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What instills the intrinsic realization that you are you? It is the age-old philosophical question of what makes consciousness and the concept of self. Regarding this entire concept I am dealing with here, there is a deeper foundational and intrinsic feeling that we all share; this conscious realization that we are all unique as existential beings, confined to our own physical container, unable to
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.05.05 14:11
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A dainty but not far-fetched analogy draws parallel between our social lives and the performing stage. It’d be more accurate to speak of a stage where each and every performer is drawn out with one’s own spotlight. On daily basis, we become subjects of attention, not just pertinent to our looks, but more so on the things we say and the things we do. Our rhetoric may be appraised on the
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Jae Hwan Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:18
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Every spring, the campus gets crowded with new students. The freshmen explore buildings and cafeterias that they will be using for the next four years while the student clubs are passionate about recruiting new members. The freshmen remind me of the fact that there are just as many graduates who leave the school to continue their path as engineers or move to a different field. A friend of mine who
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:12
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Criticizing the president has become a social norm of this country. President Moo-hyun Roh is still a source of entertainment for some in politically skewed websites like Ilbe. President Myung-bak Lee and President Geun-hye Park were called a “rat” and a “chicken” respectively. Such misbehavior is immature and no different from kindergarten- level bullying. Often, criticism
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:03
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Lemony Snicket’s famous children’s novel series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, is the perfect description for 2016: the year of Brexit, the year Donald Trump got elected president, the year of Choi Soon-sil gate, and the year Harambe died for our sins. And it seems the British are not done with adding their part to this pile of, to be polite, feces.With what seemed to b
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:47
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On February 26, Hollywood gathered at the Dolby Theater to celebrate the year’s most notable films at the 89th Academy Awards. Considering that the annual ceremony is a convention of the best filmmakers out there today, it seems like they cannot get through one show without running into trouble. In fact, this year saw one of the biggest fiascos in Oscars history. During the highlight of the
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:41
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If I am — after a decade of writing in student newspapers — expected to be in any position to have formulated some opinion of what newswriting should be, I unfortunately must admit that I have a far better understanding of what it should not be. When I’m writing or reading news, that tells me to dismiss the trivial issues, such as grammar and punctuation. Structure and formatting
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:40
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To whom it may concern,I am uncertain as to whether or not anyone will read this letter upon publication, and I am more uncertain if it will have any effect on the administration. Nonetheless, based on my limited knowledge of the current plans for KAIST’s future, I am humbly submitting this letter via the newspaper while also fulfilling my job as a Herald reporter this month. On the whole, m
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 22:30
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In the midst of the noxious political strife, polluting and choking the fresh air of democracy out of our lives, and the protests clogging up the streets and roads, you may find yourself wondering how it all ended up like this. The scandal that has shattered Korea’s fragile trust in the government continues to unfold, turning and twisting with no end in sight. The ineffective and inept presi
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Yehhyun Jo Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 15:44
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In this month’s issue of TheKAIST Herald, the obituarysection had to be replacedby an additional interview. Consequently, thiscolumn is dedicated to Professor Jung H. Shin,who has recently left us and I would like to askpolitely for the generous understanding of ourreaders.Professor Shin never took long to leave animpression on his students. He was verycasually dressed, quantified by a permutation
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Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 19:50
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As I nestled into my chair — controller in hand — ready for a session of FIFA, I couldn’t help but think about the rumors that floated around school that day. “Chino, did you hear about the toque de queda?”, my friends would ask. Allegedly, the mayor received a letter from the 18th Street gang in which they stated that they would put in place a “toque de queda&r
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:56
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It’s late at night and you naturally collapse on your couch, adjusting your weary body for maximum comfort. You settle in as your aching muscles relax and you turn on the television for some light-hearted, good-humored comedy that is guaranteed to provide you with your daily dose of happiness in one sitting. If you are in America, chances are very high that you will be tuned into one of many
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Yehhyun Jo Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 15:54
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I thought adults loved apples when I was young. I remember a movie where a police officer spends years to find a criminal but lets the criminal escape after receiving an apple box as a gift. I asked my parents how the police officer could give up his work for just a box of apples. My parents told me adults cannot live without apples. Now I know what these “apples” were, and my parents
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 13:00
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The basilisk of lore is a fearsome creature. Her fangs are but twelve-fingers long, and her venom “withers all living plants in her wake.” Her gaze is enough to kill as Mourning Myrtle found out in JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Only the crowing of a cock has the potential to kill her, but it didn’t work with this basilisk. Despite being rigged out, her an
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Agar Omondi
2016.11.24 13:13
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One night, mostcertainly on one ofthe paved asphaltroads of Korea, the inevitablehappened. A scream, a tear,and I was unconscious on the ground. Myfriends hurried next to me and I was carriedinto my dorm room.Next morning, I was dizzy on my bed. Ayawn rendered all other tests unnecessary.Alcohol. A lot of alcohol and dizziness. Self-deprecating acts of the night had given birth toa late sun and I
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Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2016.11.23 23:52
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Putang ina were the two Tagalog words that Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, used in a statement addressed to US President Barack Obama. The phrase, which roughly translates to “son of a whore”, came at the end of a nationally broadcasted speech in which Duterte firmly warned the United States from questioning the surge of extrajudicial killings since his appointment to of
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:45
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My first semester at KAIST never existed. Plato’s theory of Forms argues that it is the idea and not the material world of change that possesses the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. In high school, the image I had of college was far from that of studying at KAIST. Getting accepted into college was like knocking desperately on mystical wooden doors, searching for the door that would le
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Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:20
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On September 13, news reports on television and major portal sites read that the labor-business-government tripartite commission has reached a fortuitous agreement on labor reform plans. With 20 million laborers hanging in the balance, the hurriedly heralded headlines on the consensus appeared to be good news at first glance. In fact, the labor union that participated in the tripartite talks, the
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:14
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In a few weeks, I will finally be done with college. Though I am unsure what to do next, one thing is for certain – it will not be laboratory research. I didn’t always have this mindset. I initially enjoyed laboratory research, and thought it was much preferable to having a desk job. At the my first biology lab, I had an amazing mentor who gave me tasks that helped me better understand conce
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Jiwon Lee Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:18
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So deeply ingrained is the education problem in Korean society today that not a day goes by without some mention of it by the mass media. The fact that Korea boasts the largest discrepancy between academic achievement and intellectual curiosity amongst students of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries has already become all too familiar.What the majority of the peo
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:17