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Sunhee Bae, a volunteer for this year’s NBC Olympic broadcasts, was kind enough to share some of her experiences in the Olympics, which give us a more excitingly peaceful and less political insight of the Olympics.
Interview
SangWook Ha Senior Staff Reporter
2018.03.29 15:12
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In throes of the recent PyeongChang Olympics, there have been contentious arguments on whether the Union Team proposed by the government was political lobbying that disregarded the players’ positions and futures.
Debate
SangWook Ha Senior Staff Reporter
2018.03.29 15:03
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Last season, it had been the season of the “Big Six”, when there were six well-qualified teams competing for the Premier League.
Column
SangWook Ha Senior Staff Reporter
2018.03.29 15:00
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When I was a child, like children are, I always knew exactly the things I wanted. Local forays into the territories outside the warm walls of home to the nearby mall had me always in paths circular in nature.
Column
Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 23:31
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When Mr. Oh, a 25-year-old and member of the North Korean military, stepped into his black military jeep on a cold winter afternoon on November 13, he must have thought out what he was going to do over and over in his head. The North Korean regime is infamous for its treatment of defectors; that is,
Feature
Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 23:01
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The common consensus that can be felt from various comments in news articles involving court cases against sexual crimes in several popular portal websites such as Naver or Daum is this: stricter punishment for those convicted. Public discontent has been growing, peaking during the 2016-2017 South K
Feature
Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 20:20
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What if you passed by someone or something lying in deadly pain, wrenched in the cold waters of the Styx? The good-willed member of society is obliged to assist, to guide, and to save. We should not, and must not, become the victims of cowardice and lethargy. This is when courage is needed and when the lone ordinary becomes the mystically heroic.
Column
Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.10.24 00:16
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For this issue of The KAIST Herald, we interviewed the KAIST library team to find out more about the recent remodeling project that has been going on since the beginning of this year.
Interview
Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 20:22
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One typical rainy autumn day in Vienna, Mrs. Wagner, my ninth grade history teacher, asked several minutes before class started, “Did you hear about what happened to Kim Jong-il? What do you think is going to happen now to North Korea?”
Column
Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 19:38
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Last year on November 26, the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education announced the Ministry of Education’s decision to grant the status of “specialized high school” (teukmokgo) to Daejeon High School, overcoming one of the major obstacles needed for the creation of an international school. The metropolitan office had initially intended to create an international school for grad
News
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:46
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Could you briefly introduce the KI House to our readers?The main focus of the KI House program is one-to-one. Unlike usual language centers or school programs that teach students in groups, we try to give as much attention as possible to the individual students with the professionally trained teaching staff we have. Also, most language centers create fixed time programs that the students have to f
Interview
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:44
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In this month’s issue of TheKAIST Herald, the obituarysection had to be replacedby an additional interview. Consequently, thiscolumn is dedicated to Professor Jung H. Shin,who has recently left us and I would like to askpolitely for the generous understanding of ourreaders.Professor Shin never took long to leave animpression on his students. He was verycasually dressed, quantified by a permutation
Column
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 19:50
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KAIST recently developed a new optical technique that can quantitatively analyze Alzheimer’s disease through holography.
News
Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2016.11.24 03:52
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Campus police are an organization employed by the school to protectthe students, faculty and memberson campus. With a vast majority of itsconstituents living in dorms or spendingnight shifts performing research inlaboratories, the campus police at KAISThave especially a lot on their shoulders.Even an interview time was hard toarrange, with constant work shifts and anemergency dispatch to the Depar
Interview
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.24 00:33
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Without the cause of death being given, itwas reported that Edward Franklin AlbeeIII, the prominent US playwright and three-times winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, has left thestage on September 16 at Montauk, New York. Sincethe emergence of American theater into worldwideprominence after World War II through the writingsof Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, EdwardAlbee was one who had fo
Obituary
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.24 00:25
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Returning students at KAISTwould all have experienced thesame feeling when they accessedthe school website to scavenge for humanities courses:shocked at the lack of empty spots to register for.The reason for this sudden disappearance of possibleclasses to take was due to a reduction of Korean-taughthumanities classes by the School of Humanities andSocial Sciences. Perhaps this issue would not have
Debate
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.24 00:00
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One night, mostcertainly on one ofthe paved asphaltroads of Korea, the inevitablehappened. A scream, a tear,and I was unconscious on the ground. Myfriends hurried next to me and I was carriedinto my dorm room.Next morning, I was dizzy on my bed. Ayawn rendered all other tests unnecessary.Alcohol. A lot of alcohol and dizziness. Self-deprecating acts of the night had given birth toa late sun and I
Column
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.23 23:52
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Internationally, on October 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific intergovernmental body first established in 1988, elected Hoesung Lee of the Republic of Korea as its new Chair. Six candidates had been nominated for the position and after a run-off with contender Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Hoesung Lee was elected by 78 votes to 56. The election took place in Dubrovn
Policies Today
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:37
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My first semester at KAIST never existed. Plato’s theory of Forms argues that it is the idea and not the material world of change that possesses the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. In high school, the image I had of college was far from that of studying at KAIST. Getting accepted into college was like knocking desperately on mystical wooden doors, searching for the door that would le
Column
Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:20