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On February 27, DRB-KAIST Sketch the Future Research Center was established in collaboration with the Dongil Rubber Belt (DRB) company, marking a new era of ultrafast productivity by combining three-dimensional sketching, generative AI, and virtual reality. The opening ceremony, held at the Departme
News
Francis Erluph Barro Cabanting Junior Staff Report
2024.03.23 00:49
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To address the incident during the most recent commencement exercises, an open forum was held on February 26 at the Auditorium (E15). The forum, organized by the Undergraduate Association (UA) Emergency Response Committee , aimed to discuss the events and implications of the security measu
News
Jan Brey Espia Head of News Division
2024.03.23 00:49
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KAIST, in partnership with Hyundai Motor Group, established the “Hyundai Motor Group-KAIST On-Chip LiDAR Development Joint Laboratory” on February 21. The new laboratory is composed of 30 researchers from the School of Electrical Engineering, including Professor Sanghyeon Kim, Professor Sangsik Kim,
News
Afridi Muhammad Khubaib Alam Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Spring has sprung, the sun is out, and soon cherry blossoms will decorate the campus with pink petals! As the world awakens from its winter slumber, what better way to embrace its spirit than through the pages of a breathtaking book? Herald has compiled a list of the best book recommendations to sat
Review
Ospanova Rozaliya Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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For many students in Korea, both international and local, the act of joining clubs is not always necessarily out of passion for the club’s activities, but more often for the prospect of socialising and making friends. It’s common to see pre-existing friend groups entering many top-ranked universitie
Analysis
Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Open-world action-adventure games have always been the leaders of the video game industry. Every year, video game publishers please their audience with fresh, intriguing, and captivating titles. What makes the genre so popular, in my opinion, is the mystery behind every game’s setting. Imagine buyin
Analysis
Fuad Samadov Head of Culture Division
2024.03.23 00:49
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In 2021, award-winning director Denis Villeneuve captivated the world with his adaptation of the notoriously “unadaptable” masterpiece by Frank Herbet — Dune. Three years later, Villeneuve once again leaves audiences in awe with Dune: Part 2, a sci-fi cinematic experience that will remain unmatched
Review
Benedict Fabia Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Why did you choose this course?I have always had an interest in management and economics. However, Korean high schools focus too much on major subjects and offer extremely limited and shallow economics classes. Naturally, when I found out that KAIST offered an economics class, I had to apply for it.
Herald Asks You
Hyunseung Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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How has this course influenced your understanding of Korean history as you look through films of the time compared to academic and historical learning?Apart from the obvious fact that the movies are much more entertaining and captivating for most people, including me, to learn about Korean history,
Herald Asks You
Afridi Muhammad Khubaib Alam Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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White rhinoceros are one of the most interesting cases of somewhat successful wildlife conservation. White rhinos, once fewer than 100 individuals in the early 1900s, are now the most abundant rhino subspecies, reaching a population of 20,000 and outnumbering all other rhino subspecies combined.Whit
Spotlight
Hyunseung Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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South Korea's fertility rate has plummeted to a new record low of 0.72 in 2023, continuing a trend that positions it as the country with the world's lowest fertility rate among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This dramatic decline, far below the repla
Opinion
Muhammad Faizan Zahid Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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On January 5, 2024, Alaska Airlines’ Flight 1282 — operated by a Boeing 737 MAX 9 flying from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California — experienced a sudden and uncontrolled decompression of the aircraft cabin just minutes after takeoff. A loud noise accompanied the oxygen masks that dropped from th
Editorial
Alazar Teka Gemechu Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Compiled by A. Kim, S.Y. Lee, B. Al-Hadithi, C. RyuDesigned by N. M. Hieu
Feature
ChaeYeon Ryu Editor-in-Chief
2024.03.23 00:49
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Established in July 2022, the KAIST Graduate School of Metaverse is an emerging hub of research that applies an understanding of humanities, enterprise, and STEM-based problem-solving to create and share new experiences in games, education, cultural arts, healthcare, and manufacturing fields. The sc
Feature
ChaeYeon Ryu Editor-in-Chief
2024.03.23 00:49
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A new research recently released by Bain & Company shows that the metaverse could be worth 900 billion US dollars by 2030, despite the recent news that interest in the metaverse is declining. The report presented by Bain & Company, “Removing Overcomparison from the Metaverse,” states that the metave
Feature
Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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The metaverse is a term that encompasses various fields such as virtual reality, augmented reality, digital economy, social interactions, and interoperability. In recent years, South Korea has become a leader in this field. This innovative leap is the result of a great amount of investments, governm
Feature
Suyoun Lee Head of International Division
2024.03.23 00:49
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The metaverse. What even is that? A technology we disregard as an empty promise because we are skeptical of it? We tend to fall back on science fiction when we try to imagine the future of augmented reality, but was there anyone who correctly predicted the state of the current internet when it first
Feature
Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Print Format
ChaeYeon Ryu Editor-in-Chief
2024.03.23 00:49
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Dear Readers, My first spring at KAIST was two years ago. I was waiting in line outside the main auditorium to take my PCR test, wearing a KF-80 mask under the March air that still bore a tinge of coldness. It was that time in history when, unbeknownst to the whole world, a virus stole the stage spo
Letter
ChaeYeon Ryu Editor-in-Chief
2024.03.23 00:49
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Cartoon
Nguyen Minh Hieu Cartoonist
2024.03.23 00:49