NY Times: How Korean Pride Rallied to Save a Software Maker

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“As the Microsoft Corporation expands its dominance of the
world’s computer software markets, it has tried hard not to ruffle
the feathers of foreign governments and nationalists, who often
view the American software giant as a predator.

“Nevertheless, in maneuvering to gain control of the
lucrative market for Korean-language word processing software, it
set off a groundswell of opposition.”

“No one could have predicted that Koreans would have responded
the way they did to Microsoft,” said D. H. Oh, managing director of
IDC Korea, a brokerage house here. “It was probably the first time
that an entire nation, from the central Government to corporations
to private citizens, combined forces to save a local industry.”

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