You have a lot of options when choosing a cooking fat for a dish and each choice comes with its own unique perks and benefits. Take this recipe for Cod With Scallion-Sesame Butter, which includes not one, not two, but three fats, each with a specific purpose. There’s olive oil for searing, butter for richness,…
Korea’s exports reached US$55.4 billion in July, the biggest amount since it began tallying monthly data in 1956. They were powered by strong sales of the country’s 15 major export items including semiconductors and petrochemical products to nine key markets amid a global economic recovery. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Sunday that…
Kim Beom-su, the founder of mobile messaging giant Kakao, has become the richest man in Korea, overtaking even Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong. A self-made man, Kim (55) worked for Samsung SDS before establishing his own company.According to Bloomberg’s billionaire index on Friday, Kim is worth US$13.5 billion, beating Lee’s $12.3 billion. Third was Seo Jung-jin,…
Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong of the main opposition People Power Party resigned on Sunday so he is free to run in next year’s presidential election.Won told reporters he decided to take part in a presidential race “to protect the lives of the people.” “I am truly sorry to the people of Jeju for failing to…
Korea fell from 10th place in June to 23rd place last month in terms of its COVID-19 resilience rate due to slow vaccination. Bloomberg’s “resilience ranking,” which it has been keeping since last November, assesses the effectiveness of coronavirus pandemic responses by 53 countries based on “COVID containment, quality of healthcare, vaccination coverage and overall…
The government has promised that coronavirus vaccinations for all remaining adults will take place from Aug. 26 to Sep. 30. That is 17.8 million people aged 18 to 49, but more setbacks to the schedule are expected as many people over 50 have not been inoculated yet due to a shortage of vaccines. The government…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. At VentureBeat’s third annual Women in AI Breakfast at Transform 2021, leaders in AI and machine learning across industries came together to discuss some of the most urgent questions in the tech sector today, including what responsible AI and engineering means, and the…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The #1ReasonToBe panel has had a strong legacy at the Game Developers Conference. This year, it featured seven women from different parts of the world. They talked about why they’re game developers and how that came to pass at the recent online-only GDC.…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nintendo flat-out dominated video game national TV advertising for the first half of 2021. But depending on your programming of choice, you may not have noticed. Overall, the industry drove 3.73 billion TV ad impressions, with an estimated $32.4 million spent, according to…
MPs should be recalled to debate the “threat” of domestic vaccine passports, backbench Tories have argued. Andrew Bridgen, one of 43 Conservative MPs to sign a declaration opposing vaccine passports, said Parliament should be recalled from its summer recess if ministers are “serious” about asking people to show proof of their vaccine status to gain…
