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KAIST is home to a no small number of swimming enthusiasts. On October 3, they were able to flaunt their smooth strokes and smash records as they participated in the 22nd annual KAIST swim meet, organized by the school's very own swimming team, KAORI. The event appropriately brought together serious
Society
So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:30
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[Debate] Is club funding to persists this way?KAIST has had no shortage of funding issues in recent years. Its scope is not limited to extracurricular but also autonomous school bodies, and other organizations. As important as it is that students are provided with a top-notch education, a solid foundation to help pursue their passions in also the trademark of university life. What is the wisest wa
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Jisoo Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:27
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[Debate] Is club funding to persists this way?KAIST has had no shortage of funding issues in recent years. Its scope is not limited to extracurricular but also autonomous school bodies, and other organizations. As important as it is that students are provided with a top-notch education, a solid foundation to help pursue their passions in also the trademark of university life. What is the wisest wa
Debate
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:26
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My first semester at KAIST never existed. Plato’s theory of Forms argues that it is the idea and not the material world of change that possesses the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. In high school, the image I had of college was far from that of studying at KAIST. Getting accepted into college was like knocking desperately on mystical wooden doors, searching for the door that would le
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Sang-Wook Ha Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:20
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This Chuseok, my entire conversation with a cousin that I had not seen since New Year’s comprised of only two words: “Hi,” and “Bye.” We spent approximately five hours in the same house that day, but other than at that moment of curt exchange, I don’t think I even looked at his face properly.Single word conversations are not too unusual between us. All we ever do together is sit in the same room a
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:15
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On September 13, news reports on television and major portal sites read that the labor-business-government tripartite commission has reached a fortuitous agreement on labor reform plans. With 20 million laborers hanging in the balance, the hurriedly heralded headlines on the consensus appeared to be good news at first glance. In fact, the labor union that participated in the tripartite talks, the
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 08:14
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Internationally, “open access” has been a hot keyword in the past month, as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation declared that all research projects funded by the organization must enable open access to their papers immediately upon publication, and the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced that they would be making all their articles freely available online. In other news, the Euro
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Jiwon Lee Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 05:30
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As the year ends, many legislative activities see to complete parts of the yearly goals. Sejong City have expedited their relocation plans and the Korean Brain Research Insitute (KBRI) have finally become official. Meanwhile, a research force has been created to address the new changes to the Korean education system from past October, and senator Kang from the October issue has come forth with new
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Dongsung Park Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 05:28
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Starting next semester, Spring semester of year 2015, the course add/drop period will be rescheduled to one week before and one week after the start of semester. Even though it will still be two weeks, students will be only able to attend and pre experience the courses only for one week.It is hard to imagine what it would be like to have course add/drop period one week before the start of the seme
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 05:27
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Over the summer, four students at KAIST Idea Factory embarked on a journey to improve the current 3D printers. Their success was to be celebrated four months later, at the launching event of their very own ‘Neuron’ – a 3D printer remedying the shortcomings of existing 3D printers. The KAIST Herald met with the very students who created ‘Neuron,’ namely Sukhyun Seo, Se
Society
Ji Yun Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:39
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Each year, graduating students of the Industrial Design department exhibit their final projects. The KAIST Herald met with Ji Ha Kim, the head of the graduation exhibition committee, and Youngho Lee, the head of the exhibition team.Could you briefly introduce yourself?Kim: My name is Ji Ha Kim, and I have been working with Jieun Hwang as the head of the graduation exhibition committee this year.Le
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:36
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The 4-day week was an unnecessary change. Sure it does afford an extra weekend, but all it isn’t always possible to reap the advantages provided from that extra day. Also, it has ironically resulted not in a regular four-weekdays and three-day weekends but a fluctuating five-day week and typical weekends.Given a typical schedule of two to four classes a day surrounding lunch time, Monday, Wednesda
Debate
Dongsung Park Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:23
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Over the years, there have been many amendments made to the education system of our school. All of them are intended for an improvement of an existing situation, but have they really been good solutions? As a positive example, a particularly delightful four-day weekday system started this semester. Many of the existing problems with student’s schedule have taken a turn for the better with the impl
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Ji Yun Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:23
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In a few weeks, I will finally be done with college. Though I am unsure what to do next, one thing is for certain – it will not be laboratory research. I didn’t always have this mindset. I initially enjoyed laboratory research, and thought it was much preferable to having a desk job. At the my first biology lab, I had an amazing mentor who gave me tasks that helped me better understand conce
Column
Jiwon Lee Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:18
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So deeply ingrained is the education problem in Korean society today that not a day goes by without some mention of it by the mass media. The fact that Korea boasts the largest discrepancy between academic achievement and intellectual curiosity amongst students of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries has already become all too familiar.What the majority of the peo
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:17
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Six more credits to graduate may sound trivial. After all, most KAIST students graduate with more than 136 credits. Nevertheless, the revision of academic requirement that the school is expecting to implement in the upcoming semester is not only abrupt but also ineffective. If implemented, the students would have to take 136 credits to graduate, about 63 of them from major courses. The required cr
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:16
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Internationally, some significant policy news in the past month included the appointment of the first female director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), a climate deal made by European Union (EU) leaders, the United States (US) government’s temporary ban on gain-of-function research, and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) plans to produce millions of Ebola vac
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Jiwon Lee Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 23:36
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Hyundai Research Institute (HRI) Suggest Greater Government Investment in and Support For Intellectual PropertyOn November 9, HRI presented their comparative economic study on the characteristics of domestic investment in intellectual properties (IIIP, unofficial acronym). In the report, Korea’s IIIP budget has increased greatly from 4.0% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000 and 5.7% in 2
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Dongsung Park Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 23:33
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New Amendment for the Double and Minor Major StudentsWith the help from Undergraduate Student Council, the school finally noticed amendment of school register regulation starting this semester. There have been two big changes that could greatly affect undergraduate students, especially who are exceeding their regular eight semesters on study in KAIST, and for those who hope to apply for the double
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 23:32
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On November 10 in the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas Hotel and on November 11 in the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) The KAIST Institute of Entrepreneurship (IE) held the KAIST IE 2014 Forum, in which participants discussed how to create entrepreneurship-friendly ecosystems in Korea as well as help Korean startups go global. To gain more insight into the forum, the KAIST Herald interviewed two key
Society
Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:52