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For many students in Korea, both international and local, the act of joining clubs is not always necessarily out of passion for the club’s activities, but more often for the prospect of socialising and making friends. It’s common to see pre-existing friend groups entering many top-ranked universitie
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Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Open-world action-adventure games have always been the leaders of the video game industry. Every year, video game publishers please their audience with fresh, intriguing, and captivating titles. What makes the genre so popular, in my opinion, is the mystery behind every game’s setting. Imagine buyin
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Fuad Samadov Head of Culture Division
2024.03.23 00:49
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Spending an evening captivated by the rich instrumental tones and emotions at a music recital. Leisurely admiring colorful paintings while strolling through a museum. Enjoying the deft movements of dancers at a dance show. Oftentimes, these experiences seem like a luxury, especially during the busie
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Hae-Rim Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2023.12.19 00:37
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Lay-vay, loi-vay. Whichever pronunciation you choose, please don’t forget it the next time you introduce Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir. Garnering a whopping total of 12.3 million and counting monthly listeners on Spotify, she has created quite a stir in the modern jazz scene following a video essay from her
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Francis Erluph Barro Cabanting Junior Staff Report
2023.11.19 16:39
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If I surveyed KAIST’s international students and asked what their perception of a university party was before arriving in Korea, it would be a safe bet to assume most students’ responses would be vastly different from what they have since experienced. The most common portrayal of university parties
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Justin Jae Young Kim Head of Culture Division
2023.11.19 16:38
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Whenever I visit The Hyundai Seoul, the most popular mall in Seoul, I am always amazed by the long queues outside luxury brand stores like Dior and Gucci. What’s truly astonishing is that most of the people in line are women in their 20s to early 30s who are already carrying a handbag of another lux
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Sung-Bin Park Junior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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Jujutsu Kaisen is an anime and manga series that follows the life of three student sorcerers and their teacher Gojo — the most powerful sorcerer in the series — as they join a secret organization to battle curses and evil sorcerers using their supernatural powers to protect humanity from dark forces
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Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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Released on the same day in July, the long-awaited Barbie and Oppenheimer have already grossed over 2 billion USD at the global box office. The worldwide success can be attributed to “Barbenheimer’s” massive following on the Internet and mass media. A stark distinction between the two movies’ visual
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Fuad Samadov Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:41
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It’s that time of the year again when we hear about all the different perspectives on Pride Month celebrations and the LGBTQ+ community everywhere, all at once. There will be people marching in the streets, all around the world, to advocate for queer inclusion and against discrimination, and there w
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Senior Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:05
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The Guardians of the Galaxy series has gained significant attention due to its unique blend of humor, action, and engaging storytelling. The most recently released Vol. 3 is also doing what only a few movies have ever done: it portrays a compassionate story about animal testing, which has sparked di
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Eugene Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:05
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie, after their successful weekend opening, is now the fifth highest grossing animated film and 24th highest grossing film. While these facts are impressive on their own, what makes them more impressive is that The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a movie adaptation of a video gam
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2023.05.21 16:23
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The recent World Chess Championship gave us our first Chinese World Chess Champion: Ding Liren. Ding’s journey to the title was straight out of fiction, requiring improbable dominoes to fall exactly as they did. To commemorate his historic win, here are the top five moments from Ding’s rise to the t
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2023.05.21 16:23
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God of War:Ragnarök and Elden Ring swept major game awards for 2022. Consequently, everyone thought one of the two games was going to receive the British Academy (BAFTA) Video Games Award for best game on March 30. The result? A one-man developed indie game: Vampire Survivors.Vampire Survivors is a
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2023.04.14 02:19
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Counter-Strike is a name synonymous with the pro gaming scene, and has been since the early 2000s. As one of the first competitive renditions in the first-person-shooter (FPS) genre, tournaments have been played in the Counter-Strike format since 2001, and are ongoing today. The Counter-Strike that
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Justin Jae Young Kim Head of Culture Division
2023.04.14 02:19
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The 95th Academy Awards was a series of upsets by underdogs. Brendan Fraser, who became famous for his role as Rick O’Connell in The Mummy trilogy two decades ago, made an incredible comeback, winning best actor for his role in The Whale. For the past recent years, Brendan Fraser’s life was in turmo
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:02
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“What a nice, functioning library!” I thought to myself while wandering around the halls of E9 for the very first time. Coming from a country where you even forget the existence of libraries, it was such a refreshing sight to see neatly organized up-to-date books complemented with an Instagram-able
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:02
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Celebrating the start of a new year is a strictly human phenomenon. Humans across the globe decided to label time, by dissecting it and recording it down to days, months, years. The invention of the calendar has changed the nature of time, castrating it as gods did with Kronos’ Scythe. What belonged
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Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2023.02.09 02:57
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A large proportion of the stress of university applications derives from the underlying desire to attend a well-known, reputable institution. No matter what students may say, no one wants to have to explain where and what kind of university they attend when asked. The ability to simply state the nam
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Justin Jae Young Kim Head of Culture Division
2022.12.08 13:44
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Since the early days of my childhood, Trading Card Games (TCGs) were one of my biggest fascinations, a fervor that refused to die out. However, the times have changed. The world accelerates at a daunting speed, leaving behind traditional forms of entertainment and opening new horizons with digital p
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Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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“It’s time to BeReal!” BeReal, a French social media app founded in 2020 that surged in popularity among Gen Z this past year, is a ticking mental clock that keeps users in suspense as they eagerly wait for the daily notification to drop.Every day, all users are simultaneously notified at a random t
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Mira Dhingra Junior Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 23:11