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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On February 26, Hollywood gathered at the Dolby Theater to celebrate the year’s most notable films at the 89th Academy Awards. Considering that the annual ceremony is a convention of the best filmmakers out there today, it seems like they cannot get through one show without running into trouble. In fact, this year saw one of the biggest fiascos in Oscars history. During the highlight of the
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:41
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A change is coming. With happenings like the Gangnam Stabbing incident and workplace KakaoTalk chatroom controversy, more people are paying attention to human rights issues ranging from gender equality to workplace equity. KAIST is following that change too. Since December 16, 2014, the Center for Ethics and Human Rights promoted human rights in KAIST while also receiving and processing reports on
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Kun-Woo Song Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:41
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If I am — after a decade of writing in student newspapers — expected to be in any position to have formulated some opinion of what newswriting should be, I unfortunately must admit that I have a far better understanding of what it should not be. When I’m writing or reading news, that tells me to dismiss the trivial issues, such as grammar and punctuation. Structure and formatting
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:40
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For this month’s installment, by suggestion of a fellow reporter here in the Herald, I shall cover three bizarre stories related to crime and justice.Straight Out of TVOn November 24, two inmates successfully broke out of the Santa Clara County jail in San Jose, California. As if from an episode of Prison Break, four inmates (including the two that escaped) procured tools with which they cut
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:39
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With the end of President Sung-Mo Kang’s four-year term on February 23, the KAIST Board of Trustees elected Dr. Sung-Chul Shin of the Department of Physics as the 16th President of KAIST. As the first KAIST alumni to hold this prestigious position, President Shin has delineated a bold vision for the school’s future, highlighting key sectors for development and planning new academic sys
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 22:37
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Since his inauguration in February 2013, former President Sung-Mo Kang has shared his vision with the school for the past four years. In his inauguration speech, he emphasized two specific goals that the school will attempt to improve upon during his term: the establishment of an entrepreneurial culture like that of Silicon Valley, and improved communication between and among the administration, p
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:34
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By being the forerunner of a newfound educational environment in Korea, the former president has not only imbued the college with a sense of singularity, but also characterized the school with a driven vigor that is sought and practiced in many of other universities in the States. Gleaming through the works of Kang Sung Mo, it is more than plausible to say that he has given KAIST a sense of direct
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:34
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To whom it may concern,I am uncertain as to whether or not anyone will read this letter upon publication, and I am more uncertain if it will have any effect on the administration. Nonetheless, based on my limited knowledge of the current plans for KAIST’s future, I am humbly submitting this letter via the newspaper while also fulfilling my job as a Herald reporter this month. On the whole, m
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 22:30
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Just as much as anyone holds theright to voice their opinions, nottampered in any way by externalforces, the mass media should not beexempt from this fundamental right in any way either.Many people believe that the unbalanced coverage ofthe media resulted in immutable repercussions duringthe 2016 US presidential elections. However, it isimportant for us to understand the implications of thisclaim;
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Jae Hwan Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2016.11.28 19:47
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On July 22 of this year, WikiLeaks, the controversial international publisher of leaked classified and secretive information, released emails and documents sent from and received by Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. In some of the emails, Podesta and Neera Tanden, one of Clinton’s closest advisers, express their concerns and criticisms regarding the candidate. In one of them, Ta
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 23:42
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November 8 marked the start of what some people are calling “the apocalypse”. In more formal terms, Donald J. Trump is President-Elect of the United States of America. It seems that half of the American population are calling the results a miracle, while the other half are in such disbelief they have already started to protest in the streets. One thing both parties can agree on is the
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 23:37
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As the end of the term draws near, KAIST’s Undergraduate Student Council (USC) has had to deal with two major scandals within the few weeks between October and November. The first bombshell came on October 20 when the Central Election Commission (CEC), which is in charge of organizing and managing the 31st undergraduate student council elections, publicly announced on social media that their forme
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Yehhyun Jo Staff Reporter
2016.11.26 15:48