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Celebrating the start of a new year is a strictly human phenomenon. Humans across the globe decided to label time, by dissecting it and recording it down to days, months, years. The invention of the calendar has changed the nature of time, castrating it as gods did with Kronos’ Scythe. What belonged
Analysis
Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2023.02.09 02:57
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Since the early days of my childhood, Trading Card Games (TCGs) were one of my biggest fascinations, a fervor that refused to die out. However, the times have changed. The world accelerates at a daunting speed, leaving behind traditional forms of entertainment and opening new horizons with digital p
Analysis
Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, also known by its abbreviation EEAAO, was released in Korea on October 12. Like its name, the movie is a comprehensive delight gift-wrapped for all audiences, giving us all we could have ever wanted. It has hallmark characteristics of science fiction, comedy, East
Review
Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 23:11
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If one were to ask South Koreans about their soul food, I wager a surprisingly large number of them would answer fried chicken, widely referred to by Koreans as “chicken”. This might not surprise those who are well accustomed to Korean culture, especially that of yasik, the Korean term for late nigh
Review
Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2022.10.14 13:17
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It was 2017. I was conscripted to the Korean army and had just transferred to the regiment’s base camp. My batchmate and I, sitting nervously in the seats of administrative office, were waiting for our superiors to assign us duties — a decision that would not only decide what jobs we would work on,
Op-Ed
Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2022.10.14 13:17
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As one of the gigantic Trading Card Game (TCG) franchises in the world, Yu-Gi-Oh! enjoyed its prime in the early 2000s. It accumulated a huge fan base with an original comic by Kazuki Takahashi, along with animes and TCGs based on his work. Sadly, its heyday has come to a halt in the wake of smartph
Review
Han Hee Jang Senior Staff Reporter
2022.09.25 22:43
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A research team led by Professor Chan Beum Park of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering announced on May 16 that they have succeeded in developing magnetoelectric nanomaterials for the dissociation of highly stable amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregates under a low-frequency magnetic field. The
Research
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.06.14 00:20
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A research team led by Professor Jae-Byum Chang of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor Young-Gyu Yoon of the School of Electrical Engineering announced on May 23 that it has developed a technology that allows ultra-multiplexed fluorescence imaging, named “PICASSO”. Biom
Research
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.06.14 00:20
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Professor Ji-Joon Song and his team of researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences determined the 3D structure of somatostatin and its receptor, somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2). In an interview with the KAIST Herald, Professor Song kindly explained his research.Somatostatin is a hormone t
Research
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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On April 11, KAIST announced that its third rocket launch attempt on March 24 had been successfully completed. This launch was held in Jeju Island in cooperation with the rocket startup Perigee Aerospace as part of a project known as Blue Whale 0.1 (BW-0.1)The startup was founded by Yoon Shin, a stu
Research
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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Professor Byungha Oh from the Department of Biological Sciences and his research team have developed a neutralizing antibody to tackle the problem of COVID-19 variants. Using computational antibody design, the team hopes this antibody can be a solution for not only the variants that currently exist,
Research
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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Professor Jeungku Kang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering announced on March 31 that his research team has developed a high-efficiency catalyst that produces hydrogen peroxide by using only sunlight, water, and oxygen. Hydrogen peroxide is a useful resource that is used in indu
Research
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.04.12 18:00
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Visions, dreams, innovations, and more. These hopeful and daring words are often used to declare KAIST’s resolution in the coming years as a global leader in the scientific community. Yet the institute’s progress in satisfying its students has been nothing but disappointing. Granted, reform and chan
Op-Ed
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.03.24 23:18
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Hosted by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, an online seminar series “The Science and Science Fiction of AI” began on March 15, divided into seven sessions that are scheduled to end on May 17. First session was pertaining to a topic perhaps less rigid than the usual: “Now Is Not the Futu
News
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2022.03.24 23:18
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“You are the most Korean out of all of us.” Due to my time overseas, I’ve been blessed with the camaraderie of different communities. And while some would call me Korean, some would define me as something else – something that’s not Korean.I distinctly remember the day our family left Korea. My dayd
Society
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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The aviation industry is one of the sectors of the economy that has been most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the challenges that this industry currently faces and to learn about their possible solutions, The KAIST Herald interviewed Professor Jong Chul Kim from the K-School. Having
People and Community
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.11.20 22:35
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Not many people have heard of the term “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”. Its acronym CRISPR, however, has been emphasized to an extent that even the laymen of science have heard of it. Considering the drastic improvements brought by the development of CRISPR technology, it
People and Community
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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In high school, making offensive jokes was the norm among friends. No matter how offensive the comments were, the phrase “it was just a joke” would grant you immediate immunity from criticism. But that kind of rough humor fades, inevitably, with age and its accompanying responsibilities. There is a
Column
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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To every meeting, a parting follows. Beloved by many KAIST students over the years, Serengeti, the cocktail bar positioned at Eoeun-dong, is met with a wave of change. The former owner of Serengeti, Dae-jung Kim, officially retired this June, leaving his well-aged cocktail bar to its new owner. Two
People and Community
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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Some nights, I wake up from dreams about my time in the army. Most of them aren’t too frightening and I shrug them away to get on with my life, but sometimes I just can’t help but be affected by the bitterness they leave. My memory of my military service is far from happy; though not completely devo
Column
Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47