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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
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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
Policies Today
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
Policies Today
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
Policies Today
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
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Over the summer, Chang Young Shin Student Activity Center opened its doors to students. The center, run entirely by students, consists of many facilities to encourage more student activity. One of the most unique spaces in the center, also maintained by students only, is the book cafe. The KAIST Herald met with the manager of the Book Cafe, Min seok Roh (Department of Biological Scie
Society
Ji Yun Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:49
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Many people will agree that today’s Korea is not a healthy society. From time to time, I hear people complaining how “ill” our society is. With the increasing number of reports on the recent tragedies, people not only mourn for the individual casualties but they also express deep sorrow for our sick society. This year has been filled with too many tragedies, not forgetting the Se
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:46
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On October 17, when the heartaches for the children who died in the “Sewol Ferry incident” have yet vanished, the ventilation grate in Pangyo collapsed, 16 people died on scene and 11 were severely injured. Major scale accidents like these haven’t been uncommon in the history of South Korea. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the history of Korea has been a hist
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:46
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After a long day filled with assignments and quizzes, I sat in front of my laptop inside my dorm room to blow off some steam. Just as I turned on some music, however, an irritated shriek immediately came from my stuck-up roommate; “Can you please not? I’m trying to study here.” For a moment I felt immensely guilty for being a disturbance to those who were trying to study around m
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:44
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Recently, a distasteful conflict erupted in a club I am part of; a member of said club (whom I shall refer to as A and feminine) had had unresolved issues with a club’s associate, and under slight alcoholic influence A expressed her anger in an uproar and undirected violence. For better or worse, I had left the room slightly prior to the incident, so when the expected emergency club meeting
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Dongsung Park Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:43
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It seems as if students here at KAIST are always indifferent about policies set forth by the school and end up complaining when the school finally initiates them. Take the Munji Campus renovation project for example; Although nothing about the project has been settled yet, the school plans to either allocate the incoming freshmen, starting with the Class of 2019, to the Munji Campus, move the grad
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:41
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KAIST is well known for its small number of female students compared to other universities. Not only in KAIST but also in field of science, we see more male scientists and researchers than females. As a result, there have been movements to encourage and support women scientists and students in the field, such as the event 2014 KAIST Women’s Night held on September 30. The KAIST Herald met wi
Society
Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:45
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The webtoon artist ChoiPippPyapp (unofficial spelling) has stayed in KAIST for six months as part of the artist residency program hosted by KAIST. The KAIST Herald had the opportunity to interview her during her stay, and her responses were no less interesting than her webtoons.Hello, can you introduce yourself and explain how you got to stay in KAIST?I’m Pipp (pseudonym), the author of the
Society
Dongsung Park Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:45
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There has been much controversy about a policy whereby those who pursue careers outside the field of science and engineering after having benefited from the National Scholarship of Science and Engineering have to pay back every penny of the scholarship they have received or will receive during their time in school.. This policy became a hot potato in KAIST community last semester and accordingly a
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:44
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A performance art project by Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz has recently garnered a lot of attention. For her senior thesis, Sulkowicz is carrying her 50-pound dorm room mattress everywhere until she graduates, unless the university expels her alleged rapist. Sulkowicz claims she was raped two years ago by a male student in her dorm, but was too scared to file a complaint until meeting
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Jiwon Lee Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:38
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Few things are played down or misjudged as much as the act of eating alone. The notion that the act is a sign of reservation is worth questioning. Should there not be a reason that so many associate the following phrases or word – a lonely prospect, coping mechanism, humiliation – with this topic? T
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:38
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The Special Act on Child Abuse, passed in December 2013, was carried into effect starting September 29. The two cases of child abuse, the “Ulsan Stepmother Case,” in which an eight-year-old was beaten to death by her stepmother when she expressed hopes of going out with her friends, and the “Chilgok Stepmother Case,” in which the stepdaughter was constantly beaten and event
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Ji Yun Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:37