On Oct. 25, President Park acknowledged that she had received advice on some of her speeches from her old friend who does not hold any official position. The advisor, Choi Soon-sil, a daughter of a cult leader, has been accused of interfering in almost all government affairs. She has received heavy coverage in the mass media the last few days, and many other corruptions associated with her have come into the open. As a citizen of this country, I felt anger at the current situation, but shame at the same time because I have not concerned myself with many political problems. I think my political

This column should be the last column I write. It has been two years since I first entered The Postech Times. Every writing class in POSTECH, I have taken finishes with reflective writing. This column will be my reflective writing. Before I started writing this column, I collected all the articles, mails, and photos I have written. My first article was ‘ New Reporter’s Resolution’ in The Postech Times No.81. Every reporter who enters The Postech Times writes this column. I read the article again, and it gave me a special feeling. I wrote that I wanted to become a Chief Editor with incessant ef

South Korea’s Copyright Act (established Jun. 28, 1957) followed the tracks of Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (established Sep. 9, 1886) that protected the literary and artistic creative works. It also approved for both authorship rights and intellectual property like Copyright Act made in France. In the early days, the prominent feature of Copyright Act was to impose the duty to return the present enrichment with the sole intention of protecting the infringers with good will and no faults. (Art. 66 of Copyright Act; Para. 432 of the legislations) On Dec. 31

When I have free time such as between classes or before I go to sleep, I usually go on Facebook, Twitter, or read some news on internet. I have fun with these contents, but sometimes I become embarrassed when I see some netizens fighting with each other, or writing hate message, and get hurt. For a long time, I thought that they are wrong and offensive that our society needs to punish them, but, after reading Nonviolent Communication (NVC), I think we need to talk with them and be empathetic.Many of us are unfamiliar with empathy because we were grown in the environment following and judged by

On June, this year, I joined POSTECH-KAIST Science War preparatory committee. I was the leader of the Supporters team which worked for supporters for POSTECH-KAIST Science War. This was the first time I worked for Science War, however; I was confident for this work as a team leader because I had some leading experiences in other groups like Gae-Geun-Sung, which is bicycle club in POSTECH. Meanwhile, I led an E-sports team of preparatory committee for Sunrise Festival in the last semester. That was another reason for being confident in leading a team in preparatory committee of POSTECH. Support

The Barclays’ prosperity map gives a composite index score for each region in UK. Its 2016 report shows that no region is less prosperous than a year ago and all regions surpassed London in terms of GDP increase. Yet on June 23rd, a majority of Britons voted to leave the European Union in a referendum dubbed as “Brexit.” In a nutshell, it was a non-binding referendum borne out of a miscalculated electioneering gone awry.Early in 2010, the Conservative Party succeeded in winning the largest number of seats but was forced to form a collation government with the Liberal Democrats (LD). In the 201

Yet, I am waiting for Cell Broadcasting Service (CBS). Current time is 11:50 p.m. Three hours have passed since the earthquake with magnitude of 4.5 occurred. We were shivering in anxiety right after the earthquake. One week has passed since the earthquake with magnitude of 5.8, which is the greatest magnitude over all time, broke in Korea. During this week, professionals detected almost 400 aftershocks. This is one of the most unpredictable and long-lasting disasters that have ever happened in South Korea. What damages did we have? How did we cope with them?First of all, damages in POSTECH we

A Korean drama ‘Reply 1988’ which had been broadcasted on television in 2015 is recollected as one of the most popular Korean dramas in the history, recording a viewing rate of 19.5 %. One very reason for its popularity was the fact that it drew a nostalgic mood among viewers to let them miss the good old past. Then, why were the viewers inclined to miss the 1980s, the symbolic period of poverty?It is true that our life has become better off in terms of materials. Most prominently, from 1988 to 2015, the GDP of Korea increased from USD 4,692 to 27,7663, almost by seven times. The average month

Claiming ‘this is not an advertisement’ ironically induces significant advertisement effects, and this is the path that advertisements tread. While customers are getting better at avoiding advertisements which ‘seem like advertisements’, companies still have no choice but ‘advertise’. The reason being, the connected world has arrived, but that world still has originally been molded by Capitalism. The change starts from the fact that individuals can possess media. ‘Crazy Friday on colleagues’ was in fact a more fascinating subject than ‘Morning Dramas on TV’, but the former lacked the method of

Major change in this year in POSTECH was that the period of summer vacation has been increased. Main reason is SES (Summer Experience in Society) program. Until now, five times of vacations had been given to me. And I am sure that this vacation was the best one ever.SES was a valuable experience for me. I work at BME, abbreviation for Biomedical engineering, laboratory in Asan Medical Center, in Seoul. (BME studies the fusion of medicine and engineering. Typical example is a surgery robot.) Actually, I had no experience for utilizing my knowledge. It is ironic that I study hard to stack knowle

People say traveling widens one’s view about his/her life. I have traveled several times, and every time I ended the journeys, I thought “Is there anything I feel I have grown up?” Unfortunately, the answer was always “No”. However, through the journeys going to Russia, my view about journeys is changed. I have traveled three times to Russian which is not a favored country Koreans want to go. Surprisingly, I participated in a festival that participants are only Russians except for me and my friend. From the trip, I could conclude that what travel gives to us is understanding on myself, and dis

On May. 16, Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced they will abolish the Technical Research Personnel (TRP) and Skilled Industrial Personnel through a Maeil Economy newpaper article. According to MND’s announcement, the number of selected people gradually decreases from 2018 and completely disappears until 2023. In particular, military serve replaced with the Ph.D.’s course is to be abolished from 2019. President Doh-Yeon Kim said “Graduate course is the flower of scientific research, but this treatment is like detaching a bud and attaching the bud again”, and many people from various fi

In POSTECH, some professors changed the method of lecture to flipped learning after the president of POSTECH recommended this new type of learning. Flipped learning is the method of lecture that a professor offers online lectures and students study them in advance of offline class. In the offline lecture, students discuss the online lectures’ contents or solve problems of the contents. As far as I heard, however, many Postechians do not discuss contents and also do not ask questions from the flipped learning lectures. I think that the reason for this situation is many students are accustomed t

I enjoy travelling around. For me, travel is one of the few things that I can definitely say attracts me. At the end of every semester, I sit in front of a table and start to design the upcoming vacation’s trip. I do not remember the exact time when I started treating the travel as part of my life, but I guess it was affected by my family. My family used to take short trips every weekend. We called it “Driving,” since we drove to various destinations. I learned a lot of things through these trips. Although I lived in Seoul, I was able to feel and experience many things, especially the nature o

What is user experience?You may not have ever heard of user experience, UX, because it is a relatively new concept and difficult for non-designers to understand. Whenever I get a chance to talk to people who are new to UX, I do my best to explain what it is and why it is so important, as a passionate advocate. The most frequent feedback I get, though, is that it is too hard to figure out exactly what it is, even if everyone agrees that it seems quite important. That’s why I kept inventing a better metaphor to explain what UX is, and I started using a ‘friendship’ metaphor recently.When two peo

We are constantly exposed to a culture of negativity. Within my vicinity, I have overheard several statements of negativity. For example, I’m such a failure. Why is this so hard to learn? I wanna give up. What am I doing with my life? I’m hopeless. I propose four ways by which influence is delivered: 1) through the impressions given by everyday actions and behaviors (even without any interaction), 2) through greetings and superficial conversation (saying hello or having small conversations), 3) through communication where an emotional connection is made (talking about passions or obstacles), 4

Postechians often meet only similar kinds of people. Unlike other universities, POSTECH has no university near it, so students lack opportunities to meet people who major in other subjects like humanities. POSTECH aims to make students become global leaders who can communicate with various kind of people. In this sense, meeting various kinds of people is very important to Postechians.During university life, Postechians spend most of their time taking classes, doing assignments, and participating in club activities with other Postechians. Since they meet people who study similar subjects in sim

I am writing this column on The Postech Times, and it has not even been from being matriculated a freshman! While the work itself is somewhat overwhelming, it is the most gratifying and lively times of my first year at POSTECH so far. On this note I would like to thank all of you at The Postech Times for granting me, a very unexperienced and clumsy writer, and such a cherishable chance to actually. At POSTECH! The one thing that made me land here at The Postech Times? I believe that is all to the spirit that is filling all around the campus. You can code if you want, you may even sit in on any

I am new reporter of The Postech Times! This article may be the first writing of mine as a new reporter. This fact makes my mind flutter. And I think this writing can help me when I lose my original intention.I applied here to learn and discuss how to write good articles. Yet, I am not good at writing. I will ask plenty of questions to senior reporters, and my articles will be proofread many times. Then, I will modify them and write articles again. By this process, both my English skills and writing skills will be improved. I am not familiar with professional terms like copy-edit, revision, an

I have heard a lot about The Postech Times before I applied for it. One of the things I have heard is that the job requires a lot of time and this is one of the biggest reasons why I carefully considered whether to apply or not. I am looking forward to studying at graduate school, so I put my biggest value in getting good grades. Having to put a lot of effort into extra-curricular activities can end up affecting my grade, but I believe there is a lot for me to learn by doing this job. Also, since I have been granted to “work” for this school, I am happily willing to start my job as a junior re