The opening ceremony of the project “Youngjae Kium”, supervised by the Ministry of Education, took place on May 12. “Youngjae Kium” is a project that supports talent-focused education for students who are not able to reach their potential due to socioeconomic barriers.

A research team lead by Professor Haeshin Lee of the KAIST Department of Chemistry discovered an effective method of targeting drugs at the heart via injection with tannic acid.

A lecture on the emerging technologies of blockchains and cryptocurrencies and their applications was held in the Educational Support Building (W8) on May 29.

On May 30, Dong Hun Kim — the representative of Handstudio — visited the Startup KAIST Studio for a lunch talk titled, “A Story of a Company that Dreams of a 0% Resignation Rate over Sales of 10 Billion”.

Voices of protest rose in the student community as news of President Sung-Chul Shin’s announcement of the establishment of the School of Transdisciplinary Sciences and Engineering at the second meeting for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Human Resources Committee spread.

The second public hearing on the proposed School of Transdisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (TSE) received heavy criticism from students. After negotiations were completed, the third public hearing on TSE was held on May 21.

A research team led by Professor Jong Chul Ye discovered the mathematical principles for producing high-performance artificial neural networks.

On May 24, the KAIST Student Welfare Committee announced that it would suspend the operation of the on-campus coin karaoke for a week from May 27 to June 3.

A research team led by Professor Youngshik Kim from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has successfully developed the first seawater battery.

Research shows that dinosaurs may not be like the scaly images shown in Jurassic Park, but were instead actually covered in feathers.

In a paper lead-authored by Zachary Gates of the MIT Department of Chemistry, researchers described the technology to chemically synthesize proteins with non-natural amino acids.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia were able to synthesize a low-cost membrane made from a copper mesh that effectively separates oil and water.

Amidst the chaos of the various problems regarding the upcoming Department of Transdisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (TSE), President Sung-Chul Shin and other school officials held the “President’s Meeting with Undergraduate Students” to discuss the most pertinent issues suggested by KAIST students.

The season of rejuvenation is well underway, but here in Korea, it is also the season of health warnings and daily masks. Rather than getting out to breathe the fresh air and witness the oncoming of spring, advice to keep outdoor activities to a minimum dominates citizens’ consciousness.

The efforts between North and South Korea have culminated into the 2018 Inter-Korean summit on April 27 when President Moon and Kim, along with several other high-ranking officials, met the Joint Security Area of Panmunjeom beyond the de facto border.

A research team at KAIST has further extended our understanding of drug-drug interaction (DDI) and drug-food interaction (DFI) with the development of a computational framework called DeepDDI.

In this letter sent to all universities in Korea, the Ministry of Education requested officials to “prevent students from getting fined for violating liquor tax laws during the festival period”.

A prevalent theory concerning this escalation of competition into conflict is that the phenomenon is more likely to be observed between two structurally equivalent people.

Chaos and misunderstanding swept over the KAIST community when posts regarding a homeless man residing within the Natural Science Building (E6) surfaced on Twitter.

Celebrating April as the month of science, Bruno Martinaud was invited to the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) to share his entrepreneurial insights with the KAIST community over lunch.