On Oct. 25, the 2nd POSTECH Cultural Content Contest in Science and Technology Award Ceremony, hosted by The Postech Times, took place. The purpose of this contest is to enhance Postechians’ creativity and imagination and to express ideas through various media. Until Sep. 13, undergraduate and graduate students were encouraged to submit their projects in the format of Science Fiction (SF), Photostory, and UCC. The SF topic was free, while the topics for Photostory and UCC were about POSTECH, Postechians, and Science and Society. A total of 16 projects were submitted, including nine photostorie

Jae-seok Lee, CEO of SimpleX Internet founded in 1998, gave a lecture for Poste- chians as an alumnus on Oct. 28. SimpleX Internet provides web hosting and server hosting service. He earned a Bachelor of physics in POSTECH in 1993. He handed down practical business theories He has accumulated during 14 years. This lecture was a part of POSTECH Technology based Entrepreneurship Program (POSTEP). He explained some essential parts in enterprise operation management, such as selecting business items according to the stage of social development, effective marketing strategies, and the importance of

POSTECH is constructing a new building called ‘C5’ to invigorate fusion research and cultivate globally outstanding, creative individuals. The name ‘C5’ stands for Collaboration Convergence Consilience Creativity Center. Those five words that start with “C” clearly demonstrate the purposes of building C5. With a total budget of 31.5 billion KRW, the size of this building will be 15,960 square meters per floor, and it will be a 7 story building (excluding the basement). POSTECH is expecting C5 to be completed by the end of next year. Research spaces from the fourth floor to the seventh floor wi

Prof. Cha (CE) and his research team developed the tech- nology that converts carbon dioxide into carbonic acid com- pound using bacteria, which has a carbonic anhydrase.In nature, carbon dioxide is captured and stored into carbonic acid compound through bio-mineralization, as clam make its shell. Existing technology had the limitation that it comes expensive and time-consuming to produce bacterial enzyme. The research team reorganized the gene of carbonic anhydrase. As a result, enzyme reacts from seven-fold to 27-fold more than previous one. This technology can be utilized in medical materia

Prof. Woonbong Hwang (ME) has successfully industr-ialized the manufac-turing technique of hydrophobic nano-surface structure by adopting “Lotus effect”, a phenomenon in which a water droplet slides down a lotus leaf, maintaining its shape due to numerous projections on the surface allowing the leaves to be hydrophobic in nature.This technique has always been a source of attraction since it can be integrated into a plethora of fields, but products man- ufactured from this technique are still very rare since it does not work well on 3D structures.In order to apply this technique to practical ma

Professor Moonhor Ree (CHEM) has received the Taikyue Ree Academic Award for the year 2013 on Oct. This award is provided by the Korean Chemical So- ciety (KCS) along with the Taikyue Ree Commemoration Foundation to scientists who make distinguished contributions to the chemistry industry. In the field of polymer chemistry and nanotechnology, Prof. Ree has been actively involved in the research of Synthesis of Functional and High Performance Polymers, and Structure, Morphology, and Surface/Interface of Polymers. Also, from 2007 until 2011, Prof. Ree was the Director of Pohang Accelerator Labor

POSTECH Grad-uate Institute of Ferrous Technology’s (GIFT) Professor Myoung-Gyu Lee was chosen as a winner of the “International Journal of Plasticity (IJP) Young Researcher Award.”IJP is a prestigious journal that has the highest influence value among the more than 200 academic journals in the field of mechanical engineering. This award is given to the researcher who makes the most significant contribution to academic development (based on an overall assessment consisting of an appraisal of papers, the number of citations, and domestic and foreign academic activity over five years). The winne

27th POSTECH Undergraduate Association gave students chocolates, vitamin capsules, beverages on Undergraduate Association’s day-the day that the group gets close to students to inform about the group and listen to students?opinions on Oct. 17 11 A.M.- 3:30 P.M. on the first floor of Students Union Building. It was prepared to support students taking midterm exam. Department of Communication hosted the event, prepared snacks for 450 people, and advertised through SNS and posters. This day many students gathered and ate almost all the available.Additionally, the Undergraduate Association prepare

Professor Dong Sung Kim (ME) was selected as the ‘2013 Fundamental Research Excellence 50’ by the Ministry of Science ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) and the Korean Student Aid Foundation (KOSAP) in the Gwacheon National Science Museum. MSIP and KOSAP bestowed 50 researchers on recertification about excellent research.The reason that his research was selected as one of Excellence 50 was that Prof. Kim developed the new cell container, which could control a differentiation of stem cell and improve the proliferation of it. This container is made of polystyrene, which is used to produce such as yo

POSTECH students exerted their influence in the fifth College (under)graduate Business Plan Contest, hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, and the NIPA. Four teams successfully advanced to the final match and three teams were awarded.Team I-Link, led by Park Kyudong (CiTE M.S.-Ph.D. integrated), presented their work on ‘Suggestion of new model for strengthening the competitiveness of contents of Korean wave’ and received the Second prize. Also, team GuruM, led by FINN LIM (CiTE 12), presented ‘Social Idea Incubating Platform’, and received the third prize of the contest. Ano

The beadwork exhibition was held on Oct. 29-31 in the first floor of Mueunjae Memorial Hall. POSTECH Female Student Association hosted this event and invited Hae-kyung Park, who is a beadwork artist. About 30 works in the possession of Park were introduced to Postechians to suggest various color and style. In exhibition, participants could thread beads and have commemorative photographing with model wearing beadwork. Especially, the association named ‘Sequoia’, which is composed of wives of professors, provided rice cake and tea during the period of exhibition. On Oct. 31, those who are intere

Oktoberfest of POSTECH was held in Student Union Bldg. on Oct. 11 hosted by DICE. Postechians could become intimate with foreign exchange students and promote their friendship drinking beer with sausage and pretzel. Oktoberfest is the world’s largest fair held annually in Munich, Germany. It is a 16-day festival running from late September to the first weekend in October with more than 6 million people from around the world attending the event every year.

Generally, people think science is difficult and boring. Most people do not know about scientific principles that dominate our lives or even have any interest in them; however, science is inseparable from us. That is why Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity (KOFAC) holds events like the Korea Science Creativity Festival periodically. Science and technology is not the exclusive property of a minority specialist group, but the field that the public can experience and enjoy altogether. Currently, KOFAC is playing a role as a good medium of connection between specialized an

The article “Enlarging the Advertisement Scale” in the last The Postech Times talked about how the Science War between POSTECH and KAIST is not appealing enough to be advertised more broadly, according to External Relations and Communications. The writer appeals to us to be the true masters of our own festival.First, please ask yourself a question, “Do you want to go to see the festival?” Most answer might be “Of course, I’d like to go because I’m a member of POSTECH. While it’s kind of boring, because the competitions are not so exciting, and the performance is similar, and …”From the answer,

Do you have your own mentor in your life? Everyone might have a different definition of mentor but, in this column, I want to give you my own definition on who a mentor is and how to find a great mentor in one’s life and to be a great mentee. Today, many people use the term ‘mentor’ in a number of situations, most of which indicate those teachers who have known them for a considerably long period in their lives or have given lessons outside the textbook.In order to know what a mentor and mentoring is, let’s first see where this word ‘mentor’ was originated. This story goes back to the Trojan W

On Oct. 25, The 2nd POSTECH Cultural Content Contest in Science and Technology, hosted by The Postech Times, finally came to an end with its award ceremony. Last year, when the first contest was held, a total of 12 teams submitted their works. Among 12 teams, 3 were international students. This year, the number of participants slightly increased to a total of 16 students. Among the 16 teams, there were 4 international students who participated. In general, an increase of interest for the Cultural Content Contest in Science and Technology can be examined. Compared to the majority of contests he

Everyone would agree that the competitive edge of a university comes from its graduates. In that sense, POSTECH is the most competitive because our alumnus are actively moving out at center of various fields actively. “If I had known I? be here at that time” (in Korean “지금 이 길을 그 때도 알았더라면”) is the book that POSTECH alumni made to give their experiences and lessons to students in natural science and engineering. The Postech Times interviewed three of the authors and recorded some of their advice and lessons in response to these following three questions.1. What do you want to say to students th

A room for Chemical Engineering (CE) undergraduates in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering Building was reopened on Sep. 16. Other departments also have their rooms but it is more meaningful because CE students made it from design to painting without any outside experts. Before they remodeled, it was filled with old computers, worn-out couches, and trash. Students seldom used the room. When they did, it was just to print something or to take a nap. Professor Lee Kun Hong (CE) planned to remodel the room for a space for students. He suggested that students make it themselves. Pr