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With the Ebola death toll rising to almost 5,000 in West Africa, the virus continues to be a pressing health issue, but what some may overlook are its devastating economic effects on the West African countries. Having to deal with the difficulties of increasing costs of Ebola combat and drop in investor confidence, just to name a few, these countries are seeing their already-beleaguered economies
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 20:34
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On October 28, the KAIST Cho Chun Shik Graduate School for Green Transportation (GSGT) and the Petersburg State Transport University (PSTU) in Russia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the PSTU campus, agreeing to strengthen their collaboration in research and the academic exchange in the field of green transportation.According to the agreement, the two institutions will collaborate in
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 20:23
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On October 23, the FnC sector of Kolon Industries (Kolon FnC) donated 2 million KRW worth of profits from the flea market held at this year’s festival to the KAIST development foundation. Kolon FnC i.e. the Kolon fashion division is one of the leading companies in Korea specialized in fashion and has led the development of technology and design for more than five decades.In cooperation with
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 20:20
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KAIST has recently been the beneficiary of a 50-million-KRW donation from the parents of two KAIST alumni. These parents, Ki-Hong Oh (husband) and Soon-Yi Kim (wife), run a tangerine farm and a B&B in Seogwipo, Jeju. The family has produced three graduates from the school; the two sons, Hwan-Hee Oh (class of 2005) and Hwan-Yup Oh (class of 2009), received their master’s degrees in Mechan
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 20:19
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The world has still not found a safe and stable way to harness the vast amount of underwater gas hydrate, a potential energy source that far surpasses coal or oil - that is, until now.A research team composed of Professor Hun Lee, Doctor Dong Yeun Koh, and doctorate candidate Hyery Kang, all from the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has developed a way of retrieving huge
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 19:07
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A joint research team led by Professor Yong-Hoon Cho and Assistant Professor YongKeun Park of the KAIST Department of Physics has developed an ultra-high resolution lens with which one can observe images in the range of 100 nm, in 2-D, all in real time. This is a feat that cannot be achieved by traditional optical lenses due to the diffraction limit of light.This groundbreaking lens was the result
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 18:04
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On October 7, the KAIST Graduate School of Future Strategy held the “Korean National Future Strategy” hearing at the Korea Press Center, in Seoul. Currently, the KAIST Graduate School of Future Strategy is working on a project aiming to establish national strategies that look 30 years into the future, a project initiated when former chairman of KAIST, MoonSoul Chung, donated 21.5 billi
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 17:56
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The 2014 KAIST festival called Hakuna Matata was held by the KAIST event preparation committee, Imagination Effect, from September 24 to 26. Hakuna Matata, KAIST’s biggest festival throughout the annual calendar, was supposed to be held in the spring, but it was cancelled and postponed to the fall semester, in mourning of the Sewol ferry disaster back in April. Booths serving people food and
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 17:55
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KAIST is hosting and recruiting for its third artist residency program called the “Endless Road.” KAIST became the first university in the country to carry out such a program last August, a program that supports budding artists, writers in particular, and seeks integration between science and art.Those who pass the selection process will be offered a maximum of six-months stay in campu
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 17:54
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Last Thursday, the South Korean government proposed to increase tobacco taxes for the first time in a decade, a bill which when approved by the National Assembly would nearly double current tobacco prices, from 2,500 to 4,500 Korean Won for an average pack of cigarettes. This tax hike would allegedly catch two birds with one stone, securing extra tax revenue for the government and curbing the smok
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.01.18 00:29
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A KAIST undergraduate by the name Inmo Chung has received an investment of 1.5 billion Korean won for his Startup iamcompany, from the venture capitalist Timothy C. Draper, a well-known name in the industry. Chung is a 4th year Industrial Design major at KAIST but is on a temporary leave of absence to run his company. Having gained substantial financial support, iamcompany is expected to accelerat
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.01.17 17:33
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In the summer of 2014, KAIST became host to a business/entrepreneurial student conference called Bizworld, which also acts as a bilateral student exchange program initiated by the KAIST International Student Association (KISA). Not only does the program aim to promote entrepreneurial spirit, but it also offers an opportunity for the constituent universities to create professional networking among
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.01.17 17:27
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On September 12, for the very first time, the KAIST Alumni Association held the "KAIST Technology Fair" in the school's KAIST Institute (KI) building (E4). This technology fair was attended by a total of 17 organizations 14 alumni companies, the KAIST Technology Commercialization Center and 2 investment firms; they were welcomed to the workshop for active investment opportunities for st
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.01.17 17:20
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KAIST President Sung Mo Kang attended the Summer Davos Forum held in Tianjin, China, from September 10 to 12, as the sole participant to represent a university from his country. On September 10, he went on to participate in a specialized and private conference within Davos called the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF), with the presidents of eight other prestigious universities such as those f
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.11.11 21:03
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On June 2, the KAIST Cafeteria Monitoring Committee organized a forum attended by the manager of Kaimaru, KAIST’s signature cafeteria in the northern part of campus, to discuss the current issues and problems with the food and service at Kaimaru. The KAIST Herald talked with the Manager Jin Yeol Choi to discuss the present and future of Kaimaru.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.06.15 16:01
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Year 2014 saw South Korea top the charts once again in the Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment, an index designed to compare the relative performances of 39 countries based on their education output, compiled by the education company Pearson and The Economic Intelligence Unit as part of The Learning Curve report. These statistics show that Korean education is enjoying its golden age, or so it may seem. Those who have actually enrolled in Korean schools or have raised children may not share the same optimistic appraisal of the situation.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.06.15 15:45
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The past issue of this series dealt with the responsibility of journalists to effectively promote their stories to the target audience. My colleague asserted that the lack of our youth’s intellectual maturity should not only be attributed to the writers who produce shallow and insignificant news but also to those who report meaningful stories with substance but fail to use all the tools at their disposal - visual, promotional, or otherwise - to deliver the necessary information to the intended audience. However, looking back at the poor media coverage of the recent Sewol ferry disaster, I am beginning to think that there is room for one more attributing factor; this factor is about how the content of news should be presented within the context of the story.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.05.28 00:59
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In light of the recent information leakage by three Korean banks, Kookmin, Nonghyup, and Lotte, the general public, including students, have become wary about the vulnerability of their personal information. Though many are not aware of it, KAIST students are relatively safe to such information leakages. Since KAIST is a government-funded institute, information is not usually disclosed to outsiders unless the school is legally obliged to do so or is formally requested by organizations, such as scholarship institutions, to reveal students’ profiles. Even at such requests, the school follows due process to assess any potential danger in providing the information, which is one of the reasons that there have not been any reported leakages in KAIST.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.04.20 00:33
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KAIST Professor Kyung Wook Paik from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2014 Pan Pacific Microelectronic Symposium hosted by the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) at Hawaii last month. While Professor Paik’s laboratory has already been under the spotlight for producing three Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) Intel Best Student Paper award-winning students during the past few years, now it was Professor Paik’s turn to shine. Professor Paik presented his research “Nano-fiber Anisotropic Conductive Adhesives for Ultra Fine Pitch Chip-on-Film Packaging” and received recognition for his distinction and creativity in his work.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.04.20 00:05
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A research team led by KAIST Professor Dong-Soo Han from the Department of Computer Science announced this month that they have developed a Wi-Fi-based indoor navigation system called KAIST Location System (KAILOS). KAILOS implements crowdsourcing, the practice of soliciting contributions from the general public and including them in the service’s production process. Instead of introducing groundbreaking technology, KAILOS utilizes existing wireless local area network (LAN) that can be set up on a global scale for only a small cost.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.04.20 00:00