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Should games be regulated? Absolutely. If playing games is considered a valid cultural activity just as listening to music or watching movies is, regulating them would be no different from movies being rated a certain alphabet-number combination or lyrics of certain songs being replaced with a less profane alternative. So the more important question is, to what extent should games be regulated? Th
Gaming
Dongwon Cha Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 23:11
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Thirty billion Korean Won. That’s the amount of money a game developing company called Nexon invested over four years to develop their next-generation first-person shooter (FPS) game. And it failed catastrophically. Welcome to the “short” story of Sudden Attack 2, and how the current gaming industry in Korea led to the demise of a game that may have been doomed before it was even
Gaming
Dongwon Cha Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 23:07
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Should games be regulated? Absolutely. If playing games is considered a valid cultural activity just as listening to music or watching movies, regulating them would be no different from movies being rated a certain alphabet-number combination or lyrics of certain songs being replaced with a less profane alternative. So the more important question is, to what extent should games be regulated? That
Gaming
Dongwon Cha Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 03:25
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30 billion Korean Won. That’s the amount of money a game developing company called Nexon invested for 4 years to develop their next-generation first-person shooter (FPS) game. And it failed catastrophically. Welcome to the “short” story of Sudden Attack 2, and how the current gaming industry in Korea led to the demise of a game that may have been doomed before it was even release
Gaming
Dongwon Cha Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 02:55
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When Google decided to go the extra mile with regard to their level of mischief for an April Fool’s Day joke back in 2014 by introducing Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge, it raised quite a fervor; indeed, so-called “Pokémon trainers” around the world searched meticulously on Google Maps to find Pokémon hidden across the world. Although the game itself (if it co
Gaming
Dongwon Cha Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.14 21:01
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Professor Sang-Min Bae’s team from the Department of Industrial Design here at KAIST received three awards for the 2015 Red Dot Award: Design Concept competition, one of the biggest and most prestigious design awards. They were presented with The Red Dot: Best of the Best, a top prize reserved for the ground-breaking works in their respective categories, for BOXCHOOL, and two The Red Dot awards fo
News
Dongwon Cha Editor-in-Chief
2015.11.09 07:06
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A joint research team composed of professors and graduate students from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Biological Sciences at Seoul University, in collaboration with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, were successfully able to determine the principle behind the jumping movement of a pond skater on water, and implement it
Highlights
Dongwon Cha Editor-in-Chief
2015.11.09 06:59
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The upcoming concert list for the 2014-2015 winter break makes this vacation a highly anticipated one for music fans. However, there are still obstacles ahead before we can enjoy these concerts to the fullest. To start off, there’s the problem of ticket reservation. Much like at 12:30 p.m. on course registration day here in KAIST, many concerts release their tickets at a specific time and date. Th
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 05:38
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In recent years, more and more musicians from around the world have set foot upon Korea to perform their splendid musical talents. A mere month ago, Michael Bolton performed live in Seoul on November 21 and 22, and a few days later, Jason Mraz toured around Korea performing his hit songs such as “Lucky” and “I’m Yours”. Even if you missed out on what probably would have been literally “music to my
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 05:38
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Ask anyone from Daejeon the question, “Where in your hometown would you recommend a fun night out?” I would bet that nine out of ten people would probably say something along the lines of, “There is nowhere to go to in Daejeon.” And while Daejeon is home to a number of tourist spots, not too many come to mind when trying to recommend one to an outsider, but there is this on
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 23:42
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From hunter-gatherers of the Neolithic Era to university students of the modern age, drinking alcohol has been (and still is) an integral part of adult life. Whether it is used in social gatherings as an icebreaker, or used to indulge oneself with the euphoria one gets upon its consumption, alcohol is enjoyed by people all over the world. Naturally, there is a drinking culture unique to each part
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:48
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Homer Simpson once toasted, “To alcohol! The cause of … and solution to … all of life’s problems.” He may not be the brightest animation character around, yet his simple but elegant toast shines. Indeed, the intake of alcohol offers both solutions and problems to our lives. While we would love to go on about how alcohol is such a great beverage, we will play the dev
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:48
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[Weekend] Watch or Watch NotThere is no try. Entertaining our summers, science fiction movies have become a fundamental part of our hottest season. This summer was no expectation. The KAIST Herald invites reader to sci-fi movies. A silent black-and-white film with a running time of 10 minutes at 24 frames per second portrayed the moon with a man's face and a rocket landed in its right eye. This w
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.01.18 12:50
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[Weekend] Watch or Watch NotThere is no try. Entertaining our summers, science fiction movies have become a fundamental part of our hottest season. This summer was no expectation. The KAIST Herald invites reader to sci-fi movies. Time loops have always been a topic of interest for the science film genre; Looper, Frequency, even Harry Potter, the list goes on. But Edge of Tomorrow is not your avera
Weekend
Dongwon Cha Staff Reporter
2015.01.18 12:41