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If I were to sum up my life philosophy in one word, that word would probably be “balance”. For as long as I can remember, my recipe for happiness was maintaining the delicate balance between the various aspects of my life I cared about: academics, relationships, physical and mental health. This pursuit of a work-life balance has been a lifelong challenge, especially due to my tendency to always want to fulfill my potential.
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 23:27
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Undergraduate Student Council (USC), PUUM, and the Transdisciplinary Fundamental Studies Deliberation Committee (Deliberation Committee) cohosted a public hearing to discuss what has been a highly controversial proposal to establish a new department/major: the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering (TSE).
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2017.11.20 22:00
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It’s been six months since the crowdsourced platform “Rally” (also translated from Korean as “Ah, please! Internet”) has launched its beta program.
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:49
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On August 31, Professor Dae-sik Im of the Department of Biological Sciences was appointed Vice Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) by President Jae-in Moon.
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2017.09.22 04:23
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Jiyoun Ha Cartoonist
2016.11.28 18:26
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The origins of the current price structure for KEPCO-generated power dates back to 1973, when the world was struck by one of the worst energy crises in modern history. During the Arab-Israeli war, Arab members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries imposed an oil embargo, sending oil prices, and hence energy prices, soaring. The progressive pricing system was thus introduced in
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:14
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Professor Minkee Choi’s team from the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have developed a new high-performance carbon-dioxide absorbent. His team has also succeeded in synthesizing moderate volumes of this new adsorbent, indicating that, unlike previous adsorbents, it is scalable and will mostly likely be commercialized industry. Their research was published online in
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:12
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Thomson Reuters, the multinational media and information company, named KAIST Asia’s Most Innovative University for 2016. On August 30, the company released “Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities,” a list that “identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.&rd
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:09
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Last month, China’s Chongqing University of Technology (CQUT) agreed to adopt KAIST’s Freshman English Program. CQUT’s Freshman English Camp will be organized by the KAIST School of Humanities and Social Sciences for the next three years. CQUT’s Freshman English Camp is modeled after KAIST’s “Academic English Camp”, which has been run by KAIST’s EFL
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:57
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In a month when KAIST made headlines for topping Reuter’s “Asia’s Most Innovative University” list, Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee became Asia’s first to receive the Bailey Award. Named after its namesake Professor James E. Bailey, who made pioneering contributions to the field of bioengineering, the award recognizes individuals who have made field-advancing con
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:47
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This September, Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced its first “Silicon Valley Internship Program” (SVIP), which will train and send students to Silicon Valley in a bid to cultivate “globally aware tech entrepreneurs”. This internship program, which is co-organized by MSIP and the KAIST Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy, is
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:38
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September was the first time Dr. Dana Keoki Jackson returned to KAIST since his visit last April, when he talked to KAIST students about the technologies of particular interest to Lockheed Martin at the time.This time round Dr. Jackson focused his speech on the leadership challenges commonly faced in the aerospace and defense industry and “how that translates into different approaches in man
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:28
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For this year’s KAIST’s annual departmental information sessions, many of the freshmen would have had to participate in more sessions than in previous years. That is due to the school’s new curriculum announced at the beginning of the calendar year by the KAIST Curriculum Review Committee, in a bid to strengthen the “students’ professional competence”. From this
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:20
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Emeritus Professor Kyung-won Chung from the Department of Industrial Design here at KAIST received the top award at the 2015 DMI (Design Management Institute) Design Value Awards during the 40th Anniversary Gala last month in Boston, United States.Founded in 1975, the non-profit organization DMI has been dedicated to connecting design to various aspects of business and culture and changing the wor
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:38
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KAIST Professor Woontack Woo and his research team from the Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) demonstrated their new optical augmented reality platform at the 2015 Smart Cloud Show in Seoul last month. The Smart Cloud Show is an Internet Technology (IT) trend convention, organized by Chosun Biz, that displays recent trends in IT and provides a platform for IT firms to promote their prod
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:31
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This summer, KAIST became host to the 2015 Global Entrepreneurial Energy (GEE) Camp. 23 students from KAIST, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Waterloo gathered in the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) to learn about tech entrepreneurship from various industry leaders, share ideas, and interact with each other. The s
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:02
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p>In light of the recent Ferguson protests, the KAIST Herald has decided to provide an overview of the Ferguson shooting, which spurred the protests, the protests themselves, and their implications regarding racism throughout the United States.On August 9, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager aged 18, was shot dead by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, US. According to reports
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:30
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From November 13 to 14, KAIST held the 2014 Wearable Computer Competition at the KI Building (E4), marking the 10th anniversary of the competition’s inauguration. The competition promotes the fusion of technology and fashion, prompting its participants to embed information technology (IT) functions into the everyday clothing.Wearable computers are miniature electronic gadgets worn by the bea
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:13
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The KAIST Industrial Design Department’s homepage won the Best Webpage Award at the 10th Quacquarelli Symonds – Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (QS-APPLE) conference. The conference, which was hosted by Quacquarelli Symonds, a British company that annually publishes its world university rankings, took place between November 11 and 13 at the Taipei International Conventio
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:12
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On November 27, KAIST President Sung Mo Kang announced that the KAIST Youth Venture Investment Holdings (YVIH) (unofficial translation) had been established earlier that month and was now in full operation. The investment company was set up as a social enterprise that aims to promote startups by providing aspiring entrepreneurs the required seed money for commercialization.It has been pointed out
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:12