Skip to content
GK LibraryA home for curious minds
English
Browse articles

Articles to explore

You are browsing the English interface. Articles without a published translation are clearly marked and open in Korean.

810 articles found

Translated article

Chemistry

Light That Blooms Without a Flame: Chemiluminescence

Chemiluminescence is the phenomenon in which energy released by a chemical reaction comes out as light instead of heat. This piece covers how excited molecules produce this ‘cold l

Translated article

Journalism & communication

Making Friends on the Screen: Parasocial Interaction

Parasocial interaction is the one-sided sense of face-to-face closeness we feel with media figures who don’t know us. This piece covers Horton and Wohl’s 1956 concept, the differen

Translated article

Film & media

The Camera That Circles Frozen Time: Bullet Time

Bullet time is a visual effect in which time seems to slow down or stop while the camera keeps moving around the scene at normal speed. This article explains how it differs from sl

Translation update pending

Earth science

The Science of Clouds: Reading the Signals in the Sky

Clouds are a familiar sight, yet few people understand how they form, what kinds there are, and what each one tells us. This article explains the principles of cloud formation, the

Translated article

Economics

Getting Sick from a Flood of Money: Dutch Disease

Dutch Disease is the phenomenon in which a sudden boom in one sector, such as natural resources, causes other export industries like manufacturing and agriculture to decline. This