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POSTECH Professors Play a Relief Role in Company’s Crisis
POSTECH Professors Play a Relief Role in Company’s Crisis
POSTECH professors will play a relieving role in the crisis of the Korean-based materials and parts companies caused by Japan’s “whitelist” exclusion. It will support not only Japan’s regulatory sector but also areas with high foreign dependence and cover both large and small businesses through a two-track strategy.First of all, ‘expert pool’ system is prepared for small and medium enterprises. This method creates a database of 100 professors in ...
Society Where Justice Lives on
Society Where Justice Lives on
Students at Korea University and Seoul National University (SNU) both held rallies on Aug. 23. Korea University students demanded a probe into any irregularities considering the way the daughter of justice minister nominee Cho Kuk was accepted to the university through an early admission program. The flashpoint is the question about the way Cho’s daughter entered college. Her name was cited as the first author in a paper published in the Korean J...
Inaugural Address by 8th President Moo Hwan Kim
Inaugural Address by 8th President Moo Hwan Kim
Honorable Chairman Choi Jeong-woo!With the Mace that you have passed onto me raised in front, I vow to lead POSTECH with great responsibility. Thank you.My beloved members of POSTECH and distinguished guests! I would like to extend my deepest gratitude and welcome your presence here today.Today, after joining POSTECH 32 years ago, when it had just opened as Korea’s first research university, I take my first step as its eighth president before you...
WHO Defined Game Addiction as Official Medical Condition
WHO Defined Game Addiction as Official Medical Condition
At the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly held on May 25, member states officially voted to adopt the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) that lists game addiction as a ‘gaming disorder.’After the ICD-10 was adopted in 1990, the WHO has discovered that game addiction was one of the major causes of death and health threats in modern society, and game addiction was one of them. The WHO listed gam...
Hong Kong Protests - Why?
Hong Kong Protests - Why?
It has been quite a while since the latest protest in Hong Kong started and yet the unrest shows no sign of stopping. Many protesters are risking rubber bullets and tear gas, but what makes them bear all this violence? To understand we need to look through some context that underlies the situation.Hong Kong’s HistoryHong Kong significantly differs from many other cities in China. It was under the British government for 150 years. After the Opium ...