We tend to form stereotypes targeting certain social groups. For example, some people perceive Black as impoverished, aggressive, or uneducated, whereas Asian as hardworking, career-oriented, or intelligent. Surely, stereotypes reflect part of the truth in actual reality. However, their main problem is that they “generalize” individual members and “prescribe” their expected behaviors solely based on the members’ social groups. Where are these stereotypes from? There may be many different sources in our socialization process (e.g., books, schools, family, peers), but I would like to focus on a
Opinion | Jinhee Kim Professor, HSS | 2013-03-06 19:26
Why did you select Japan to study?Stud : In engineering field, America may lead the theoretical phase, but technical phase are definitely leaded by Japan. In addition, when students enroll in graduate course in Korea, they have to do underworks of the professor. However, generally in Japan, each laboratory are consisted of four to five people : one professor, few associate professors, one assistant, and a secretary. So secretary or assistant treats the underworks, and students can concentrate their whole mind upon study without any other disturbance. I heard that if someone wants to research,
Feature | Reporter Park Seo-kyung | 2013-03-06 19:15
The 2012 POSTECH Commencement Ceremony takes place at 11 A.M. on Feb. 15 in the POSTECH Gymnasium. Special guests such as President Yongmin Kim, Chairman of the Board Joon-yang Chung, and other dignified guests are invited to congratulate 702 graduates on this honorable day.The student procession starts at 10:40 A.M., and the main ceremony begins at 11 A.M., and will proceed in the following order: the pledge of allegiance, report on academic affairs, commencement address by the President, complimentary address by the chairman of the board, conferral of degrees, honors and awards, student addr
News | Reporter Park Tae-yoon | 2013-02-15 21:35
Like Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s, and Alz-heimer’s, the Huntington’s disease is a typical degenerative cranial nerve disorder that affects five to ten of every 10,000 people. Huntington’s disease has symptoms like chorea, psychiatric symptom, dementia, and is well known as a non-treatable disease. However, a treatment for this Huntington’s disease was developed by a research team at POSTECH. Using trehalose, a disaccharide that exists in nature, and independently developed technology about drug delivery vector, the research team of Professor Emeritus Sung-Kee Chung (CHEM) and team of Prof. Kyong
News | Reporter Park Seokyung | 2013-02-15 21:34