That is also how the legislative process works, and is likely how the Koreans got in to this mess in the first place. Experts at the time identified IE6 and ActiveX as dominating the market and standardised on them^. If the web had converged on IE and ActiveX it wouldn't look as stupid as it does now. Back at the time it was arguably clever, it only looked ill-advised if you were a free-market thinker.

^ The cynic in me cheerfully suggests the experts were probably endorsed by Microsoft, at the time a colossus on the net and world's most successful web browser purveyor. Hard to get better pedigree experts. All recommending that people commit hard to Microsoft technologies.