Pomegranate Tomato Salad, Squid Game, Morning Ritual

20211018, #breakfastdiary 242, 3°C/mostly clear, 31min/workout Toss together finely chopped tomato, pomegranate seeds, fried shallots (for a bit of crispy texture), and apple mint, then finish with a dressing of olive oil, wine vinegar, ABC cleanse juice, and herbs. #PomegranateTomatoSalad The single biggest reason KBS exists, as spelled out in Article 43, Paragraph 1 of the Broadcasting Act, is 'to establish a fair and healthy broadcasting culture and to efficiently carry out domestic and international broadcasting.' In other words, its reason for being is to make sure no one is unfairly excluded from broadcasting services — providing free service (beyond the basic license fee) to every household that owns a television, working to fix poor-reception areas, and guaranteeing equal access to information for the visually and hearing impaired through descriptive audio, captions, and sign-language broadcasts, turning all of that into the broadcasting standard. (...) That's precisely what citizens pay their license fee to KBS for, and in return KBS guarantees its employees a comfortable salary. Lee Seung-han, The Reason Public Broadcasting Exists It seems some lawmakers, during a National Assembly audit of the Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, criticized KBS for failing to make something like #SquidGame. But if KBS forgot the entire reason public broadcasting exists and went and made something like Squid Game, that would be the real thing worth criticizing.