As part of my continued (albiet slow) efforts at learning Korean, I decided I need more immersion.  Living in a Spanish-speaking country isn't exactly conducive to picking up Korean.  Enter the full power of MUIs.

A MUI is a Multilingual User Interface.  This enables corporations to standardize on Windows, Office, and whatever else in English, but allow a user to switch to a localized version.  I've been using a few MUIs for over a month or so, mainly for enhanced alternate input (the IMEs that ship with Windows don't have speech or handwriting recognition).

Today I'm finally changing the default interfaces for Windows and Office over to Korean.  Sure, I don't understand a lot of the text right now, but I know my way around the products enough get through most dialogs, and I should be able to pick out enough understanding if it's an unfamiliar one.

One interesting side effect of having IE in Korean is that many sites detect this, and thus display fully- or semi-localized versions of a page.