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Dear Readers,Spring in KAIST brings effervescent cherry blossoms, juicy strawberries, and warm sunlight — but for the truly “woke” KAIST students, it just brings the looming doom of the midterms and the horrid onslaught of visitors who are drawn to the campus like, well, how couples are drawn to cherry blossom selfies.
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Juhoon Lee Editor-in-Chief
2019.04.21 21:25
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My parents were part of the “Protesting Generation”. Perhaps these stories, in my mind, had created an idealistic view of a university: the hub of creativity, the bazaar of knowledge, and the crucible of active minds fighting for advancement of society. Living in a world brimming with animosity, I had expected KAIST to live up to my image.
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Juhoon Lee Editor-in-Chief
2019.03.25 21:39
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The Editor-in-Chief's first letter of her term.
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Juhoon Lee Editor-in-Chief
2018.09.25 16:04
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Ever since I came to Korea, I’ve been struggling with my sense of self-worth and belonging and one fundamental question of life: what is happiness?
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2018.06.20 07:35
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During the end of last semester, midway through exam week, I took my first steps into the world of investing with a cautious buy of cryptocurrency.
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2018.06.19 22:07
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The past. It defines who you are as a person, a culmination of every mistake you have made and every regret you have had.
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2018.04.11 13:22
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What does The KAIST Herald mean to you?
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2018.03.29 01:49
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Dear readers,As the weather gets colder and the semester nears its inevitable end, I can’t help but imagine the bright lights and harmonious carols, that Christmas ambience signifying the end of a long semester and the start of a long deserved break. I can’t wait to just enjoy life for what it is instead of worrying about exams and assignments.
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2017.12.27 22:04
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I opened my eyes to darkness. The only light in the room was from the dimly lit computer screen in front of me. As I leaned forward to look around the room, my lower back screamed in pain; I winced as I checked the damage. The muscles were tense and swollen.
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2017.11.20 22:56
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More than 30 years ago, my father set his foot on American soil for the first time in his life. Young and ambitious, he was dispatched there, along with my mother and sister. They quickly grew accustomed to the culture there; they were a happy little family.
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2017.10.19 12:24
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Despite the inherent paranoia that forces me to turn around every once in a while in the darkness of dawn, there is something oddly relieving about walking back home at five in the morning.
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Sejoon Huh Editor-in-Chief
2017.09.22 17:17
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Dear readers,As consumers of information, our primary concern is no longer the lack of its availability; rather, it is the indiscriminate overconsumption of it. Inaccurate, misleading, or outright false information run more rampant with each passing day. What I find most troubling is that day by day, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from what is true and what is not.Today’s p
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.06.03 22:06
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Dear readers,Who are we? Why are we here? What is our purpose? Such are the fundamental questions that keep me awake at night from time to time. However, to claim that I would be the first of my kind to raise such questions could not be any more arrogant and myopic. Many great philosophers, like Descartes, Hume, and Nietzsche, have offered profound ontological insights surrounding the meaning, pur
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.05.03 22:55
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Dear readers,to be frank, I am surprised at how quickly the semester, let alone this year, has gone by. Back in September, as the new Editor-in-Chief of The KAIST Herald, I promised to the readership to uphold a certain set of values within our newspaper. In my first Letter from the Chief, I pledged to commit myself to spreading the truth and fighting the power. Reflecting back on the semester so
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.03.29 23:05
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Dear readers,For many college students, March marks the beginning of the spring semester, and along with it, fresh starts on multiple fronts. For the incoming freshmen, they are standing before more or less four years of college life ahead of them. The path lying ahead is teeming with endless possibilities; where the path will take them depends on the choices they make. The path is analogous to th
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2017.03.29 22:19
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Dear readers,autumn. It announces its arrival by greeting us with the embrace of the howling breeze and the sight of falling leaves every morning. Out of all the other seasons in Korea, people seem to be particularly fond of autumn. As traditional Korean sayings go, autumn is the season of Cheongomabi — a prosperous time when skies are clear and the horses get fat. It is also the perfect sea
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2016.11.26 17:27
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Dear readers, as musician Jimi Hendrix once said, “When the power of love overcomes the love for power, the world will know peace”. In light of recent events, our world as we know it seems to be heading in the completely opposite direction of peace. Those holding power have failed to wield it responsibly; instead they have allowed themselves to be tainted by their primal lust for power and desire
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2016.11.26 17:12
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There I was, sitting at the end of the roundtable in The KAIST Herald newsroom, feeling the weight of all the eyes on me. How excruciating it was to realize that every word that left my mouth would determine my first impression on the people evaluating my potential as a Herald reporter. Never before in my life have I been more stressed over and attentive to each and every word. Yet, when asked the
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Young Jip Kim Editor-in-Chief
2016.11.10 21:57
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Dear Readers,I am no fan of basketball, but once I came by a basketball joke:"Why is Pizza Hut better than LeBron James? They deliver."It is not pretty sight to come across people asking for extensions few hours before the deadline. Nor is it good news to hear from a third person that a colleague will be leaving soon. Still worse is the duty of having to criticize others?work that undoub
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Wan Ju Kang Editor-in-Chief
2015.01.17 16:52
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Dear Readers,This issue of The KAIST Herald will be my last as the editor-in-chief and as a KAIST student. The simultaneous letting go of my two main responsibilities for the past year and four years, respectively, has left me feeling disoriented. Albeit, with the coming exams and final term projects KAIST has so generously bombarded me with as a parting gift, it is hard to dwell on these troublin
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Gyuri Bae Assistant Editor
2014.06.15 16:09