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Most galbi-jjim recipes open with soaking the ribs in cold water for a couple of hours to draw the blood out. This one has no such step. Instead the ribs get seared hard over high heat, and then braised. It’s chef Ryu Su-young’s recipe, and it’s my three boys’ favorite dish in any season — they scrape the pot and mix the sauce into their rice. Buy ribs, get them going, cook rice while they braise, and dinner is done inside an hour. ...

Chicken simmered in water is hard to get wrong, so don’t be nervous about this one. Buy one pack of cut-up chicken, simmer it 30 minutes, and you’re done. Put mild mustard in the dipping sauce and it tastes like the dak hanmari restaurants serve. Then cook instant noodles in the leftover broth instead of kalguksu… ah, it’s good. At a glance Ingredients 1 chicken, cut up for dakbokkeumtang broth vegetables (onion 1, potato 1, whole peppercorns 20, scallion 2 stalks) seasoning (soy sauce1, salt1) dipping sauce (chicken broth4, gochugaru2, soy sauce2, vinegar1, sugar1, plum syrup1, minced garlic1, mild mustard to taste) Prep ...

When your kids won’t eat vegetables, doenjang-jjigae becomes an awkward thing to make. You can load it with zucchini, onion, and tofu, and they’ll still only drink the broth. So my three boys and I struck a deal. Potato, cut into small dice, a few pieces each. And in exchange, plenty of meat goes in. At a glance Ingredients rice water beef or pork (as much as you want) seasoning (doenjang1, noodle soup base2, gochujang0.5, gochugaru0.5, minced garlic0.5) vegetables (potato 1) optional: any vegetables you want Prep ...

Have you ever looked up a recipe for suyuk — Korean boiled pork, sliced and eaten with a dipping sauce? Doenjang, instant coffee, bay leaves, whole peppercorns. They all go in, and they’re all there for one reason: to cover the smell of pork. Once you’re rounding up five things before you start, suyuk stops being a weeknight dish. This version uses no water at all. One bottle of soju goes in, and you simmer until it’s gone. ...

If your kids can’t handle heat, jeyuk-bokkeum is hard to put on the table. Leave out the gochujang and it tastes flat; leave it in and you’re cooking a second batch for the children. So the gochujang’s place is filled with soy sauce, plus a cup of pear juice. On days you want it spicy, swap 3 of the 6 tablespoons of soy sauce for gochujang. Everything else is identical between the two versions. ...

Open the app — Text to Speech Have you ever read your own writing out loud? Sentences that looked fine on screen suddenly snag when they leave your mouth. A clause that runs too long, a word you used twice, a phrase that doesn’t quite land. But reading aloud every time is a chore. In an office you feel watched, and with a long piece your throat gives out. It would be easier if someone else read it — though signing up for a TTS service just for that feels like too much. ...

Open the app — Classical Jukebox Have you ever wanted classical music on in the background while you work, only to burn the time deciding what to play? Streaming services want you logged in first, and YouTube cuts in with ads. All you wanted was “some Baroque, anything,” but picking an album and then picking a track comes first. Old out-of-copyright recordings are piled up in the archives, yet searching there directly pulls up audiobooks and lectures alongside the music. ...

Open the app — East Asian Chronology Have you ever stopped at a date written as Chongzhen, the byeongja year while reading an old text? It gives you an era name and a cycle year, and what that is in Western years does not come to mind. By the time you have opened a chronology table, found the era, counted from the accession year and matched the cycle, your reading has lost its thread. ...

Download — File Organizer (for Windows) Have you ever backed up your phone’s photos to a PC, then opened that folder months later? Thousands of files sit in one DCIM folder, named IMG_2381 or 20240115_143022 and nothing else. To find out when a picture was taken, you have to open it. It gets worse the second and third time you back up. You cannot tell which photos you already copied, so the same shots pile up folder after folder. They eat the disk, and you cannot safely delete any of them because you do not know which is which. ...

Open the app — Joseon Palace Maps What do you do when a hall name like Huijeongdang or Bihyeonhap turns up in the Annals or a royal protocol? You recognize the name, but where in the palace it stood refuses to come into focus. Unrolling the Donggwoldo and scanning it by eye is no small task — one small cell among thousands of tiny inscriptions. This site works the other way round. Type the name and it is marked on the painting. So far 2,503 locations have been placed. ...

Image: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/getting-started-with-regex/ Did you try the examples from my previous post A Taste of Regular Expressions? Practical skills (what we call “experience” or “know-how” in Korea) don’t develop just from understanding the method. You gain experience by trying once, failing twice, and getting stuck three times. This time, let’s work through some regex examples that you can use directly in real work. Regular expressions start with patterns and end with patterns. Regex is expressing those patterns using a defined syntax. ...

Image: https://towardsai.net/p/l/regular-expression-regex-in-python-the-basics I used to revise a manuscript of several hundred pages dozens of times until my eyes turned red. I had to revise and re-revise things countless times—when guidelines changed, when I found typos, or when I needed to standardize terminology. Yes, that was me. Haha;;; After learning regular expressions, I finished work that would have taken a week in just 1-2 hours! For researchers who need to write papers or organize and process data, For journal coordinators who need to manage documents of dozens or hundreds of pages, For publishers who need to edit books year-round, And for translators who work with texts written in various languages— After learning regex, your world will be divided into “before regex” and “after regex.” ...