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Netflix, TVing, Wavve, YouTube Premium, and Watcha. These are but a few names of media streaming services that supply Koreans today with an endless flood of video content. And as if this weren’t enough, Disney+ made its belated appearance to this already-overcrowded pool, hoping also to take full ad
Analysis
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.12.18 20:03
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Hongdae, the very heart of the Korean indie music scene, is home to a number of small theaters for young aspiring artists. And on one of its narrowly meandering streets, just two flights down from the noise and confusion filling up a typical Hongdae evening, hid the most special “garden” one is ever
Review
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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If you have ever taken a stroll with a Korean on a breezy mid-autumn afternoon where the sky is as clear as could be with the sunshine compensating for the slight chill in the air, you may have caught him say, “ah, the sky is high and the horses are fattening.”This Korean idiom perfectly sums up the
Analysis
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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When I opened the KAIST admissions results page on one fine spring morning in 2017 to find out that I was to spend a minimum of four years in an unknown land called Daejeon in the unfamiliar country of Korea, my mother, who had wished so dearly that I would one day settle in her familiar world so th
Op-Ed
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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Every Korean man that once stood under the sign “Korea Army Training Center” has heard it: “Everyone goes through it; why shouldn’t you be able to?” D.P., a Korean Netflix original series based on the webcomic D.P.: Dog’s Day, reveals the dark side of Korea’s military culture that has always been ov
Review
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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Have you ever wondered, “who cleans up after those who die alone?” or “what happens to the things they leave behind?” Released in May, Move to Heaven is a Korean Netflix original that may offer you some answers. The show follows a team of trauma cleaners who cleans out the rooms of the deceased, and
Review
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.06.28 23:33
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Since the day one of our ancestors decided to debone his lunch using a stick rather than his hands and teeth, humans were inventors and innovators. Only the brainy ones survived when nature challenged humans with hostility that required strategy over physical fitness. After generations of Mother Nat
Column
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.05.22 17:36
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“Minari grows well anywhere,” probably sums up the incredible resilience the Yi family shows against all challenges thrown at them. Minari, which has already won multiple major awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film alongside six Oscar nominations, is a semi-autobiogr
Review
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.04.26 01:24
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As part of our 50 Years of KAIST Feature, The KAIST Herald interviewed KAIST students, alumni professors, foreign professors, and administrative staff to get their insights on how much KAIST has changed over the years, their memories of KAIST, and what they think KAIST should focus on in the future.
Feature
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2021.03.28 16:33
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We’ve heard a lot about the “digital divide” — the less privileged drifting away from information and opportunities, the broadening gap between the rich and the poor, worsening intergenerational conflicts and all that. Sure, digital divide gives rise to the aforementioned issues and more, but this a
Analysis
Min Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2021.03.28 16:33
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I am writing this from one of the seats on the long U-shaped table on the fourth floor of the Academic Cultural Complex (ACC). It is 9:30 p.m. on a Monday, three weeks prior to the exam week. But the seats are already full of diligent students either working on end of term projects or studying into
Column
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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Frankly, no predictions in relation to COVID-19 will be 100 percent accurate, which makes 2021 a difficult year to foresee. Even if we tried to focus on non-COVID-related matters, it is hard to eliminate the effects the virus will still have on all aspects of our lives. Will the Olympics be pushed b
Feature
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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Starting last semester, I have been eating most of my meals alone in my dorm due to COVID-19. And being a busy KAIST student, I decided to make the most of this serene and precious break, which led to a habit of watching something from either YouTube or Netflix while eating. I filled the first few m
Column
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.11.20 22:35
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BTS hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and Blackpink recently released a new song, whose music video gained more than 10 million views on YouTube in just an hour. While K-pop idols are gaining international recognition, what topped all the buzz domestically this Chuseok turned out
People and Community
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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“Physically apart, emotionally together” was the Korean government’s slogan for this Chuseok. On the biggest Korean holiday of the year, citizens were advised to replace family gatherings with phone calls and gifts instead. Especially since Korea has recently seen a second big outbreak centered in S
Debate
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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Some things are only ever wrong, with no grey area — racism is one of them. While the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was still sweeping across the occidental world, things were going about as peacefully as they ought to here, until a Ghanaian TV personality based in Korea decided to one day break
Debate
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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Making an unnecessary fuss is often laughed at. On my flight back to Korea after spending a month with my family in Washington D.C. this February, I tried my best to ignore the curious stares of strangers at a single piece of clothing that made me the odd one out — a mask. Back then, wearing a mask
Column
Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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The first season of Hospital Playlist, which ranked number one on Netflix Korea for multiple weeks in a row, aired its final episode at the end of last month with huge success. As the most recent television series by Director Wonho Shin, who also directed the hit series Reply and Prison Playbook, Ho
Review
Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.06.23 01:47
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This Is Not What I Was Expecting — the title of the book pretty much sums up the author’s reflections on his marriage. In his latest book, cartoonist Jessoo reveals how he went from being cat-phobic and determined to stay single, to a happily married husband and loyal butler to three cats. He narrat
Review
Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.05.26 21:58
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“Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high…” I hear this line in Judy Garland’s voice whenever I read it in my head — and I can’t be the only one. While the poetic lyrics and her dreamy singing still touch our hearts almost a hundred years later, Garland herself may have been the one person that was
Review
Min Kim Head of Culture Division
2020.04.30 21:49