Ministry of Finance and Economy Government (http://www.mofe.go.kr/)
• 11:30~12:10 Sense Reader (Jungho Kim, Xvision Tech)
• 13:30~14:20 CSS Layout and Web Accessibility (Hyeonseok Shin, Cidow)
• 14:20~15:10 Flash and Web Accessibility (Jinho Kang, Adobe)
• 15:30~16:15 Security and Web Accessibility (Jungshik Shin, KAIST)
• 16:15~17:00 Validation for Web Accessibility (Miyoung Jeon, KADO)

This event will be join over 300 participators. It shows many people are interested in web accessibility more and more.