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The suicide of Moon Bin, a member of the popular K-pop boy band Astro, came as a shock to many of his fans and the general public in mid-April. Known for his bright and energetic character, the fact that Moon Bin might have covertly struggled with mental health issues has stirred many people and onc
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Kyu-Ri Kim Staff Reporter
2023.05.21 16:23
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Last month, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) came under fire for a discriminatory special discount policy on Children’s Day. The original announcement said that up to two accompanying guardians of children would receive free admission to seven royal tombs and palaces on May 5, but children
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Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.05.23 21:56
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Around the world, from Brazil to Israel, Sudan to Australia, BLM protests are underway. Sparked by the movement against police brutality, discrimination, and racism in the United States, demonstrations have gone global - demanding change not only in the US but also in every national context. These p
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A. Carpenter and J. Palma
2020.06.10 19:31
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Throughout human history, the distinction between “us” and “them” has always been present. “Us” refers to people around our vicinity who may share the same language, religion, and customs. We are not responsible for “their” actions, and we are always distinct from “them” and owe “them” nothing. This
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Joon Ha Kim Head of Society Division
2020.03.23 18:18
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After working in a neuroscience laboratory for over a year, I still get excited whenever I tell my friends about my research. It was focused on investigating the expression and localization of a particular protein, and my experiments frequently involved imaging brain tissue slices. This required me
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Isabel Crisostomo Contributing Reporter
2019.11.27 17:13
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If the sun is shining, it must be warm outside. This has always been a reliable, indisputable fact of life. At least it was, until five years ago when I decided to move from the Philippines to South Korea as a high school student. I’ve gotten used to life in Korea since then, but the period in betwe
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Jaymee Palma Assistant Editor
2019.11.27 17:13
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HBO is known for producing quality entertainment: Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, and — more recently — Chernobyl are all watched by millions. This summer, right at the end of the school term in many countries, HBO released Euphoria — a captivating representation of a troubled teenager’s life that wa
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Bogdan Cuza Contributing Reporter
2019.11.20 22:23
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When Telltale Games employees arrived at the office on the morning of September 21, 2018, nothing of ill omen was apparent. In fact, things looked promising with high-profile projects on the horizon. The work on an adaptation of Minecraft: Story Mode for Netflix was in full swing, the studio had jus
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Assem Dikhayeva Junior Staff Reporter
2019.11.20 21:32
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Your screen time is up 24% from last week.I shamefully close this notification, which reminded me that, yet again, I used my phone too much. We are all guilty of being too attached to our smartphones, whether it be because of answering messages from friends or simply browsing through social media to
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Jaymee Palma Assistant Editor
2019.11.18 16:38
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I promise that this will be my last piece on trump. I really do. Well… we’ll see what happens next week. Hopefully Trump won’t do anything worth mentioning. I say this and yet, deep inside my heart, I know that the Trump train never stops. As President-elect of the US, Trump, in his typical bombastic and Trump-esque fashion, made headlines by appointing controversial figures to
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 23:58
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With over 700 million internet users, the Chinese population is more connected than any other society in the world. China is an important market for companies like Facebook, which wants to add a huge chunk of users to its existing 1.8 billion monthly users. But to the authoritarian Chinese government, the access to boundless information poses a threat to its control over free expression. Facebook
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:56
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For this month’s installment, by suggestion of a fellow reporter here in the Herald, I shall cover three bizarre stories related to crime and justice.Straight Out of TVOn November 24, two inmates successfully broke out of the Santa Clara County jail in San Jose, California. As if from an episode of Prison Break, four inmates (including the two that escaped) procured tools with which they cut
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:39
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On July 22 of this year, WikiLeaks, the controversial international publisher of leaked classified and secretive information, released emails and documents sent from and received by Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. In some of the emails, Podesta and Neera Tanden, one of Clinton’s closest advisers, express their concerns and criticisms regarding the candidate. In one of them, Ta
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 23:42
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Is Education on the Ballot?Unfortunately we will start with the 2016 US Presidential Election and the policies, or lack thereof, that the candidates have championed for education in America. Throughout the campaign, especially in the debates, it was difficult to capture a segment of the event where education had the spotlight. In fact, the unprecedented atmosphere of this year’s election clo
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Yehhyun Jo Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 15:36
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In black-bordered white numbers, the footage shows the day and time it was taken. “2016-09-20 15:51:30,” the digits spell out. Officers hide behind a white pickup truck, alternating between taking cover and pointing their handguns at a car next to the truck. The car door opens as a man wearing a white baseball cap comes out of the car and, arms lowered, takes a few steps backwards. Wit
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:02
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Recap Last month I lauded Nashville and Ohio’s efforts to integrate social-emotional education into their school curriculums. I appreciated their realization that leadership, responsibility, and interpersonal communication, among others, should be regarded as key aspects of a successful learning environment. That being said, let’s shift our attention to the Republic of Korea, where a v
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Yehhyun Jo Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 15:46
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The level of political involvement of the tech companies in the 2016 US presidential election was higher than ever, with over 57 million USD (over 98 percent of which went in support to the Democratic Party) donated to the elections. Back in July, over a hundred major tech companies signed an open letter against Donald Trump, calling him a “disaster for innovation”. The only high profi
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 13:02
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With the United States government deciding to back the self-driving car movement through federal auto safety regulators on September 19, the autonomous car industry has started to grow. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been focusing on creating the core software and systems. Tesla has been testing its self-driving vehicles for recent months. Uber is preparing to pick up passengers in se
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 12:56
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The expectations for the Galaxy Note 7 were extremely high. Many tech reviewers had praised the Galaxy Note 7 for it featured a glorious dual curved-edge display, an excellent battery life, and one of the best camera resolutions in the smartphone market. Samsung even had to postpone the release of the Note 7 in some markets as the production was not able to meet the demand of the new phone. Howeve
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2016.11.23 19:38
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Learn to Say Hello I read an interesting article the other day about Nashville’s educational reforms. It was interesting for two reasons. First, it had been a while since I read an article about Nashville, Tennessee of all places, especially with news headlines being dominated by an orange presidential election. Second, it was a policy change that surprisingly seemed to be a step in the righ
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Yehhyun Jo Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:46