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Google the word “self-care”, and you’ll most likely find articles about the five self-care habits you need, or how sleep and exercise are essential, or capitalist suggestions of buying “self-care kits”. Especially in the past year, more and more people are looking to self-care techniques to help cop
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Jaymee Palma Senior Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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‘Twas the morning of October 25th, people carried on with their lives, researching in labs, going to work, or getting ready for class. Everything seemed like an average weekday morning, well of course, until the internet died. With the sudden information blackout, like panic buys in a shortage, peop
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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You have a deadline in two hours and an exam in two weeks. You haven’t started the deadline yet, nor have you started studying. Because whenever you try to, you feel anxious and judge yourself for not being able to do the homework perfectly or understand the exam contents. You always do this; you sh
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Jaymee Palma Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:27
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On September 29, I participated in a book talk by Jeong You Jeong held by the KAIST library. She came to talk about her newest book, The Complete Happiness, which is about a narcissist driving everyone around her into misery for her own happiness. In relation to the book, Jeong talked about psycholo
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:27
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The ability to bring new life into the world will forever be one of the most mundane miracles of humanity — challenging but commonplace, both simple and incredibly complex. Most people, even from childhood, have considered becoming a parent at some point; some might even make life plans years in adv
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Ada Carpenter Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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Every change in the tide begins with a ripple. Fifty years ago, in September 1971, an ad-hoc group of environmentalists called the Don’t Make a Wave Committee assembled with one goal: stopping US nuclear testing off the west coast of Alaska. Planning to put themselves in the path of a bomb, they set
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Ada Carpenter Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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When I returned home after my first semester in KAIST, “Did you have plastic surgery?” was among the most frequently asked questions by friends. Each time, the question was asked with a little chuckle, and was not meant to be taken seriously. Indeed, South Korea is famous for having the highest numb
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Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2021.10.26 18:26
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In November 2017, the residents of Pohang were devastated by the strongest earthquake in South Korea’s modern history. Commendable government response resulted in 80% of the damages being restored within 4 days of the initial earthquake, and after three weeks, cash donations amounting to more than 3
Debate
Benedict Fabia Junior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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Since September 6, the South Korean government has been handing out another round of COVID-19 relief funds to the bottom 88% of the income bracket. Eligibility is assessed based on health insurance premiums that are levied based on an individual's income and property owned. Permanent foreign residen
Debate
Hanbit Lee Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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For the last few weeks, you probably received a number of emails about book clubs, talks, online book fairs, and other events. This month, The KAIST Herald interviewed the Reading Promotion Committee (RPC), the organizer of these events, to find out who they are and what they do. Could you briefly i
Interview
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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Nowadays, computational methods are essential in almost all fields of science. Social sciences are no exception, despite the fact that they are often considered to be some of the most “traditional” forms of science. In order to learn more about this topic, The KAIST Herald interviewed Professor Lanu
Interview
Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2021.10.01 19:05
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What separates livestock and pets? What allows us to enjoy meat from livestock when the thought of eating pets disgusts us? What makes us see livestock as food and pets as family? To put it simply, it is the deep bonds formed between humans and pets that separate them. As human-centric and selfish i
Debate
Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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Kalbi, the prized and pampered pig who rose to internet fame for both cuteness and the looming threat of being eaten after 100 days, is in fact perfectly well. The video apparently showing him being butchered and eaten — which received three million views in only a week — was “a work of fiction”, an
Debate
Ada Carpenter Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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Earlier last month, I flew from Incheon to Abu Dhabi. With my flight time being late at night and with COVID-19 travel restrictions, I did expect Incheon International Airport to be less crowded than usual, but I was still surprised to see it so empty. There were only a handful of people in sight. T
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Hanbit Lee Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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As a Fall ‘21 freshman, I’ve only been on campus for about two hours total. I walked around, got my student ID, and left in a bus. Just two years ago, people reading that sentence would assume that I took a leave of absence.It’s an oft repeated phrase: we are living through crazy times. Sometimes, i
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Hyun A Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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Every journey begins with a single step. Mine began in a place probably familiar to most students: in the spring semester of 2021, the worst semester I’ve experienced so far. I was juggling being editor-in-chief, doing my graduation thesis, taking classes, feeling sad that I am yet again unable to g
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Jaymee Palma Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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Competing at the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of athletic ability — an opportunity for pride and patriotism while representing one’s home nation. One of the athletes talented enough to compete at the recent Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was an Australian-born Korean swimmer, Se-Bom Lee. He represented A
People and Community
Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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When we were innocent children first encountering the vast abyss called the Internet, the very first thing we learned, hopefully, was to not believe everything on the Internet — may it be Wikipedia in its early days, fake profiles on Myspace, or random strangers chatting you up in chatrooms. It was
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Kun-Woo Song Senior Staff Reporter
2021.10.01 19:05
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As the days get longer and warmer, and as the threat of the pandemic diminishes with the promise of vaccination, the desire to go outside and enjoy the summer is getting stronger. I can’t wait for slow and lazy days relaxing in the sunshine, and I definitely need the opportunity to abandon the stres
Column
Ada Carpenter Senior Staff Reporter
2021.06.28 23:31
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Back in my dark edgy tween days, I was one of those ten-year-old girls who posted personality quiz results on Facebook every ten minutes. And so were my other friends at that time, but sadly they grew out of it pretty quickly. I, on the other hand, still take random quizzes just for the hell of it,
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Chrysan Angela Staff Reporter
2021.06.28 23:31