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POSTECH Offers CES 2023 Experience to Class of 2024
POSTECH Offers CES 2023 Experience to Class of 2024
POSTECH has decided to offer the class of 2024 (those who entered POSTECH in 2020) a chance to participate in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023. They plan to dispatch students in the class of 2024 from Jan. 3 to Jan. 8, 2023, to Las Vegas, during which the CES 2023 is scheduled to take place (from Jan. 5-8, 2023, in Las Vegas). The CES is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and takes place at the beg...
Street Startup Fighter
Street Startup Fighter
APGC-Lab is a POSTECH student organization that spreads entrepreneurial culture and organizes startup events that guide Postechians to start their businesses. For those newly aspiring entrepreneurs, APGC-Lab hosts idea-thons, seminars, and talks to provide preliminary knowledge about starting a business and creating a viable business model. In addition, it partners with startup investors from Naver D2SF, Kakao Ventures, Mashup Angels, and POSTECH...
Legislators Propose Bill to Ban Unconsented Phone Call Recordings
Legislators Propose Bill to Ban Unconsented Phone Call Recordings
On Aug. 18, Yoon Sang-Hyun, a member of the National Assembly, along with 11 fellow legislators of the People Power Party stirred up controversy by proposing a bill to criminalize the act of recording phone calls without the explicit consent of both parties. Current law states in Paragraph 1 of Article 3 of the Protection of Communications Secrets Act that “No person shall censor any mail, wiretap any telecommunications, provide communication con...
A World of Discrimination for Migrant Workers
A World of Discrimination for Migrant Workers
On Aug. 21, labor groups and migrant workers currently residing in Korea protested for the right to freely move their workplace, along with better working rights for foreign workers. Their main reasons for the protest were that they have been discriminated against for a lengthy period of time, and that the freedom that exists for native workers does not apply to them. Discrimination against migrant workers also appears in the current law. Accordi...
IRA and How It Affects Korean Companies
IRA and How It Affects Korean Companies
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world increased the money supply by subsidizing households and companies to prevent an economic slowdown. However, now we have a new economic crisis, inflation. The United States, which dominates the global economy, is no exception. To overcome the immediate crisis, Joe Biden, the president of the U.S., signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Aug. 16, 2022. The IRA aims to curb inflation by...