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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean
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A video capturing an otherworldly view of ice ripples in winter has mesmerized viewers on TikTok.
The clip was shared by @yoshi_bell and has amassed 9.5 million views since it was first posted on January 3. A caption shared with the video says: "My favorite part of winter, frozen ice ripples."
The video shows waves formed by frozen water ripples against a mountain backdrop under a bright blue sky. Some closer shots of the ice show air bubbles frozen beneath the surface.
"Normally, freezing is a slow enough process that transient phenomena like ripples get smoothed out. But with the right conditions, even ripples can get frozen in time," Nicole Sharp, a science communicator and aerospace engineer in Denver, Colorado, explains in an October 2023 blog post on her website about frozen ripples.
Ripples are "a banded pattern of wavelike disturbances" that usually occur in fluids but can also occur in solids, according to a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) post about ripples in ice water that were observed near Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire in January 2006.
The USRA post explains that the "formation of ripples by wind passing over a water surface is a classic example of an emergent phenomenon: small disturbances in the surface self-stabilize into a banded pattern when a current of one fluid (wind) passes over the surface of another (water)."
'Magical'
Viewers on TikTok were blown away by the frozen ripples captured in the viral clip.
User @taglioliniporcini said, "Oh i didn't know this existed... it looks so magical," while Manchu wrote, "Being frozen in motion is crazy."
TikToker Sir.bedbug commented: "This scratches my brain so good omg. I wish I was there. The way I would never leave lol."
User @inkedhigh97 wrote: "I didn't think this would happen. Must be insanely cold for the shape to freeze like that."
TikToker @kazikmechanik also wondered, "how is this even possible," while appleuser35525230 said, "This is new to me - have never seen water frozen this way!"
Another user, @Urfavginger<3 said: "The fact that it's so cold it froze in motion makes it even more beautiful."
And @thepinupmama commented: "it's amazing how the fluidity of the frozen water mimics the austere rigidity of the mountains behind."
Newsweek reached out to the original poster for comment via TikTok. This video has not been independently verified.
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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean
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