On Dec. 2, POSTECH held its 30th anniversary celebration in the gym of POSTECH. Since POSTECH held its first graduation in 1991, a total of 17,627 students have graduated from POSTECH. Many of them are active as global leaders, working as professors, CEOs of venture companies, corporate executives, and so on. Also, the research influence of POSTECH is evaluated as 6th in the world (2015 QS World University Ranking Citations per faculty).POSTECH started on Dec. 3, 1986 as the first research oriented university in Korea. In 1998, it was selected as Hong Kong Asia Week’s best science and technolo
News | Reporter Park Min-young | 2017-01-01 17:08
On Oct. 27, the second ‘Univer+City’ was held in POSTECH’s gym. Univer+City is compound that combines ‘university’ and ‘city.’ This emphasizes that the cooperation of industry, academy, and government contributes to local development and national growth. Universities that participated in this event were POSTECH, Univ. of Ulsan, Handong Global Univ., UNIST and Uiduk Univ. The participating members include Pohang City, Ulsan City, Pohang Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), Ulsan CCI, and Pohang Technopark. The first Univer+City was held on May 24 and pushed ahead with cooperation between Gye
News | Reporter Park Min-young | 2016-11-09 19:49
On Oct. 5, the 18th typhoon on 2016, “Chaba” hit the Korean peninsula. The typhoon caused much damage to some region including Busan, Ulsan, Jeju Island, Gyeonsang region and so on. Also, POSTECH had some damage from the typhoon.In some buildings like dormitories and engineering building, waters leak from roof or window and some roads made people hard to walk because of much raining. Even from 11:00 a.m., traffic has been completely shut down in the area of POSTECH gym and the near the east gate, due to heavy raining. This shut down lasted for about two hours.Also, Hyoja-dong, which is village
News | Reporter Park Min-young | 2016-10-12 17:05
On May 17, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced its a plan for abolishing the system for alternative military service until 2023. The reason for this announcement is to solve insufficient military service resources problem. The MND stated that the current number of men aged 20 is approximately 350,000, but will decrease to 250,000 by 2023. This could create a deficit of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers.According to its plan, the number of people assigned in skilled industrial personnel will be 6,000 in 2018, reduced to 3,000 in 2020 and removed completely in 2023. Also, the system for tec
News | Reporter Park Min-young | 2016-06-01 12:34