"Imagine installing Norton Antivirus on your computer ten times." Oh hell no, I can't even imagine installing it once.

Korea's internet is the fastest in the world, but it's got a bunch of issues that are wrong with it, a bunch of things that other countries are doing right. We'll tell you about some of the things ruining Korea's internet in this week's TL;DR!

English subs are now up, if you need em!

Wow those laws are backwards. Especially when it's kind of obvious when some laws are in place just to keep the big companies happy. I love Asia but I'm starting to discover I completely loathe Asian politics.

thank you for making this video! the restriction on mac users in korea is no joke... especially for internet banking ㅠㅠ while i was living in korea, i literally had to go to the bank in person every time i wanted to do anything (even something as little as checking my balance). you only really hear about the positives of korean internet until you actually experience it first hand. mac users beware!

Pretty happy that the UK apparently has superior Dominos pizza ordering services, you don't need to sign up for anything. Priories people. It's about priorities. Pizza comes first.

Korean Internet sounds like hell. What good is it being super fast if you can't do anything?

BUFFERING KZfaq? THATS LIKE MY WORST NIGHTMARE

im in australia our internet seems pretty fast ... maybe i just havent experienced fast internet

I totally wanna make Korean subs of this for the Korean audience. After all, it's the incompetent government's fault that made it a law to use only active X

Korea, the home of Samsung and LG, makes using the internet difficult for Apple products? Quelle surprise!

so this has nothing to do with anything, but if I can give you a suggestion Martina, can you try light lavender hair? I think that would suit you soooo well!!!!

How to survive the US Internet. Internet SLOWS unexpectedly? Go over to your Internet cable. Unplug it. Don't die from electrocution, and plug it back in. Internet STOPS unexpectedly. Go over to your Internet cable. Unplug it. Don't die from electrocution, and plug it back in. Screen freezes? Click or tap everything until it works or Go over to your Internet cable. Unplug it. Don't die from electrocution, and plug it back in. Get a virus? Go over to your Internet cable. Unplug it. Don't die from electrocution, and plug it back in. Can't watch porn because of restriction? Look at erotic fan fiction.

You guys are wonderful human beings. If my identity had been compromised/stolen for a year and my bank failed to tell me this would be the most scathing video ever.

German subtitles are now up as well! Woohoo! Thank you, whoever you are, for making them!

Rather have ok internet with full freedom then super fast internet with no freedom.

simon you look so sophisticated like you could be a professor or something

That's got to suck :/. Living in the US we don't have those restrictions and it's pretty fast but a lot of the time the internet will just randomly stop working (even though it still says it's connected) or will go really really slow and I would have to unplug and plug in the internet thing just hoping it'll fix, and sometimes it doesn't. Course now that I have to use my Universities internet...I can't exactly reset it like I did at home....gets annoying if I'm working on an online homework assignment and I suddenly can't work on it cause the schools wifi just decides to stop working properly for like 2 hours...

I have never been so grateful of living in the states.

I really love your hair styled like this Simon!

may we have a moment of silence for those who can't watch porn...............

I can understand this map restriction policy in Korea. One must remember that North Korea is still in hands of a madman and it is possible to use modern gps based technology to provide detailed information about strategic objects.

Ah! I love Martina's new colored hair! Idk how long it's been like that because I've missed some videos but I love it!

I absolutely love your hair Martina! :3

That's horrible that they passed a curfew law. So how are you guys going to fix you identify theft?

I'm in the US, and the main complaint I have with the Internet is here is that it is very expensive and some providers (I have Time Warner Cable) will actually throttle our speed if we use it too much. It can be "reset" if we unplug and replug our modem, but it is still ridiculous considering the price we are paying. And with Comcast (a shittier company) buying TWC, I am concerned that the may put data caps on us eventually. (we currently pay for unlimited data) My dad always says that if Google Fiber ever comes to us, we're going to switch immediately. He's so fed up with TWC.

Hi S and M. Can you talk about skintone in korea ? Exo make many jockes about Kai being dark skinned and somatimes, I feel like they're being offensive. Do Koreans with a darker skintone get picked on like that ? What about non-korean with darker skin ?

Omg Martina I love your hair! It was a real shocked not to see your pink hair!

I'm planning on going for an exchange period in Korea next year but... no Netflix? no dramas? no properly functioning KZfaq? no... no... no (pr0n)? I... I... I don't know how I'll survive. Maybe I'll have to develop an actual social life. D:

... I don't think I wanna live in South Korea anymore. XDDDD I can't live without internet.. Here in Sweden, everything i like open and so, no restrictions, which is great. :x

I really liked this episode! I haven't laughed like this at a TL;DR in ageees xD love it!

Very informative, thank you

I was honestly trying not to giggle like a 12 year old boy at Simon's motorboating joke. I failed. tee hee hee

Korea would be so screwed if other countries decide to favor their own companies over foreign ones.

God you guys make me lol so much. Love how the instant Simon mentions Final Fantasy Martina goes right into her chocobo impression. LOL On a serious note, that all sounds reallllyyy frustrating.

Where i live you can't : PayPal Ebay Amazon Netflix Appstore Itunes Google Play Porn (you basically can't purchase anything online because you can't issue a visa or a master card here.) you may now feel bad for me.........

the worse on korean website is that you need you ID card to subscribe everywhere. You can't have anonymity on internet, which is really frustrating. And if you are foreigner, there is no way you can subscribe. For instance I wanted to register on afreeca to practice korean but they asked for my passport. My passport for commenting video on internet, wtf ? VPN can solve many problems, but not that. You have to hack someone's else id, which is illegal.

... No... No video games... Fuck that. I'm not going to Korea.

Great video. Everything so true!

Its interesting that Google/Android is so screwed over in Korea when its one of the main operating systems on Samsung products and the 3 major networks in Korea as well a few cable networks use KZfaq to spread Hallyu. Smh, thats really weird to have such high speed services and a bash of faults. I guess nothing is perfect.

Regarding the maps, it's because of the war with North Korea. They don't want South Korean maps to be available there.

I was gonna move to Korea once i graduated college, now I'm not so sure...

TL;DR suggestion: Hey Simon and Martina! Loved all your videos! Can you guys talk about your experience in applying to teach abroad? I know you talked about it in some videos, but I'm more interested in what kind of organizations or companies in Canada you two signed up and how did the teacher placement service work for you? I thought this would be helpful for domestic teachers who want an international teaching career,! Thank you very much!

I'm from Hong Kong and the Internet is fast and there isn't censorship like the rest of of China, apart from the area restrictions... We can't watch Mainland China shows on their official websites... This is really sad because The Ellen Show has just started airing in China and we don't get to watch it on the Chinese website because it's says we are 'outside' of China when apparently we aren't LOL

Simon- "I'm cute now" :D Simon you were adorable before hand, but your new hurr is very cute and the way u said that makes me chuckle haha :P

I live in Korea and I have a mac computer. registering for my school classes is a pain in the ass and just all around everything sucks. I'm glad you guys did a video on what it is actually like because i find that foreigners think that korea is the utopia for the internet.

About not wanting people to use youtube in Korea and pushing ppl more towards korean apps, this makes even more sense now with how hard music companies are pushing the V app these days.

Hacking and identity theft is a lot more common these days. It's a major issue in the US as well. The state where I live at had the tax records of its residents compromised. My parents and I happen to be those residents. Just the other day I received a letter from the University of Maryland that my personal information was compromised when they were hacked.

next tl;dr please…how about the homeless. i saw some when i visited in 2008, but my korean friend told me not to look at them and hurried me away? have you had these experiences with them, has any of your korean friends scorned them like mine, or is it very neutral? Ive been a fan for like 3 years!!! thanks for this guys, its such a cool thing and your show really brightens my day a lot of the time with yall's silliness!! christy…wilmington nc blue nasty!!!!

Ok, now I know that when I'll go to Korea, I'll have a social life. HAHA

martinas new hair colour looks so awesome!

Lived in Korea for over an year, and I can totally relate to that. Is REALLY frustrating how advanced internet speed is over there but yet so limited. I was expecting you guys to talk about the web browsers limitation, like so many internet services won't work unless you use Internet Explorer (and usually old versions of it), even if ActiveX is not required. To register for classes on my university's website, for example, is only possible on IE, like so many other services such as ordering food, booking flight tickets and so on.

id rather have my porn and internet rights and slower internet speeds than high internet speeds but with restricted internet rights; im disappointed in the south Korean government; south korea is a highly advanced technological society but with a government living in the middle ages lol im disappointed korea, you guys have taken a huge step backwards!

I've been in Korea for three years now, and I feel that the KZfaq internet speed has picked up a lot recently. I believe that all non-Korean websites are slow because they have to go through Japan and then make it to the U.S. When the tsunami happened, Japan was set back a little bit, which made all American websites loading even slower. But yeah, I love Korea's Internet. I really hate when websites still require Internet Explorer... for my Mac... Grrr...

i was about to leave a comment complaining about some of the problems over here but i read some of the comments and it looks like y'all struggle is realer than mine so.....yea. i'll be saying a prayer for you all tonight. including simon and martina. a life with no netflix isn't a life at all

OMG MARTINA YOU DYDED YOUR HAIR! I LOVE IT! Actually... You look good with any color :)

This TL;DR has made me wonder: In your opinion, what are the some of the most bizarre or unnecessary laws in South Korea?

ActiveX... That... still exists? WTF Korea

Its not always so fast.. its fast if its inside Korea, but so agree that internet in Korea is sooooo broken. No new Windows things work and OMG the things you have to install to your computer to get things working.. No privacy at all. Simon & Martina awesome video.. Rocking your cap that I got on my last visit before Xmas at the studio! keep the good stuff going.

Great episode! Oh! And I'm Canadian, our internet is actually really fast 😊

Oh my god Simon's new hair, I'm living for that flippy thing in the front. No complaints about the internet in the US aside from occasional cutouts while I'm trying to watch my porns.

i'm from the US and the internet speed here depends on what area you live in and how much you'er willing to pay. We can pretty much do anything and go on almost any website but we always now "big brother" is watching us lol!

In Peru we can get everything illegal really fast but Peru is one of the countries with the slowest internet

Martina, your hair looks freaking gorgeous!!! You're both so stylish

That's sound stupid. At least here in Malaysia, without the superfast internet, online banking, online shopping experience is breezy enough.

if you guys use google chrome, in the app store theres an add-on called hola that is a proxy/free VPN thingy. there, you can make your IP address look like its from Canada or the US or whereever in the world and that way you'll be able to access all ur stuff :D hope i helped and please like this so they can see it!

In Australia, yeah our Internet is slow, but we become so used to it we dont notice it really, not to mention phone companies (they also provide Internet services) overprice big time, and even tho most smaller companies that provide good deals on Internet plans, they are owned by the phone companies. It's a cycle of no.

Wow, I thought in Korea internet censorship was frowned upon. I just got a huge slap of reality across my face. No Hulu, slow youtube, and outdated firewalls would be a big problem for me I don't care how fast it is.

ERMERGERD! No porn and no games?! What would I do in my spare time then?

Internet in the US is fine until every person that lives in your house uses the internet at once then the internet feels like the slowest thing in the world

... I never actually thought there was something making me think twice about going to Korea.

Thank you for doing this, I am in the middle of writing a paper about censorship in Korea for my COM class, but am having serious problems finding information on this subject.

Swedish internet is basically Korean internet without the broken aspect! ^.^ But seriously, Swedish internet is also crazy fast compared to other countries' internet. You get used to the fast internet, so when you're in a foreign country you'll stand there and wait what feels like a lifetime waiting for something to load :D

...as a pc user, this amuses me, and makes me smile.

We get haboobs here in Arizona, especially in the summer. I highly recommend not getting in the water, go out boating, driving, or going outside during one. Visibility can get lower than 1/4 of a mile and all the dust in the air can be dangerous to your health. The monsoons here, however, are nice since we don't get much rain here normally. The 2014 season was the best/worst in a long time (it flooded a major highway one morning as it was getting near rush hour! (Not kidding. Go look it up))

I'm American and I only have a problem with slow internet, but from what you've described, I'd prefer my internet to yours.

CAN'T WATCH K-DRAMAS IN KOREA?!?! WHAT KIND OF CRAZY PARADOX IS THIS?!?! Time to change my after college plans...

I used to use vpns for my accessing american netflix and sites. But now I use Smart DNS, it basically unblocks those sites, but without a loss of download speed. Read more about it and maybe this will help you too :)

Wow, Martina, your hair looks so cute! And Simon, you look so grown up! I can't complain about the internet here in the U.S. I have Comcast and the speed is great, but the customer service is horrible.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! I've always heard such great things about Korean internet but I've had nothing but frustrations with it! And My Korean is very limited so I often use the English versions of websites like my bank and gmarket. But foorr somme reaason... a lot of it is still in Korean. On Gmarket especially... you can search and find what you want in English but then to actually buy anything it's in Korean, ON THE ENGLISH WEBSITE. Ahhh soo frustrating.

I don't find internet in Canada to be slow. The public ones ofc are really slow but the ones at home are fast :P

American internet isn't so bad it's just expensive as hell but at least we have freedom to look at whatever we want which could be a good or bad thing. Sorry about your info being stolen that can screw you up for years to come.

Thanks, this was an interesting TL;DR I hadn't realised South Korea had so many restrictions. I thought it was internet Mecca!

Singapore's internet is relatively fast and porn is also blocked here. But KZfaq, google maps, and backing function are all efficient. Most of the banks in Singapore have apps you can download to manage your accounts and security is handled differently. We use a security tag that is given to your with your credit card. Every time you want to log in or confirm a transaction you will receive a code on this tag And you need to key it into the app or website in order to complete the transaction. This means that even if you have all the particulars and even the credit card of that person, you cannot do anything without the tag. You can also programme a mobile phone number just in case you ever forget to bring the tag.

Martina if a turtle loses its shell is it homeless or naked?

In Germany a lot of KZfaq videos are blocked if there's music in them. So i can't watch most MVs without using a proxy. There's this copyright firm over here called GEMA don't ask me what exactly they do, it's a mess, but they had a lawsuit with KZfaq and they couldn't agree and now stuff's blocked

I never bothered with the online banking or shopping in Korea, mainly because I couldn't figure out how to write my address. Also, KB Bank was within walking distance of all the places I lived, so it wasn't an issue to go to the bank. I picked KB Bank because when I moved to Korea in 2013, they were the only bank that had Western Union advertised on the outside of the bank, and I needed to be able to send money back to my mom. Within a few months I was able to send money directly to my American bank from my Korean bank through the ATM. That was awesome!

Amazing hair Martina!

if youtube is pretty much non-existent in korea, how do you guys load your videos?

Yay a long TL;DR!!!

I'm a student here at a uni in Bucheon, and I can't read manga on some of my fav sites. *cries dramatically*

Martina! Your hair is so cute! It reminds me of cookies! :D

I'm good with the internet in America. I need internet freedom more than I need super fast internet. The internet that I have is fast enough. I'm not going to survive when I visit China and (since I might visit Korea as well) Korea this summer.

WHAT?! What's the point of fast internet then if everything's blocked or buffers too much!!? Dreams crushed! D:

I am a Korean living in Seoul right now, and this topic has always interested me. First, all I can say about Active X is that it is definitely an outdated system that needs to be gone. But I think there is definitely a growth in awareness of the Active X issue in Korea right now. Compared to about five years ago when nobody actually cared. Second, the blocking of pornography website really angers me. Not only do I believe porn should be an internet freedom guaranteed to the people, but blocking any internet material is not something a government of a leading IT country should do.

I live in China.. Facebook, youtube, blogs, and twitter are all blocked. Instragram also is slow and sometimes is blocked for a few hours to days. You are lucky to have your problem.

it took me 30 mins-1 hour to download a movie and i'm already happy with my current internet connection lol \;v;/

YOU HAD ONE JOB ACTIVEX!

In thr middle east the Internet speed is decent , rarely any blocked websites however there is no online ordering always shows the "no shipping" tag ! WHICH IS VERY FRUSTRATING ! The other thing is that some foreign drama sites of online watch/download might suddenly pop-up the "not available in your country" line to random dramas !

URGH, this video has just unloaded ALL OF MY FRUSTRATIONS. I'm from Australia and I've been watching these TL;DRs since the beginning, and after years of planning, I've finally moved to Korea to study! I was SO excited for the high speed internet. I've found that Korean websites load like lightning, but everywhere else online loads no faster (if not worse) than Australia! Wouldn't be a problem, except I can't yet speak Korean! My phone data is almost as bad as the public wifi (which for some reason works really well on my Korean friends' phones), all of my university sign on websites require internet explorer (which I can't use because I have a mac), I can't play Final Fantasy either - it won't tell me that it's blocked, it just says "error downloading update" - and to top things off, whoever opened my bank account mistyped my passport number into their system, and now I can't pass ANY security checks!! It's a good thing I love the place, because my God it's hard to migrate here smoothly...