On July 29, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (parent company of Google) went through a five-hour congressional grilling as lawmakers on the House’s top antitrust subcommittee confronted the executives for abusing their market dominance to neutralize potential competitors and even threaten consumers.Representative David Cicilline, the chairman of the antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, opened a congressional investigation of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, aiming to provide the basis for proposals on ho
Feature | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2020-09-03 14:48
Moon Jae-in, the president of Korea, vowed to turn all unstable employment in the public sector into permanent employment within his term. Following his pledge, the Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) announced its plans to convert nearly 10,000 contract employees to permanent payroll on June 22. A total of 9,785 employees are to be affected, and, among them, 2,143 will be directly hired by IIAC, and the remaining will be hired by three different affiliated companies. However, the decision of turning 2,143 irregular employees to permanent employees directly hired by IIAC is facing
News | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2020-07-14 18:46
On Jan. 3, 2020, the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Gen Qasem Soleimani, was killed by a U.S. drone attack in Iraq. The tension in the Middle East escalated dramatically and the dispute between the U.S. and Iran is unlikely to end easily.A Brief Recent History between the U.S. and IranIn 2015, Iran signed a nuclear agreement called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 (the US, UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany). Under the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors from the In
Feature | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2020-02-13 19:08
On Nov. 9, the third STadium was held at POSTECH. STadium is a friendly competition where students from POSTECH and other institutions of science and technology (DGIST, GIST, KAIST, and UNIST) compete and interact with each other through academic and athletic games. The event consists of a total of six sports games (soccer, baseball, table tennis, badminton, basketball, and E-sports), an academic festival (ALL:moST), busking booths, and celebratory performances. STadium is the first sports and cultural exchange event involving all five science and technology colleges.This year, an academic fes
Headlines | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2019-12-05 12:47
In 2016, POSTECH announced its orientation as a value-creating university, and on Feb. 26 2019, to establish an institute that directly contributes to regional development. The ground-breaking ceremony of the Bio Open Innovation Center (BIOC) was held. More than 200 people, including President Kim Doh-Yeon, the Vice Governor for Economic Planning of Gyeongsangbuk-do, the Mayor of Pohang, a local legislator (Park Myung-jae), Chairman of Genexine, POSCO officials, and representatives of the bio-enterprise, attended the ground-breaking ceremony of the BOIC, an industrial-educational innovative pl
News | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2019-03-29 16:13