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What do you think about international relationships on campus?Should class attendance be mandatory, or affect grades?
Society
Herald Junior Staff Reporters
2019.05.24 23:14
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As the TaeWoolSeokLimJae, our school festival, is approaching, The KAIST Herald decided to interview the leader of Encouraging Leaders of KAIST (ELKA), the school’s official cheerleading squad.
People and Community
Hongseok Lee Head of Society Division
2019.05.24 22:44
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With the anti-vaxx movement gaining traction and a series of measles outbreaks occurring all over the world, public uproar from both proponents and opponents of vaccines is taking over online discourse. A lookback at the historical context behind the creation of the first vaccine will hopefully provide some insight into why vaccines are required in contemporary society.
People and Community
Sejoon Huh Senior Staff Reporter
2019.05.24 22:40
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Defamation laws are important to protect individuals from harmful and untruthful information. Korean law is unique in that truth is not a defense to defamation unlike those of most countries. We weigh the benefits and consequences in this month’s debate.Don’t Look the Other WayBy Eugene Jang Staff R
Debate
Eugene Jang / Youngil Ko
2019.05.24 22:28
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9 a.m. lectures are painful. Every morning in the Creative Learning Building, freshmen drag themselves to lectures just in time for in-class roll calls. 10 minutes into the lecture, half of the students already are walking back to their dorms, and the rest refuse to make any eye-contact with the professor. This phenomenon repeats itself all year round only because the attendance here in KAIST is mandatory and affects the final GPA.
Column
Youngil Ko Junior Staff Reporter
2019.05.24 22:14
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Earlier this year, I was invited to a wedding for the first time in my life. I’m sure I’ve been to some distant relative’s wedding at some point in my forgotten youth, but this was the first time I was invited by a friend. Later, sometime last month, I was invited to another wedding. If the first invitation didn’t hit me, the second one did: I’m at the age when people get married.
Column
Eugene Jang Staff Reporter
2019.05.24 22:09
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It is depressingly humorous to find myself imagining things before they happen, and later discovering how terribly deviant those thoughts are from reality. But what is lost through spoilers is too significant to be made possible with the level of accountability we have today.
Column
Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2019.05.24 22:05
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With its April 24 release in Korea, Avengers: Endgame has stirred up quite the buzz. People from all walks of life have rallied together to celebrate Endgame and its significance as the end to the decade-long story arc of the first-generation Avengers, the Infinity Stones, and their fight against final boss Thanos.
Column
Sejoon Huh Senior Staff Reporter
2019.05.24 21:55
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Although gun-related violence and school shootings are issues that may seem unfamiliar to us here in Korea, for other countries around the world, it is a festering problem with no easy solution in sight. With the recent shootings in Christchurch and Utrecht, there seems to be an alarming global trend of an increase in gun-related deaths. An unsettling uneasiness about some potentially imminent danger looms over the heads of many.
Obituary
Sejoon Huh Senior Staff Reporter
2019.04.26 00:50
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The many cats of the KAIST campus are now being looked after by a club - KAIST Cat Shelter. How do they promote the care of these animals?
Interview
Eugene Jang Staff Reporter
2019.04.26 00:48
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The KAIST Student & Minority Human Rights Committee’s recent decision to prohibit Korean re-explanation in English lectures has brought about heated debates within the KAIST community. Professors’ use of Korean in lectures has been an ongoing dispute that many international students have tried to tackle in recent years. Who should be responsible for raising the issue, and is the usage of Korean in lectures in need of change?
Debate
Hongseok Lee / Jae Hwan Jeong
2019.04.26 00:42
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The silence in the classroom is deafening. As the professor waits for a response to the question he has posed, the eyebrows of my peers become more furrowed. Contemplating it myself, I couldn’t choose an answer right away, the solution eluding me due to the inherent open-endedness of the question. After a while, the professor, clearly agitated by the lack of a response, reiterates the question: “If you had 10 years to play and do whatever you want, what one activity would you choose?”
Column
Sejoon Huh Senior Staff Reporter
2019.04.26 00:35
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If we were to break down life into several broad and general categories, it would be based on social, academic, financial, and cultural aspects. From my observations, people — at least the ones I have encountered — do quite well in a few of those categories. Some might even do exceptionally well. But from what I have seen, no matter how accomplished people might be, there are still some aspects they struggle with. Struggle is universal and no one is exempt.
Column
Berhane Weldegebriel Junior Staff Reporter
2019.04.26 00:26
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Despite the cheap price tags that tempt us to fast fashion, over a longer period the world has to pay a heavy cost.Where are you shopping for your new spring clothes?
Column
Jinho Park Junior Staff Reporter
2019.04.26 00:24
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KAIST sucks. Now that I’m facing graduation, I want to reflect on my undergraduate life in KAIST and that is the first thing that comes to mind. There’s so many problems for fall semester enterers that I have been a victim of, and I cannot fathom how difficult it must be for international students. But this article is not a rant about KAIST; that has been done time and again. I want to think about how it transformed me as a person.
Column
Eugene Jang Staff Reporter
2019.04.26 00:22
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Co-founding Rappler as its chief executive officer, Maria Ressa is an author and journalist who has come into the spotlight following a recent battle against the Philippine government.
People and Community
Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2019.03.26 02:11
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With the start of a new year came news of new campaign parties aiming to be elected as the new Undergraduate Student Council (USC). After the dismissal of the previous USC, Batchim, last year, the USC was replaced by the Emergency Response Committee (ERC), Rise, causing confusion for many KAISTians. To clarify the events of last semester, The KAIST Herald interviewed a former USC and ERC member, Jeho Jin.
Interview
Hongseok Lee Head of Society Division
2019.03.26 02:05
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With no country being held responsible for the fine dust and air pollution being ever present, the situation is only getting worse. This month’s debate discusses both Korea’s and China’s responsibility concerning Korea’s recent fine dust crisis.
Debate
Chrysan Angela/Woong Gyu Park
2019.03.26 02:00
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I am a minority. Those who know me will wonder what makes me say so. I am an adult male, with no identified disabilities or illness, I’m economically stable, and heterosexual. Yet, I am a minority. I am a minority: I am left-handed.
Column
Hongseok Lee Head of Society Division
2019.03.26 01:56
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Since his inauguration in January 2017, Donald Trump has been subject to endless suspicion and scrutiny. Even the slightest bit of reason to believe that the current president has tampered with the legislative process of the country is a valid enough predication to investigate the case with full expenditure of available resources.
Column
Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2019.03.26 01:49