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A dainty but not far-fetched analogy draws parallel between our social lives and the performing stage. It’d be more accurate to speak of a stage where each and every performer is drawn out with one’s own spotlight. On daily basis, we become subjects of attention, not just pertinent to our looks, but more so on the things we say and the things we do. Our rhetoric may be appraised on the
Column
Jae Hwan Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:18
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On June 3, Seoul will officially become a “City of Stars” as it was sung in the American box office hit, La La Land. Fake Virgin Seoul has officially announced that La La Land In Concert: A Live To Film Celebration will start its Korean tour on June 3. It will have its performance at the Seoul Lotte Concert Hall on June 3 and 4 before leaving to Busan for its Busan concert on June 6 at
Culture
Hyunwoo Shin Junior Staff
2017.05.03 22:17
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I f the 1990s was the Disney Renaissance era, the 2010s would be the Disney Reminiscence era. The 1990s was nicknamed in such a way because many of the studio’s best animated successes — from The Little Mermaid and Aladdin all the way up to Mulan and Tarzan — were produced during that time. Two decades later, Disney is looking back to its past masterpieces. Its quest is to bring
Weekend
Hyoyeon Kim Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:17
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On March 26, during the undergraduate student representative meeting, KAIST’s Undergraduate Student Council Auditing Committee submitted a job inspection report on the Undergraduate Student Dormitory Council (USDC). The report revealed a series of actions by the USDC that shocked the KAIST community.Through the report, the auditing committee drew five main malfeasances by the USDC: misuse of
News
Kun-Woo Song Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:14
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A collaboration effort between Professor Hee-Sung Park from the Department of Chemistry and Professor Chan Bae Park from Ajou University produced a new technology that allows for the expansion of the genetic code of house mice (Mus musculus) through the integration of unnatural amino acids at a target protein using the regulation of acetylation. The technique will contribute to the recognition and elimination of aberrant cellular proteins that lead to severe diseases such as diabetes, dementia, and cancer.
News
Juhoon Lee Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 22:33
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Thomas Jefferson once famously — and bitterly — declared, “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Though stated when the then President of the United States (POTUS) had grown fatigued by the incessant news of his personal pursuits and rumors during his candidacy, the quote had been resurrected with vigor in response to “The Great Flood” of fake news and distrust in the media. Remarkably, the wariness towards media has been skewed disproportionately towards the traditional media forms, while the social media networks have surged in both popularity from its users.
Feature
Juhoon Lee Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 22:29
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A collaborative effort between Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) has led to the discovery of how the human antibody C10 prevents Zika virus infection, further pushing the quest for a cure of the virus that has plagued the world in recent years.The Zika virus first “docks” on the cell; the virus then initiates its “fusion” process
Highlights
Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 20:05
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Professor Kwangjo Kim of the School of Computing has been selected recently as a 2017 Fellow for the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). A non-profit organization that is dedicated to cryptology and its applications, the IACR has annually selected up to six fellows from its members who either made great contributions to cryptologic research or contributed and promoted academ
News
Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2017.03.30 13:21
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On December 1, the KAIST Times hosted a conference with Yeong Deuk Cho and Sungjin Han, the candidates for the next Undergraduate Student Council (USC) president and vice president positions respectively, to hold a platform for discussion on their policies. All students were invited to participate in this conference, whether to ask questions or to simply listen to the candidates’ stances and
News
Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2017.03.30 13:17
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At the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) World Congress, which took place in the Netherlands from October 10 to 14 and was attended by more than 2,000 participants, KAIST researchers Seungsoo Lee, Changhoon Yoon, Jaehyun Nam, and Professor Seungwon Shin of the School of Electrical Engineering were awarded the Best SDN Solution Showcase Award for their work on leading the SDN security project DELTA
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:36
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On October 25, KAIST President Sung-Mo Kang and Technical University Denmark (DTU) Senior Vice President Martin P. Bendsoe signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Embassy of Denmark in Seoul. The MOU highlights exchanging students and researchers through startup programs, in addition to strengthening the intervarsity collaboration in education and research. The signing took place during
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:32
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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 Optics Laboratory at KAIST.In the paper, the authors describe a novel method to build holographic image sensors with the
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:26
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The Korean people had witnessed how Prosecutor Young-ryeol Lee appeared on television to pinpoint the nation’s incumbent president as an accomplice in an unprecedentedly controversial corruption scandal involving Soon-sil Choi. President Park’s status since then is “criminal suspect”.Around the corner lie pending investigation results, but President Park’s political s
Feature
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:21
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Campus France is organizing the 2016 Etudier en France Fair as a rendezvous occasion for students looking to study in France and coordinators of French higher education institutions. Translated as “Study in France”, the name of the fair says it all; organizers hope that participants “gain valuable information about what it is like to study in France.”Scheduled from 1 p.m. t
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:13
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We are at the peak of inflated expectations about drones. So many people are hyped up, in one way or another, about what drones are capable of delivering to us: pizzas and burritos, missiles and railguns, fun and thrill, political debates and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) meetings, etc to the point that how drones themselves have been brought to us is mostly overlooked. Now, having explore
Feature
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:05
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On September 22, Professor Hasok Chang was invited to give a seminar at the School of Humanities and Social Science Building (N4) at 5:30 p.m. As the first in a series of Science and Technology Policy (STP) Colloquium seminars scheduled this semester, the seminar by Professor Chang was titled “Voltaic batteries and technoscience in the 19th century” and was attended by about 40 profess
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:02
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I promise that this will be my last piece on trump. I really do. Well… we’ll see what happens next week. Hopefully Trump won’t do anything worth mentioning. I say this and yet, deep inside my heart, I know that the Trump train never stops. As President-elect of the US, Trump, in his typical bombastic and Trump-esque fashion, made headlines by appointing controversial figures to
Aspects of Society
Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.03.29 23:58
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On September 28, the School of Electrical Engineering (EE) has officially announced its initiative, ambitiously titled “EE Co-op” program at the school building (E3-2) at 7 p.m. EE Co-op is the school’s revamped, skill-set- oriented internship program. Professor Yong Hoon Lee outlined the specifics of the implementation at the EE Co- op Information Session attended by fifty under
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:53
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The 2017 KAIST Grand Challenge 30 Project is open to submissions until October 31. KAIST has organized this initiative to encourage researchers to tackle globally problematic issues and study fundamental and basic sciences for an extended period of time up to 30 years, without any mid-project evaluation of the “fruits” of the research being pursued. Full-time employees of KAIST with mo
News
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:52
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Given the variety of policies adopted by different countries, one may be inclined to think that Korea is in dire need of relaxing the progressive rate it imposes on electricity consumption, especially for households. However, to students at KAIST, where electricity consumption at dormitories comes at no additional cost apart from the fxed monthly dormitory fees, it is apparent that an impetuous re
Feature
Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:47