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“How do you speak English so well?” others often ask me. My answer, in a half-joking manner, would always be, “Colonialism.” Which, when you think about it, is not too far from the truth.Every June 12, my country, the Philippines, celebrates its annual Independence Day in honor of the day we first d
Column
Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2022.06.13 22:25
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In an attempt to revitalize the KAIST campus culture, President Kwang Hyung Lee initiated the QAIST New Student Culture Competition last year. The school plans to implement the ideas proposed by the winning teams. The KAIST Herald interviewed members of the Grand Prize winners, Stella Yolanda of KAI
Interview
Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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YouTube, the second most visited website worldwide, is one of the most successful examples of acquisition. It was bought by Google for 1.65 billion USD just a year after its establishment in 2005 and is estimated to be worth up to 160 billion USD in 2022. How could a mere startup blow up its net wor
Debate
Jihyun Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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Although startups are also businesses by definition, not every business is a startup. Similarly, not every executive entrepreneur responsible for the management of their company is a founder. The major difference between both definitions lies in their individual end goals and strategies to achieve t
Debate
Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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“History repeats itself,” goes a quote often repeated by anybody vaguely familiar with past and current events. An authoritarian populist gets elected president? Hey, I’ve seen that before! A territorial war breaks out in Europe? Been there, done that! A plague spreads like wildfire and puts the who
Society
Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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Last month, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) came under fire for a discriminatory special discount policy on Children’s Day. The original announcement said that up to two accompanying guardians of children would receive free admission to seven royal tombs and palaces on May 5, but children
Aspects of Society
Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.05.23 21:56
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It does not take long to convince the average person of the bad side of corporate — capitalism, greedy power-tripping elites, illegal labor, you name it. For STEM students and researchers, there is basically only one alternative career: academia. Compared to its industry counterpart, working in acad
Column
Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.05.23 21:56
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We are all guilty of whataboutism. It happens so frequently that it’s no exaggeration to say it is almost encoded in our genome — no less than our animal instincts. From a young age, siblings use it to avoid chores or punishment. “Why do I have to wash the dishes today? You didn’t help set the plate
Column
Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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“Mental health”, “mindset”, “self-talk”, … “coping”. These terms are used more and more frequently these days than in the age of our grandparents, who typically suggest that it's the fault of our phones that we are suffering from low self-esteem and a fairly negative outlook towards life. But if we
Column
Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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Many of us have heard the words “blockchain” and “mining” used in the context of earning Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) at the so-called “crypto farms”. For some, the definitions were enough to grasp the basic idea and start mining themselves, but for many, the idea is still foreign. Sadly, t
Column
Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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Everyone has heard of Photoshop, and there’s a reason why it is so popular. Given superior flexibility, photo editors turn into magic wands in the hands of not only professionals, but also amateurs and newbies. Such software is capable of working visual wonders — from creating abstract art to buildi
Column
Fuad Samadov Junior Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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For almost a year, South Koreans have been fuming over Yoon Suk-yeol’s 120-hour work week remark. At an average working time of 1,967 hours per employee per year, Korea already has the second longest working period among OECD countries in 2019 — 241 hours more than the OECD average, and 323 hours lo
Debate
Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.04.14 01:00
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South Korea’s incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol had made headlines with his controversial remarks about 120-hour work weeks. His comment, which opposes outgoing president Moon Jae-in’s 52-hour work week policy, was one of the hottest discussion points leading up to last March’s presidential election.
Debate
Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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On May 10, Yoon Suk-yeol is set to take office as the next president of South Korea after winning the closest and most divisive election in the country’s history. Just a day before the inauguration day, my own country — the Philippines — will hold its own presidential election after 90 grueling days
Column
Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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This was supposed to be my last semester at KAIST. Looking back at my stay here, there’s a great sense of surreal duality in it. I can never believe that I have been in this place for nearly four years. It feels like only yesterday that I carried my luggage into Somang Hall and started this adventur
Column
Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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“It was a gloomy November evening. My friend and I were sitting in one of the on-campus lounges, tired after a whole day of focused studies and work. During the time of day-end relaxation, you let your mind wander, and conversations with friends keep getting deeper. At some point, we found ourselves
Interview
Fuad Samadov Junior Staff Reporter
2022.04.12 17:45
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Founded in the Fall 2021 semester, KAINATION is a donation club seeking to foster collective effort among students to solve internal issues and help KAIST advance to become the world's leading university with unity and purpose. This month, The KAIST Herald interviewed KAINATION's founder, Changseob
Interview
Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.04.12 17:26
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I turned 22 this year. By the time this article is published, I will have 320 days left to jam to Taylor Swift’s “22” while being, well, actually 22. I am also (hopefully) in my last semester, and had I not donned the title of the “Head of Society”, I would have been a “Senior Staff Reporter” at thi
Column
Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.03.24 23:18
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It’s been a few weeks since Russian forces entered Ukraine. Since then, internal displacement has been growing and millions of people have been leaving the country as refugees, a huge proportion of them fleeing to neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, and Hungary. The war shows no sign of s
Column
Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.03.24 23:18
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In recent months, the term “non-fungible token”, or NFT, seems to have taken a significant foothold in our financial media outlets. Despite its origins tracing back as far as 2014, the recent and sudden burst in the popularity of NFTs has undoubtedly left many still confused as to what it actually i
Column
Jun Seong Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2022.03.24 23:18