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.

789 articles found

Translated article

Food & nutrition

Why Egg Whites Turn White and Firm: Protein Denaturation

Protein denaturation is the unraveling of a protein’s carefully folded three-dimensional structure by heat, acid, or physical force, while its amino acid sequence stays intact. Thi

Translated article

Tourism studies

A Shop That Sells Without Taxes: The Duty-Free Shop

A duty-free shop sells goods to travelers leaving the country without customs duties or value-added tax. This article covers how duty-free shops began, why they can drop taxes, the

Translated article

Information technology

Strict When Sending, Lenient When Receiving: Postel's Law

How did the early internet keep working despite small differences between implementations? This article covers where Postel's Law (the Robustness Principle) came from, why it matte

Translated article

Film & media

Movement Traced from Live Action: Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is a technique in which live-action footage is projected one frame at a time and traced over to create realistic movement. We look at how it was invented, how it works,

Translation update pending

Design

White Space in Design: Creative Ways to Use Space

In design, 'white space' is often readily regarded as a simple background or empty space. In reality, however, white space (margins) is an important element that brings out creativ

Translated article

Statistics

An Easy Guide to Understanding Reliability and Validity

Reliability and validity always come up when studying surveys in statistics, marketing, or opinion polling. This guide uses two illustrated examples, shooting and makeup, to make t

Translated article

Film & media

The Power of Scenes That Run Without a Cut: The Long Take

What effects does a long take, filming one scene at length without editing, create? This article covers what a long take is, Bazin's ideas, realism and tension, examples such as Ro