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YouTube. It never fails to keep me entertained any time of the day. I’d watch anything: videos of gameplays, tutorials, and even random videos about random facts. I would use it anytime — if only I didn’t have to see the advertisements. YouTube isn’t a perfect platform. It has had its fair share of
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Kun-Woo Song Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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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
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Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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Do you know kimchi? Do you know Psy?Do you know Park Ji-sung?You may have heard at least one of these “do you know” questions Koreans ask foreigners, which have been over-asked to the point that they are now memed as instances of excessive national pride among Koreans. Perhaps so excessive that ther
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Dong Min Kim Head of Society Division
2020.10.18 02:19
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In the middle of a pandemic, curfew rules and travel restrictions are enforced everywhere we go. With the recent Chuseok holiday, there had been concerns over increased intercity travel and the vast amount of people gathering in small crowded spaces. We were fortunate that although the government st
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Chrysan Angela Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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“Physically apart, emotionally together” was the Korean government’s slogan for this Chuseok. On the biggest Korean holiday of the year, citizens were advised to replace family gatherings with phone calls and gifts instead. Especially since Korea has recently seen a second big outbreak centered in S
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Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:19
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The Sam Okyere controversy is a concoction of different sentiments, values, and priorities gone sour. Before deconstructing the incident, the following assumptions must be established. First, blackface, historically used to mock enslaved Africans in the US, is racist. Second, in an ideal world, diff
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Dong Min Kim Head of Society Division
2020.09.25 19:46
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Some things are only ever wrong, with no grey area — racism is one of them. While the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was still sweeping across the occidental world, things were going about as peacefully as they ought to here, until a Ghanaian TV personality based in Korea decided to one day break
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Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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Making an unnecessary fuss is often laughed at. On my flight back to Korea after spending a month with my family in Washington D.C. this February, I tried my best to ignore the curious stares of strangers at a single piece of clothing that made me the odd one out — a mask. Back then, wearing a mask
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Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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We love superheroes. Batman roaming the streets of Gotham City, fighting crime and keeping the people safe. Spiderman swinging through New York and capturing thieves before the police can get there. V destroying government surveillance buildings and toppling the totalitarian rule. We love superheroe
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Kun-Woo Song Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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The year 2020 seems like the start of a dystopian novel, and yet, we are framing it as the “new normal”. We frantically try to gain control over a downward-spiraling reality by pushing it into a box and labeling it as a freak year. But the truth is, the disasters that plague us this year — the typho
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Jaymee Palma Editor-in-Chief
2020.09.25 19:46
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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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More than one hour.This was the response given by Jung Eun-Kyeong, the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), when asked how much sleep she got every night. Jung, known for her straightforward and calming daily COVID-19 briefings, quickly rose to celebrity status am
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Dong Min Kim Head of Society Division
2020.09.25 19:46
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Instagram, a portmanteau of the words “instant camera” and “telegram”, is one of the most popular social media among both teenagers and adults. A few months ago, I decided to take a break from the addictive platform for two weeks. It was a few days before the start of finals week last semester, and
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Chrysan Angela Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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Around the world, the problem of police brutality is finally being recognized and condemned. The mandates of many police forces have been twisted and manipulated by personal biases, and by those in power. Instead of serving as a force to protect the people, they have used their position of authority
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Jaymee Palma Assistant Editor
2020.06.23 01:47
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Riots Are The Language of The UnheardBy Ada Carpenter Editor-in-ChiefThe civil unrest and mass protests currently underway in the United States are an outburst of built-up racial tensions, caused by the long history of discrimination, injustice, and ongoing police brutality against Black people and
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A. Carpenter and J. Palma
2020.06.23 01:47
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It’s been four years since I joined the Herald. The summer of 2016, almost exactly four years ago, was the shining culmination of my whole life. Per social media users, however, the year of 2016 was the beginning of the end, the peak of the rollercoaster, the portent of the apocalypse. Is it true? H
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Juhoon Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, President Xi Jinping and the National People’s Congress (NPC) have unanimously approved a proposal to impose their controversial national security law on Hong Kong. This law allows mainland China’s Ministry of State Security to operate in Hong Kong, prohibiting and puni
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Joon Ha Kim Head of Society Division
2020.06.23 01:47
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The recent death of George Floyd triggered a chain of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the US and the world. People are marching, donating, and sharing on social media to raise awareness and support the fight against police brutality. Police brutality has historically been a persistent problem
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Jehyuk Cho Junior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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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
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Han Hee Jang Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47