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

It is a true honor to be a new reporter of The Postech Times. There are other new reporters who have participated in making newspaper at high schools or who are exceptionally good at English. Unlike them, I am literally a newbie in the area of journalism. I have almost no experience related to journalism, and I am not that outstanding in English either. However, there are reasons why I applied for the recruitment, and goals I want to achieve as a reporter in The Postech Times.Since my childhood, I have considered journalist as a job that has a responsibility and power to acquire, reform, and r

When Steve Jobs died in October 2011, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) compared Apple to a fruit of a tree, the branches of the tree to the freedom to think and create, the trunk to the American legal system for free entrepreneurship and ownership, and the root to constitutional democracy. Some people believe America’s greatest innovation is the American Constitution. We look into the fundamental relations between China’s institutional innovations and economic development/growth and briefly prescribe the future direction of the Chinese economic policy. Nonetheless, we attempt to learn fundamental

I was exhilarated as I stepped down from Bus No. 105 at the East Gate of the haloed institution. Studying in a world class institute, in a country with a culture starkly different from that of India, interacting with people belonging to several continents, working in labs with cutting edge research technology, enjoying a new cuisine, attending lectures delivered by professors who are leaders in their field and a gazillion other thoughts raced through my mind. Walking towards Dorm 16, better known as DICE, I was skeptical about how these 4 months would work out. I was warmly greeted by my buddy

Recently, several events for the freshmen including orientation, general meeting for opening lecture, facing ceremony, and membership training have been going on. Since the events provide chances to meet new people, problems related to human relations have emerged through the Facebook site Bamboo Grove. I want to focus on the problems related to the personality, especially introspection.When I was in middle school, I was so introspective that I avoided people so I did not have any conversation with them. Talking with people makes me scared (except for my best friends). However, after few years

I am the new professor editor of The Postech Times from Spring 2016. This new position is meaningful for me because going back to the early 1990s, I myself was a student reporter of The Korea University Weekly for over two years. I was passionate about my duties and roles, which led me to leaving Korea and pursuing graduate degrees in communications in the U. S. When making the university newspapers about 20 years ago, we went to a typesetting shop every Friday and completed the final stages of production processes. I still remember that we often went to a gamja-tang (pork back-bone stew) rest

This article is attractive to me because I’m interested in VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augment Reality) technology. These technologies have potential and can be used in various fields. VR technology is often used in the game market. VR technology makes people feel intense pleasure. So many computer gamers wish that VR technology could be used more in games. The representative device is Oculus, which is introduced in more detail in this article. I want to have Oculus to feel extreme pleasure. I feel great even though I only dream of it. However, it seems like VR satisfying those populations wi

Nowadays, it is common to hear that diverse experiences are necessary to be creative, followed by traveling to new places. In new surroundings, people expect to be able to do absolutely different than they have done before and say it is not easy to belong to just one organization for a long time. This is also what I thought when I was a sophomore.I spent three years in POSTECH working for one organization, The Postech Times. When I was a sophomore, I wanted to challenge myself. I joined a new club to meet different people and change myself. In fact, I joined the club because of my roommate. I

Whenever I summarize my life as an undergraduate, I always use the term 'free' and 'diverse'. Rather than achieving a high GPA, I have tried to go outside and experience as many things as I can. Thanks to those so-called extra-curricular activities I've done so far, I'm here to write about what I've done in my past 4 years.Since I'm not a special person, I was clumsy at entering competitions. Until my sophomore year, I tried and failed repeatedly. Failing in those competitions could have depressed me, but I thought failure was natural, as numerous brilliant people were participating there with

Many undergraduate students have some experiences of participating in contests or competitions, and I also participated in many competitions and was awarded some prizes. However, when thinking of memorable and special experiences as I am graduating, the Korea Computer Simulation Competition (2014-2015) reminds me of the reason why I study industrial management engineering. It is because the competition was the most important experience to me as an engineer. In 2014, many safety accidents occurred such as collapse of resort in Gyungju and sinking of ferry Sewol. The whole nation was deeply sadd

I’m embarrassed to say it but I’d been very careless about reading news. I didn’t know the importance of reading it. Well, to be frank, I wasn’t interested in knowing nerve-wracking issues and tried to believe that they are not related to me. However, The Postech Times, piled next to the RC elevator all the time, brought me a positive gentle change. While waiting for the elevators to come, I found myself enjoying looking through The Postech Times. At first, I quickly had a glance at the photos just to find someone I know. However, as days went by I started to read it more carefully and more de