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On August 28, Kiseok Song, a Ph.D. candidate from the KAIST Department of Electrical Engineering, was honored with the Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award. The society recognized promise in his academic achievements in biomedical technology. Song is one of the three exclusively awarded scholars around the world, this year.Song’s pioneering research was focused on biomedical techno
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:59
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On October 3 and 4, the KAIST Art and Music Festival (KAMF) 2014 was held at the Open-air Theater and the lawn in front of Main Library (E9). The festival was organized to provide KAIST students and the general public the opportunity to enjoy art and music along with nature.While the last two festivals had more KAIST students than outsiders, approximately 2,000 outsiders joined this year’s e
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:58
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The number of foreign applicants to the KAIST undergraduate program has increased over the past few years. Currently, approximately 540 students from over 70 different countries attend KAIST and make up about five percent of the student body. As more and more foreigners apply to KAIST, the competition has become more intense. In fact, in 2014, the acceptance rate for foreigners was 13.2%, which wa
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:57
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On October 7, the KAIST Graduate School of Future Strategy held the “Korean National Future Strategy” hearing at the Korea Press Center, in Seoul. Currently, the KAIST Graduate School of Future Strategy is working on a project aiming to establish national strategies that look 30 years into the future, a project initiated when former chairman of KAIST, MoonSoul Chung, donated 21.5 billi
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 17:56
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A debate session was held at the Korean National Assembly on Google’s role in monopolizing the information and communication technology (ICT) environment within South Korea. The forum was organized by Representative Byung-wan Jang from the Science, ICT, Future Planning, Broadcasting, and Communications Committee on September 18; KAIST students were also welcome to the forum.The subtopics cov
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:56
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The 2014 KAIST festival called Hakuna Matata was held by the KAIST event preparation committee, Imagination Effect, from September 24 to 26. Hakuna Matata, KAIST’s biggest festival throughout the annual calendar, was supposed to be held in the spring, but it was cancelled and postponed to the fall semester, in mourning of the Sewol ferry disaster back in April. Booths serving people food and
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 17:55
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Gemechu Bekele Tolossa, from the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, has recently started his first undergraduate semester at KAIST. He earned the highest score on the 2013 Ethiopian Higher Education Entrance Examination and entered the Addis Ababa University School of Medicine, topping his class. However, he dropped out of medical school and decided to apply to KAIST. When asked why he wante
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:54
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KAIST is hosting and recruiting for its third artist residency program called the “Endless Road.” KAIST became the first university in the country to carry out such a program last August, a program that supports budding artists, writers in particular, and seeks integration between science and art.Those who pass the selection process will be offered a maximum of six-months stay in campu
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 17:54
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On September 18, Professor Yong-Hoon Cho from the KAIST Department of Physics and his team of researchers announced that they developed a highly efficient nonlinear photonics diode with superior asymmetric light propagation. According to the research, the photonic diode could be the best alternative to the current silicon-based electronic diode, as its faster data transfer and processing, with lit
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:53
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On September 23, KAIST and the National Assembly hosted a forum to discuss plans to develop Korea into an intellectual property (IP) hub country and establish a committee dedicated to the cause. The event was held at the National Assembly Members’ Office Building.Many experts on IP attended the forum, including Kab Yoon Jeong, deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Hye-young Won, member of
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:52
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A research team from Yonsei University has developed a new cultivation platform that can produce high quality three-dimensional (3-D) stem cell spheroids expected to be widely used in curing blood-vessel diseases. Professor Taeyoon Lee of the Electrical Engineering department and Professor Seungwoo Cho of the Biological Engineering department developed a superhydrophobic surface that allows water
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:51
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In this month’s issue of Food and Bioprocess Technology, a team from the University of Florida has announced that it is one step closer to achieving its goal of eliminating peanut allergens by removing 80% in whole peanuts. According to Professor Wade Yang, the lead author of this experiment, researchers must cut the number of peanut allergens to below a designated level for peanut-allergic
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:50
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On October 2, Matthias Gruber, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, disclosed counter-intuitive links between curiosity and learning in his research, which was published online in Neuron, a neuroscience journal. The popular belief is that high curiosity leads to enhanced learning abilities, but the results also showed that the more curious participants were better able to learn c
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:50
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On August 6, a group of Princeton University researchers published a paper called “The Cerebellum, sensitive periods, and autism” in the neuroscience journal Neuron. The team proposed a new theory stating that an injury to the cerebellum during its early years potentially hinders its ability to process information that influence the development of other brain regions and leads to "
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:49
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Researchers from Duke University have fashioned a “gigapixel whole-body photographic camera” out of 34 micro-cameras. The camera can image the whole human body and identify lesions on the skin that indicate skin cancer; the technology’s early detection of skin cancer drastically increases the chances of the patient’s recovery. According to researcher Daniel Marks, “a
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:46
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The KAIST Herald Staff
2015.01.18 00:37
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As the average retail price of cigarettes in Korea has been frozen at 2,500 Korean Won for the past decade, the Korean government's recent announcement on the proposed tobacco price increase was a rather unexpected one to many Koreans. However, other countries have already been engaging in long fights with tobacco by implementing various policies and campaigns, including taxation. What are the ci
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.01.18 00:34
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With the Korean government waging war on tobacco by spiking up cigarette taxes by 80%, the public raised their polemical voices on this decisive move. The Korean Ministry of Security and Public Administration proposed a new tax reform on tobacco this September, led by the Park Geun-hye administration. This new policy attempts to kill two birds with one stone by curbing the smoking rate within Sout
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.01.18 00:32
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Last Thursday, the South Korean government proposed to increase tobacco taxes for the first time in a decade, a bill which when approved by the National Assembly would nearly double current tobacco prices, from 2,500 to 4,500 Korean Won for an average pack of cigarettes. This tax hike would allegedly catch two birds with one stone, securing extra tax revenue for the government and curbing the smok
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.01.18 00:29
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Currently the cigarette price in Korea is divided into two main parts: the factory price plus the retail margin and taxes. The retail price of a pack of cigarette is 2500 Korean Won, with 950 Won going to the cigarette companies and retailers and the government taking the remaining 1550 Won. The taxes include tobacco consumption taxes, local education taxes, health promotion payments, and VATs (va
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.01.18 00:22