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God of War:Ragnarök and Elden Ring swept major game awards for 2022. Consequently, everyone thought one of the two games was going to receive the British Academy (BAFTA) Video Games Award for best game on March 30. The result? A one-man developed indie game: Vampire Survivors.Vampire Survivors is a
Analysis
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2023.04.14 02:19
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The 95th Academy Awards was a series of upsets by underdogs. Brendan Fraser, who became famous for his role as Rick O’Connell in The Mummy trilogy two decades ago, made an incredible comeback, winning best actor for his role in The Whale. For the past recent years, Brendan Fraser’s life was in turmo
Analysis
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:02
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After their critical acclaim with the German sci-fi epic Dark, Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese are back with another Netflix sci-fi epic, this time, with more languages. Set in the eponymous year, 1899 follows a group of multinational migrants from Europe — each with their own secrets — on their way
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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Everyone is encouraged to ask questions. While most classes in KAIST are in English, the professors or teaching assistants (TAs) in charge of the class might not speak English as fluently. There is bound to be information about lectures and assignments that is figuratively and literally lost in tran
Op-Ed
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 23:11
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When Rogue One: A Star Wars Story came out, the idea of turning the opening crawl of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope into a movie seemed absurd. It looked like a classic Disney corporate move of squeezing out as much money they could from a franchise. Little did I know, Rogue One was better than
Review
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 22:06
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Eleven years on from its spectacular premier and three years since the disappointing finale, Game of Thrones (GoT) is back with a prequel show House of the Dragon (HotD). Set around two centuries before the main series, HotD tells the story of House Targaryen and the beginning of its fall leading to
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.09.25 22:43
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Follow Ellie Blueriver, an apprentice witch, who accidentally oversleeps and misses her train to her “witch intern” town. However, she encounters a nearby small village, which is devastated by thorny, vine-like vegetation that destroyed houses and chased away most of its villagers. It is now up to E
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.06.14 00:19
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The first 2022 TV series for Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is complete. From March 6, the six-part story of Moon Knight streamed on Disney+, ending on May 4. Moon Knight is the first MCU superhero to be introduced by a Disney+ series (of course, excluding the Netflix Marvel shows
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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Recently, in my “Logical Writing” (HS001) class, we learned about the stages of writing a paragraph. The first step — conceptualization — included choosing a topic and the target audience. Target audiences have always been one of the main concerns for entertainment, may it be movies, books, or music
Analysis
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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A whole new world full of story and adventure. You can discover the rarest items, uncover the deepest secrets, and travel from scorching deserts to freezing tundra. Welcome to open-world, the game mechanic that is sweeping through both the player and the developer communities. Mostly characterized b
Analysis
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2022.03.24 23:16
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For the last few decades, mankind, or at least the proportion that believes in climate change, have searched for more sustainable, renewable, non-carbon based energy sources to prevent the approaching climate apocalypse. Nuclear, solar, wind, and hydro-electric power sources have been developed and
Debate
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.12.18 20:03
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‘Twas the morning of October 25th, people carried on with their lives, researching in labs, going to work, or getting ready for class. Everything seemed like an average weekday morning, well of course, until the internet died. With the sudden information blackout, like panic buys in a shortage, peop
Column
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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On September 29, I participated in a book talk by Jeong You Jeong held by the KAIST library. She came to talk about her newest book, The Complete Happiness, which is about a narcissist driving everyone around her into misery for her own happiness. In relation to the book, Jeong talked about psycholo
Column
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:27
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For the last few weeks, you probably received a number of emails about book clubs, talks, online book fairs, and other events. This month, The KAIST Herald interviewed the Reading Promotion Committee (RPC), the organizer of these events, to find out who they are and what they do. Could you briefly i
Interview
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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What separates livestock and pets? What allows us to enjoy meat from livestock when the thought of eating pets disgusts us? What makes us see livestock as food and pets as family? To put it simply, it is the deep bonds formed between humans and pets that separate them. As human-centric and selfish i
Debate
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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When we were innocent children first encountering the vast abyss called the Internet, the very first thing we learned, hopefully, was to not believe everything on the Internet — may it be Wikipedia in its early days, fake profiles on Myspace, or random strangers chatting you up in chatrooms. It was
Column
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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In this age of multimedia franchises, movie adaptations of best-seller books are everywhere, while interestingly, the opposite — novelizations of acclaimed movies — seems pretty rare. Movie novelizations of action-packed sci-fi and thriller hits dominated book stores until the previous century; wher
Analysis
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.08.08 21:47
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The co-founder of the Cubist movement and the creator of constructed sculpture and collage. The artist who left over 5,000 artworks over his 90 years. A man who changed modern art forever — Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Now, to celebrate the 140th anniversary of his birth, meet his art in Seoul.Since May 1, t
Review
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.06.28 23:33
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We’re living in an age where influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube hold as much fame as, if not more than your average celebrity. We’re living in an age where “everyone [can] be world-famous for 15 minutes”. We’re living in an age that has been predicted by one 20th century artist: Andy Warh
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.05.22 17:37
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Since the 2000s, the rivalry between Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s Playstation has been a favorite topic among gamers, dubbed “the console war”. The most recent line of next-generation consoles — Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Series S and Sony’s PlayStation 5 — were released last November. However, wi
Analysis
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.04.26 01:24