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A special exhibition named La Vocation de Lumière (“The Calling of Light”) is being held at the Kim En Joong Hall on the fourth floor of the Academic Cultural Center (ACC). The exhibit began on September 18 and will remain for members of the KAIST community and the public until December 29.The exhib
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Benedict Fabia Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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The revision of the Medical Service Act in South Korea finally started taking effect after the two-year grace period, making surveillance in operating rooms an obligation. All surgery rooms that operate on unconscious patients now have to install surveillance cameras and provide footage upon patient
Debate
Kyu-Ri Kim Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 16:37
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A familiar refrain when engaging in small talk as a college student. I’ve been asked this question countless times, and have asked it to other people just as frequently. My answer has changed throughout the years. Although it can be annoying sometimes to keep hearing the same question, what can be e
Column
Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Senior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 16:35
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The KAIST Art and Music Festival (KAMF) 2023 was held at the Academic Cultural Complex (ACC) lawn on September 1 and 2. With the concept “KAMF: [ ]”, the KAMF organizing committee wanted the students themselves to provide meaning to the event.The success of this year’s KAMF could be seen from its sc
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.09.28 21:05
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Jujutsu Kaisen is an anime and manga series that follows the life of three student sorcerers and their teacher Gojo — the most powerful sorcerer in the series — as they join a secret organization to battle curses and evil sorcerers using their supernatural powers to protect humanity from dark forces
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Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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Professor Sang Ouk Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been selected as one of the Meeting Chairs of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for the 2025 Spring Meeting. Professor Kim has earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST.
News
Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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School of Electrical Engineering Endowed Chair Professor Yung Yi, who dedicated 15 years of his valuable service to KAIST and his students, passed away on August 27. He graduated from Seoul National University with a BS and MS degree in computer science and engineering, and from University of Texas
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ChaeYeon Ryu Assistant Editor
2023.09.25 16:42
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In an effort to inspire physically challenged students to become the next generation’s leading scientists, KAIST hosted the “2023 KAIST Science Camp for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes” in collaboration with the Korean Society of Type 1 Diabetes last July 20 and 21. 32 young minds ranging from primary sc
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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KAIST opened a special exhibition of donated works by Hee-Young Yoo, a Korean master of color field abstraction and the current president of the National Academy of Arts, on September 4 at the Auditorium (E15). The exhibition featuring 14 of Yoo’s artworks is open to the public for free until August
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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The Ministry of Science and ICT's National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST) has notified 25 affiliated research institutions of significant budget reductions for the upcoming fiscal year, raising concerns within South Korea's science and technology research community. The proposed bu
News
Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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From September 4 to 7, the KAIST Job Fair was held on the second floor of the Lyu Keun-Chul Sports Complex (N3) and the fifth floor of the Academic Cultural Complex (ACC). It was held in partnership with Careertalk, a company that connects its users to over 250 companies globally. Several of Korea’s
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2023.09.25 16:42
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KAIST formally launched the Graduate School of Semiconductor Technology in its inauguration ceremony on August 30. In anticipation of the ever-increasing importance of the semiconductor industry, the Graduate School of Semiconductor Technology was established to train global talent capable of becomi
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2023.09.25 16:42
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A team led by Professor Se-Bum Paik from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has employed AlexNET, a brain-inspired AI model, to understand the emergence of number sense in young animals even without training. Many animals have an intuitive sense for the arithmetic relationship between tw
Research
Alazar Teka Gemechu Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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Official language exams are global numeric standards that most institutions use to gauge a person’s proficiency in a particular language. KAIST alone requires standardized test scores like the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for English or the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), a g
Op-Ed
Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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It’s fascinating how most interactions between foreigners and Koreans differ by a huge margin from interactions among themselves, especially in a university that is gradually becoming more international. KAISTians have been stereotypically classified under one of two categories: the kind, friendly,
Op-Ed
Aow Si Li, Sara Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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From a stabbing rampage at Seoul’s Sillim Station in July to threats to bomb universities and government agencies, including KAIST, in August, South Korea has been seeing a sudden spike in terrorism in recent months. These incidents and threats have caused a great deal of shock to Korean citizens, s
Column
Sung-Bin Park Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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The recent series of teacher suicides is a new chapter in South Korea’s discussion on the education system. The initial shockwave hit with the death of the 24-year-old teacher at Seoul Seo2 Elementary School, who was subject to long-term parent bullying. Though the extent varied, many public school
Debate
Kyu-Ri Kim Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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South Korean teachers are in the middle of a wide protest, sparked by the slew of unfortunate suicides of school teachers over the last few weeks. Teachers have been reporting incidents of receiving late-night calls and complaints from parents regarding their manner of disciplining students over una
Debate
Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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With the new art museum slowly taking shape, art is emerging as a fresh interest for many tech-immersed students. With respect to the advent of the art sector at KAIST, we met Professor Jinjoon Lee, Assistant Professor at KAIST leading the Art and Technology Center and Total Experience Creative Medi
Interview
Kyu-Ri Kim Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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A three-year-old kid reads fluently, memorizes the multiplication table up to 19, and solves algebraic equations. Even in the eyes of a KAIST student surrounded by science prodigies on campus, this is astounding. Baek Gang-hyeon, often dubbed “the gifted boy” by the media, entered Seoul Science High
Column
Hae-Rim Kim Editor-in-Chief
2023.09.25 16:42