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Nuri, officially named the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II (KSLV-II), was reported to successfully launch and detach loaded satellites into desired orbits at 6:24 p.m. on May 25. This was the third launch of the vehicle, following the first launch on October 12, 2021, resulting in failure but succeedi
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06
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On April 26, KAIST held a Failure Seminar which invited guests, such as entrepreneurs and content managers, from all over Korea to share the necessary failures that contributed to their achievements. I.T. Shin (also known as Cheol-ho Shin), founder and CEO of OGQ — a social creator platform with ove
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:05
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An inquiry committee delving into the controversy regarding last year’s unofficial Undergraduate Student Council (USC) candidate party Blue Wish (Pureunbaram) has been undergoing construction.
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Juhoon Lee Assistant Editor
2018.04.11 13:18
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On March 19, the opening ceremony for the newly completed Academic Cultural Complex (E9) was held. With over 34.9 billion KRW invested in the renovation, the old library building has been reborn with a new exterior and interior, as well as an appended Cultural Building.
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Hyoyeon Kim Staff Reporter
2018.03.29 01:12
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[Debate] Is Political Apathy a Problem for KAIST Students?KAIST has had a difficult time finding adequate political participation from the student body. Surveys related to upcoming campus-wide legislature often go unnoticed by some apathetic students, and only after the policy is set in place does it attract enough attention. Are KAIST students exercising a healthy degree of political participatio
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.05.21 21:28
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An ill-fated duo has taught Korea a valuable lesson: one that none of the Bushes, Kims, or Arroyos could teach us, one that millions took to the street every week to learn, one that demystified a deified dead.On one hand stands the princess, left to the hands of her secretaries and assistants after both her parents were assassinated. She must have walked a lonely path. Even though she may have bee
Column
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.05.21 21:21
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The previous and the current issues of The KAIST Herald each present an article about the recently released university rankings and how well KAIST did on them compared to other universities and to its own performance last year. While critics of the rankings themselves would point out what they believe are the innately problematic aspects of the ranking system, there may still be ways to make do wi
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.05.21 21:05
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At the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) World Congress, which took place in the Netherlands from October 10 to 14 and was attended by more than 2,000 participants, KAIST researchers Seungsoo Lee, Changhoon Yoon, Jaehyun Nam, and Professor Seungwon Shin of the School of Electrical Engineering were awarded the Best SDN Solution Showcase Award for their work on leading the SDN security project DELTA
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:36
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On October 25, KAIST President Sung-Mo Kang and Technical University Denmark (DTU) Senior Vice President Martin P. Bendsoe signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Embassy of Denmark in Seoul. The MOU highlights exchanging students and researchers through startup programs, in addition to strengthening the intervarsity collaboration in education and research. The signing took place during
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:32
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On October 31, Nature Communications published a paper titled “ Exploiting the speckle correlation scattering matrix for a compact reference-free holographic image sensor”, written by Professor YongKeun Park and graduate student KyeoReh Lee, both from the Biomedical Optics Laboratory at KAIST.In the paper, the authors describe a novel method to build holographic image sensors with the
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:26
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The Korean people had witnessed how Prosecutor Young-ryeol Lee appeared on television to pinpoint the nation’s incumbent president as an accomplice in an unprecedentedly controversial corruption scandal involving Soon-sil Choi. President Park’s status since then is “criminal suspect”.Around the corner lie pending investigation results, but President Park’s political s
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:21
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Campus France is organizing the 2016 Etudier en France Fair as a rendezvous occasion for students looking to study in France and coordinators of French higher education institutions. Translated as “Study in France”, the name of the fair says it all; organizers hope that participants “gain valuable information about what it is like to study in France.”Scheduled from 1 p.m. t
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:13
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We are at the peak of inflated expectations about drones. So many people are hyped up, in one way or another, about what drones are capable of delivering to us: pizzas and burritos, missiles and railguns, fun and thrill, political debates and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) meetings, etc to the point that how drones themselves have been brought to us is mostly overlooked. Now, having explore
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:05
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On September 22, Professor Hasok Chang was invited to give a seminar at the School of Humanities and Social Science Building (N4) at 5:30 p.m. As the first in a series of Science and Technology Policy (STP) Colloquium seminars scheduled this semester, the seminar by Professor Chang was titled “Voltaic batteries and technoscience in the 19th century” and was attended by about 40 profess
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:02
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On September 28, the School of Electrical Engineering (EE) has officially announced its initiative, ambitiously titled “EE Co-op” program at the school building (E3-2) at 7 p.m. EE Co-op is the school’s revamped, skill-set- oriented internship program. Professor Yong Hoon Lee outlined the specifics of the implementation at the EE Co- op Information Session attended by fifty under
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:53
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The 2017 KAIST Grand Challenge 30 Project is open to submissions until October 31. KAIST has organized this initiative to encourage researchers to tackle globally problematic issues and study fundamental and basic sciences for an extended period of time up to 30 years, without any mid-project evaluation of the “fruits” of the research being pursued. Full-time employees of KAIST with mo
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:52
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Given the variety of policies adopted by different countries, one may be inclined to think that Korea is in dire need of relaxing the progressive rate it imposes on electricity consumption, especially for households. However, to students at KAIST, where electricity consumption at dormitories comes at no additional cost apart from the fxed monthly dormitory fees, it is apparent that an impetuous re
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:47
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Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) and the National Institute for International Education (NIIED) are jointly organizing a job fair for international job-seekers in Korea on the third floor of COEX, Seoul from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on October 6 and 7. Powered by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the fair will host over 100 recruiting firms, each adv
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:40
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Visual Computing Laboratory (VCLab) researchers headed by KAIST Professor Min H. Kim have developed a breakthrough stereo imaging technology that enables the capture of both the color and depth information from a single shot image via double refraction.It has long been widely accepted among computer vision researchers that binocular/multiview techniques require at least two cameras in order to est
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:31
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▲ Poster for the Event Organized by the Daejeon International Center (DIC) and hosted by Daejeon Metropolitan City, the very first Daejeon Sports Day for International Students is to be held at the gym of KT Human Resources Development Center on October 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The organizers describe the event as the first annual sports competition for international students from Daejeon &ldquo
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:25