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In times of “personalized everything” and countless choices at our fingertips, it is only natural that people’s expectations just continue to grow. However, for the sake of our own happiness and perhaps a little more simplicity in life, it seems important to remind ourselves that the perfect choice does not always exist.
Column
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.09.25 20:32
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The rationale for the need for menstrual leave is valid and well-intentioned. However, in the context of the grading system in universities, the abuse of the policy to evade attendance penalties cannot be ignored — or simply left to the morals of students.
Debate
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.09.25 17:27
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The opening ceremony of the project “Youngjae Kium”, supervised by the Ministry of Education, took place on May 12. “Youngjae Kium” is a project that supports talent-focused education for students who are not able to reach their potential due to socioeconomic barriers.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.06.20 07:51
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On May 30, Dong Hun Kim — the representative of Handstudio — visited the Startup KAIST Studio for a lunch talk titled, “A Story of a Company that Dreams of a 0% Resignation Rate over Sales of 10 Billion”.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.06.20 07:46
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A research team at KAIST has further extended our understanding of drug-drug interaction (DDI) and drug-food interaction (DFI) with the development of a computational framework called DeepDDI.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.06.19 22:27
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Celebrating April as the month of science, Bruno Martinaud was invited to the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) to share his entrepreneurial insights with the KAIST community over lunch.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.06.19 22:18
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The planning of this year’s KAIST Art and Music Festival was interrupted by a controversy regarding the casting of THORNAPPLE — an indie rock band that has been caught up in a heated controversy regarding comments made by the vocalist Sung Hyun Yoon.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.04.11 13:53
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The research team led by Professor Do Kyung Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has succeeded in developing an Li-S battery that uses the concept of capillary action.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.04.11 13:50
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Earlier this month, the 2018 First Half-Year KAIST · POSTECH · UNIST Career Fair was hosted on campus. It took place over three days from March 6 to March 8 in the Lyu Keun-chul Sports Complex (N3) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.03.29 02:00
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A joint research team led by Professor Sukbok Chang and Professor Mu-hyun Baik from the Department of Chemistry achieved a breakthrough — coming up with a new strategy for synthesizing this ring-shaped molecule from readily available hydrocarbons in nature.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.03.29 01:53
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A group of South Korean scientists from Yonsei University has made a breakthrough in the treatment of hair loss. Previous treatments that control the speed of hair growth have had limited effects on hair loss that has already progressed and caused side effects due to the suppression of male hormones. Hence, there was an evident need for a new approach to treating hair loss.
Highlights
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 22:00
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Back in 1925, scientists speculated, “Energized, radioactive particles might zip through the booms and flashes of a thunderstorm.” From a mere conjecture, this idea was confirmed by Teruaki Enoto, a physicist at The University of Tokyo
Highlights
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 21:45
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The American sci-fi film Gattaca from 1997 presents us with a future society where children are conceived through genetic manipulation in order to endow them with the best hereditary conditions. Now, two decades later, designer babies have become an intense topic of discussion that challenges some of our most intrinsic and fundamental values.
Column
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 20:30
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Controversial reports featuring influential and famous figures accused of sexual harassment have become an almost routine part of the news. Only a few weeks ago, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” This single tweet
Feature
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 20:03
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Researchers at ETH Zurich University have come up with a scale for weighing individual cells.
Highlights
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.11.20 22:29
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On August 9, President Moon announced the government’s new healthcare plan to expand healthcare and reduce the burden of medical expenses. The new policy has invited both acclamation and controversy, which are inevitable as the so-called “Moon Jae-in Care” would transform many aspects of the healthc
Feature
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.23 23:57
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The research team led by Professor Sang Ouk Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed a technique for manufacturing semiconductors using camera flashes.
News
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:53
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A team of biochemical researchers at Johns Hopkins University has sparked the possibility of creating “soft” robots by using DNA sequences to cause shape-changing in hydrogels.
Highlights
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:18
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A whole new style of art exhibitions where the visitors play a part is beckoning this fall.
Weekend
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 20:53
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A team of South Korean scientists from Hanyang University recently collaborated with scientists from the University of Texas to develop high-tech yarn that generates electricity.
Highlights
Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.09.22 17:10