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I never thought graduate and undergraduate buildings within the same campus could feel so different despite being only a few hundred meters apart.
Column
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff
2017.09.25 20:19
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Although a distinctive line can be drawn between the concept of “truthfulness” and “usefulness”, the increasing demand for a comprehensive set of information in today’s pursuit of knowledge means that we should be critical of the selectivity and the integrity of the knowledge presented to us.
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 20:12
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One typical rainy autumn day in Vienna, Mrs. Wagner, my ninth grade history teacher, asked several minutes before class started, “Did you hear about what happened to Kim Jong-il? What do you think is going to happen now to North Korea?”
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Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 19:38
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I became a big fan of dystopian novels ever since I read George Orwell’s 1984 in high school and fell in love with the darker themes in fiction writing, which was a new concept to me at the time. Luckily, there was no shortage of writers who had gloomy futures for humanity, and soon after 1984, I had finished Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Lois Lo
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.09.25 16:57
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[Debate] Is Political Apathy a Problem for KAIST Students?KAIST has had a difficult time finding adequate political participation from the student body. Surveys related to upcoming campus-wide legislature often go unnoticed by some apathetic students, and only after the policy is set in place does it attract enough attention. Are KAIST students exercising a healthy degree of political participatio
Debate
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.05.21 21:28
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An ill-fated duo has taught Korea a valuable lesson: one that none of the Bushes, Kims, or Arroyos could teach us, one that millions took to the street every week to learn, one that demystified a deified dead.On one hand stands the princess, left to the hands of her secretaries and assistants after both her parents were assassinated. She must have walked a lonely path. Even though she may have bee
Column
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.05.21 21:21
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The previous and the current issues of The KAIST Herald each present an article about the recently released university rankings and how well KAIST did on them compared to other universities and to its own performance last year. While critics of the rankings themselves would point out what they believe are the innately problematic aspects of the ranking system, there may still be ways to make do wi
Debate
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.05.21 21:05
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Dear eligible voters, By the time this letter is published, we will have chosen a new president to lead this angry, disillusioned, and divided nation. But regardless of the results of the election, there will be some who will have voted and others who will have abstained from voting. If you are in the former category, there is not much to say except that I hope you are happy with the outcome. But
Column
Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.05.18 17:10
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Mr Jeon is a celebrity in the Korean startup scene in his own right; he not only is the CEO of a massively successful business that launched several domestic Online to Offline (O2O) dining platforms, but also has been the mentor and judge in a KBS startup reality show. On top of that, he used to be a TV anchor on Maeil Business News, produced various independent films and published a book. Upon hi
Interview
Chan Ju Chong Junior Reporter
2017.05.10 23:56
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Just before the Oscars, movie fans were stunned to learn of the sudden death of the beloved actor Bill Paxton. According to a statement the 61-year-old’s family made, he died due to complications from heart surgery. Bill Paxton was the star of some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters from the 1980s and 1990s. In the starring role in the cutting edge 1996 film The Twister, he drove us throu
Obituary
Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2017.05.09 21:22
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Ahacker, presumably from China, has managed to get their hands on personal information from Goodchoice, a famous accommodation website with more than 3 million members, on March 23. The victims received emails from the hacker that included sexually offensive messages. WithInnovation, the parent company of Goodchoice, has yet managed to figure out the exact number of victims. The hacker is blackmai
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Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2017.05.09 21:19
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Every day, the School of Humanities and Social Science Building gets flooded with students of all ages and majors. Courses held here are electives, dealing with a variety of topics on the arts and humanities. In any other school, such a building would not stand out. Here at KAIST, however, the structure stands out like an imposter amidst others with more technical names. As a matter of fact, as th
Column
Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2017.05.08 17:12
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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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University rankings have become a staple in many students’ academic paths, mainly helping high schoolers choose the perfect university. There is a wide variety of rankings and some are indeed useful, but the most accessible and prominent ones seem to suffer from fatal flaws that should force them into irrelevance. But the opposite seems to be happening as many universities seek to promote th
Debate
Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.05.05 14:07
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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
Column
Jae Hwan Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:18
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I promise that this will be my last piece on trump. I really do. Well… we’ll see what happens next week. Hopefully Trump won’t do anything worth mentioning. I say this and yet, deep inside my heart, I know that the Trump train never stops. As President-elect of the US, Trump, in his typical bombastic and Trump-esque fashion, made headlines by appointing controversial figures to
Aspects of Society
Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 23:58
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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
Column
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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With over 700 million internet users, the Chinese population is more connected than any other society in the world. China is an important market for companies like Facebook, which wants to add a huge chunk of users to its existing 1.8 billion monthly users. But to the authoritarian Chinese government, the access to boundless information poses a threat to its control over free expression. Facebook
Aspects of Society
Hyunseung Hwang Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:56
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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