Four new club rooms have been added to the first floor of Tae Wul Gwan over the summer break. The construction, which started just as the students left for their summer vacation, began in early June and was fully completed by the beginning of August.

Of the four newly established rooms, two were reserved ahead of time by the clubs EDGE and Stroke, whose rooms were formerly located on the third floor of Tae Wul Gwan but had to be forfeited last May due to the expansive reconstruction of the KAIST Counseling Center.

The decision over which student organizations will be allocated the remaining two rooms has yet to be made.

Currently, while 74 student organizations are listed under the Student Club Union, the total number of club rooms available on the KAIST main campus borders around 60, meaning that many clubs, especially those founded in recent years, had no officially designated workspace. This includes clubs of ICU origin that have no practical alternatives and, up until now, have held their regular meetings at Hwaam or Munji campus.

Although efforts to create more club rooms have been underway for a long time, actual progress appeared slow until 2008, when the Student Club Union began to officially outline plans to resolve the immediate dearth.

The Student Club Union solicited the Student Welfare Services Team for cooperation and funding and the Facilities & Management Team for construction. In total, approximately 200 million won was spent in constructing the four rooms.

In addition to the new space for student activities, the standards of student welfare have reached an all-time high, as old undergraduate student dormitories began to be renovated.

Throughout the past year, the worn-out window blinds were replaced with non-flammable draping curtains.

Meanwhile, the wallpapers and interior paint of some dormitories were redone during the winter and summer vacations. While constant rainfall and humid weather during last summer hindered the task from completion for all dormitories, plans are underway to finish the job by early September.