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Dear readers,As consumers of information, our primary concern is no longer the lack of its availability; rather, it is the indiscriminate overconsumption of it. Inaccurate, misleading, or outright false information run more rampant with each passing day. What I find most troubling is that day by day, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from what is true and what is not.Today’s p
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.06.03 22:06
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Dear readers,Who are we? Why are we here? What is our purpose? Such are the fundamental questions that keep me awake at night from time to time. However, to claim that I would be the first of my kind to raise such questions could not be any more arrogant and myopic. Many great philosophers, like Descartes, Hume, and Nietzsche, have offered profound ontological insights surrounding the meaning, pur
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.05.03 22:55
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Dear readers,to be frank, I am surprised at how quickly the semester, let alone this year, has gone by. Back in September, as the new Editor-in-Chief of The KAIST Herald, I promised to the readership to uphold a certain set of values within our newspaper. In my first Letter from the Chief, I pledged to commit myself to spreading the truth and fighting the power. Reflecting back on the semester so
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.03.29 23:05
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To whom it may concern,I am uncertain as to whether or not anyone will read this letter upon publication, and I am more uncertain if it will have any effect on the administration. Nonetheless, based on my limited knowledge of the current plans for KAIST’s future, I am humbly submitting this letter via the newspaper while also fulfilling my job as a Herald reporter this month. On the whole, m
Column
Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 22:30
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Dear readers,For many college students, March marks the beginning of the spring semester, and along with it, fresh starts on multiple fronts. For the incoming freshmen, they are standing before more or less four years of college life ahead of them. The path lying ahead is teeming with endless possibilities; where the path will take them depends on the choices they make. The path is analogous to th
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.03.29 22:19
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Dear readers,autumn. It announces its arrival by greeting us with the embrace of the howling breeze and the sight of falling leaves every morning. Out of all the other seasons in Korea, people seem to be particularly fond of autumn. As traditional Korean sayings go, autumn is the season of Cheongomabi — a prosperous time when skies are clear and the horses get fat. It is also the perfect sea
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2016.11.26 17:27
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Dear readers, as musician Jimi Hendrix once said, “When the power of love overcomes the love for power, the world will know peace”. In light of recent events, our world as we know it seems to be heading in the completely opposite direction of peace. Those holding power have failed to wield it responsibly; instead they have allowed themselves to be tainted by their primal lust for power and desire
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2016.11.26 17:12
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There I was, sitting at the end of the roundtable in The KAIST Herald newsroom, feeling the weight of all the eyes on me. How excruciating it was to realize that every word that left my mouth would determine my first impression on the people evaluating my potential as a Herald reporter. Never before in my life have I been more stressed over and attentive to each and every word. Yet, when asked the
Letter
Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2016.11.10 21:57
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Many high-grossing blockbusters these days consist of big budget movies strewn with CGI, over-the-top explosions, and hectic stunt scenes. Every once in awhile, however, cinemagoers may find respite from movies that parade sex and violence to garner the audience’s attention and refresh their eyes on down-to-earth movies that focus more on the actors’ dialogue and social interactions with one anoth
Weekend
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:38
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From November 21 to February 8, 2015m the KAIST Art and Design Committee is hosting the ‘Artificial Intelligence and Evolution of Robots’ exhibition, at the KAIST Institute (KI) building (E4).Over the past few years, the Art and Design committee, led by Myung-Suk Kim, has continued to organize various exhibitions under the theme of merging science and art. The first exhibition, “Eyes to the Sky” (
News
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:13
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On November 1, at the Creative Learning Building (E11), a student leadership organization called the KAIST Leadership Executing Team (KAIST-LET) invited 120 children from various welfare centers all over the Daejeon and Sejong region to participate in “The Golden Bell Challenge”. “The Golden Bell Challenge” is based on the famous Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) quiz show &
News
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:11
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Although plastics are versatile, lightweight and economically viable material with invaluable industrial applications, they are unable to transfer heat efficiently. In response to plastic’s such weakness, Material Science and Engineering Professors Kevin Pipe and Jinsang Kim from the University of Michigan have amalgamated short strands of polyacryloyl piperidine (PAP) with polymer chains of polya
Highlights
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:02
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Doctor Daniela Salvemini, and her team from Saint Louis University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a way to quell pain in animal models of chronic neuropathic pain. Testing on rodents has shown that the activation of the A3 Adenosine Receptor (A3AR) in the brain and spinal cord through a synthetic drug can successfully neutralize chronic nerve pain. This technique of pai
Highlights
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:01
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On November 10 in the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas Hotel and on November 11 in the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) The KAIST Institute of Entrepreneurship (IE) held the KAIST IE 2014 Forum, in which participants discussed how to create entrepreneurship-friendly ecosystems in Korea as well as help Korean startups go global. To gain more insight into the forum, the KAIST Herald interviewed two key
Society
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:52
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After a long day filled with assignments and quizzes, I sat in front of my laptop inside my dorm room to blow off some steam. Just as I turned on some music, however, an irritated shriek immediately came from my stuck-up roommate; “Can you please not? I’m trying to study here.” For a moment I felt immensely guilty for being a disturbance to those who were trying to study around m
Column
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:44
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On October 11, the 4th annual Chung Moonsoul Science Journalism Award ceremony was held in KAIST Seoul Dogok campus. The award was presented to Hankyoreh for its debunking of scientifically unfounded rumors circulating the web regarding the Sewol ferry tragedy. The awards in the broadcasting and Internet category were presented to JTBC and Ohmynews, respectively.Every year, the Chung MoonSoul Scie
News
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:00
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In an animal study conducted by the Society for Neuroscience, which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on October 29, researchers provided a test group of adolescent rats with daily doses of alcohol. These rats were found to have displayed significantly lower levels of myelin in their prefrontal cortexes than did other rats that were given sweetened water. The shortage of myelin, a fatty
Highlights
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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There is More to College Education than CreditsBy Young Jip KimThe KAIST Herald Junior Staff ReporterMany eager students seek to study certain subjects on their own and receive credits by passing the course waiver exam. Their reasons include early graduating, relief of workload for the semester, or simply the feeling they would rather focus on certain classes instead of dwelling on courses they ar
Debate
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:21
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Researchers from Duke University have fashioned a “gigapixel whole-body photographic camera” out of 34 micro-cameras. The camera can image the whole human body and identify lesions on the skin that indicate skin cancer; the technology’s early detection of skin cancer drastically increases the chances of the patient’s recovery. According to researcher Daniel Marks, “a
Highlights
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:46