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This summer in Korea has been heated due to both record-high temperatures and conflict over the largely controversial electricity fees. The public has united with many parts of the media to criticize the ineffective system and to demand an improved and more balanced way to reach a reasonable goal of electricity consumption reduction. On the other hand, government officials have been as persistent
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 03:30
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A joint research team headed by Professor Keon-jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST and by Dr. Jae- hyun Kim from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials has recently developed a continuous roll-processing technology. This innovation delivers flexible large-scale integrated circuits, a crucial component in the construction of CPUs in computers. It then p
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 03:26
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With the recent peak of interest in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) following the hugely popular Pokemon GO, KAIST has officially begun its research into the aforesaid technologies. Held at the KAIST Institute Building (KI) on September 1, the opening ceremony of the Augmented Reality Lab gathered over 50 researchers and developers of the field. The lab, headed by Professor Woon-ta
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 03:24
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KAIST K-School has established a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation degree, its first master’s degree to systematically teach entrepreneurship practices to students with backgrounds in science and technology. The one-year program was officially launched this fall semester with the cooperation of 16 other departments at KAIST. Award-winning professors with first-hand experience in entreprene
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Chanyoung Ryu Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 03:17
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The origins of the current price structure for KEPCO-generated power dates back to 1973, when the world was struck by one of the worst energy crises in modern history. During the Arab-Israeli war, Arab members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries imposed an oil embargo, sending oil prices, and hence energy prices, soaring. The progressive pricing system was thus introduced in
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:14
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Professor Minkee Choi’s team from the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have developed a new high-performance carbon-dioxide absorbent. His team has also succeeded in synthesizing moderate volumes of this new adsorbent, indicating that, unlike previous adsorbents, it is scalable and will mostly likely be commercialized industry. Their research was published online in
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:12
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Thomson Reuters, the multinational media and information company, named KAIST Asia’s Most Innovative University for 2016. On August 30, the company released “Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities,” a list that “identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.&rd
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:09
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Last month, China’s Chongqing University of Technology (CQUT) agreed to adopt KAIST’s Freshman English Program. CQUT’s Freshman English Camp will be organized by the KAIST School of Humanities and Social Sciences for the next three years. CQUT’s Freshman English Camp is modeled after KAIST’s “Academic English Camp”, which has been run by KAIST’s EFL
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:57
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In a month when KAIST made headlines for topping Reuter’s “Asia’s Most Innovative University” list, Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee became Asia’s first to receive the Bailey Award. Named after its namesake Professor James E. Bailey, who made pioneering contributions to the field of bioengineering, the award recognizes individuals who have made field-advancing con
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:47
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With Choi Soon-sil Gate shaking the very foundation of the nation after an earthquake had just a few weeks prior in September, the ripples from the revelations of corruption and fraudulence have left an aftershock throughout South Korea.
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Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:41
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This September, Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced its first “Silicon Valley Internship Program” (SVIP), which will train and send students to Silicon Valley in a bid to cultivate “globally aware tech entrepreneurs”. This internship program, which is co-organized by MSIP and the KAIST Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy, is
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:38
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September was the first time Dr. Dana Keoki Jackson returned to KAIST since his visit last April, when he talked to KAIST students about the technologies of particular interest to Lockheed Martin at the time.This time round Dr. Jackson focused his speech on the leadership challenges commonly faced in the aerospace and defense industry and “how that translates into different approaches in man
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:28
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Physicist Greg Huber and his team at the University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) discovered a striking resemblance between the structures of a neutron star and a cellular organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).
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Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:28
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For this year’s KAIST’s annual departmental information sessions, many of the freshmen would have had to participate in more sessions than in previous years. That is due to the school’s new curriculum announced at the beginning of the calendar year by the KAIST Curriculum Review Committee, in a bid to strengthen the “students’ professional competence”. From this
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:20
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A timeline of the events of the Choi Soon-sil Gate Scandal.
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2016.11.25 15:56
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KAIST signed a Student Exchange Agreement with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) on October 19.
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2016.11.25 15:52
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Professor Jae Kyoung Kim recently created a mathematical model that predicts the distribution of p53, a cell growth inhibitor, with the circadian clock.
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2016.11.25 15:43
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Pessimism might not be the correct mentality to have towards current drone regulations.
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2016.11.25 15:32
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On October 31, Nature Communications published a paper titled “Exploiting the speckle correlation scattering matrix for a compact reference-free holographic image sensor”, written by Professor YongKeun Park and graduate student KyeoReh Lee, both from the Biomedical OpticsLaboratory at KAIST.In the paper, the authors describe a novel method to build holographic image sensors with the use of commerc
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 06:13
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Seems like the root is a plant's brain after all.
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Kun-Woo Song Junior Staff Reporter
2016.11.24 20:40