As effective methods of education have been emerging, integrated education across areas of study, called horizontal integrated education (HIE), is becoming a common concept to people. HIE may be familiar to POSTECH students, since POSTECH encourages students to learn humanities, arts and other subjects besides one’s major, to help students develop broad knowledge. However nowadays, along with HIE, a new concept called vertical integrated education (VIE) is being raised. Though concept of VIE is unfamiliar to Koreans, it is a well-known method in many western countries. As HIE is defined as int

As effective methods of education have been emerging, integrated education across areas of study, called horizontal integrated education (HIE), is becoming a common concept to people. HIE may be familiar to POSTECH students, since POSTECH encourages students to learn humanities, arts and other subjects besides one’s major, to help students develop broad knowledge. However nowadays, along with HIE, a new concept called vertical integrated education (VIE) is being raised. Though concept of VIE is unfamiliar to Koreans, it is a well-known method in many western countries. As HIE is defined as int

Science and Technology has enriched all public lives. Most people feel wonder when they contact science. It is obvious that technological progress is making people’s lives more convenient, but science and technology shouldn’t be considered sacred. As science often has greatly negative effects on society, science ought to be criticized. This idea is related to the field of science, technology and society (STS).

While 68% of POSTECH undergraduates think they will go to graduate school, slightly over half (38%) of the students in Life Science major have continued their career path in research during the last five years. The other half of those students find themselves in medical, dentistry or pharmaceutical schools.It is not a new trend that talented science and engineering major students give up going to graduate schools and enroll in medical or dental schools, instead. Several years ago, a POSTECH student who graduated with honors made headlines by transferring to a medical school.“About half of my c

The 11th KAIST-POSTECH Science War was held from Sep. 14-15 in POSTECH. Since 2002, POSTECH and KAIST have celebrated this festival, known as the ?cience War,” every year for mutual interaction. Science War is composed of athletic competition, e-sports, and scientific competition. As the two universities specialize in natural sciences and engineering, those who know Science War expect to have a battle of wits. What people expect is not entirely wrong. Hacking competition, science quiz competition, and artificial intelligence programming are held to satisfy expectations. However, these competit

The 11th KAIST-POSTECH Science War was held in POSTECH campus during Sep. 14-15. Although remarkable efforts of players and staffs were fully shown, whole aspects of the progress in the Science War seemed cold. In general, the number of spectators and cheering were minimal.Aloof attitude of POSTECH students in each event has been an issue for a long time, including not only festivals on campus but also external events like the Science War. To solve this problem, the Science War Preparatory Committee has provided many remembrance and cheering tools, and even held galore prize lottery in the eve

The reason to communicate The Science War has been opened to encourage interaction between POSTECH and KAIST. KAIST is a public university which was constructed in 1971. It is located in Daejeon and about 3,800 undergraduate students are currently enrolled there. On the other hand, POSTECH is a private university which was built in 1986, much more recently than KAIST. Moreover, it is in Pohang and about 1600 undergraduates attend the school. While KAIST and POSTECH differ in several other aspects, they are similar in terms of two important points: Both are considered as universities which are

All family members farmed all day long, but they earn just two dollars for that day. As no waterworks have been done in their village, children fetch water from a stream ten kilometers away from home. There is no part of their body that is left unscathed, but they have never seen a hospital before. This family is not a special example, but a rather common one. According to the World Bank, about three billion people around the world are living on barely two dollars a day. In addition, UNICEF emphasized that 400 million children have been drinking contaminated water and 270 million children do n

What is appropriate technology and why is it needed?One man, whose expertise is in environment and carbon emission, developed very efficient and eco-friendly linear compressor, which is only used in very expensive refrigerator, and agonized how to use this in good way for poor people using least efficient refrigerator. So, he used carbon tax. If carbon emission is decreased, government pays the emission difference as compensation. With support from environmental organization, he added high-end technology, and gave it to the poor people. High-tech is given to destitute poor. How delightful thin

Why is Malawi the hottest place for appropriate techn-ology? Good Neighbors is an international humanitarian and development NGO that is currently developing ten appropriate technology projects in five countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In Malawi, Good Neighbors supports four appropriate technology projects including mushroom farming, photovoltaic multi-charger, cotton sanitary pad, and cornstalk charcoal. Especially, Malawi branch is a good business model which shows the effects of boosting incomes based on a local branch. In Malawi, which is among the world’s least-developed count

It has only been a few months since I have started working for The Postech Times. Therefore I still have a long way to go. I am grateful that The Postech Times was created, and that I am given a position to report news related to our school to various audiences. In order to keep up with the standards of the The Postech Times, I have participated in the newspaper camp this summer and learned various skills required for reporting news. To exceed the standards, I promise to maintain self-discipline and strive for a new goal for each publication. In time, I hope to reach more and more readers of T

My respectful mentor said, “Keep a cool head, see life through a warm heart”. Reporter has a role not only of pinpointing trouble between society and individuals with sympathy, but also of analyzing dispassionately. So I’m ashamed that my former activity as a reporter has been too passive, inactive, and reluctant. From now on, recognizing the role of a newspaper as the most direct and traditional method to communicate with public, I’ll deliver fair, unbiased fact, and not be lazy about gathering information. Though the university may seem like a very tiny place, issues hiding here aren’t diffe

As a reporter of The Postech Times, I am glad to celebrate its third anniversary of publication. When I covered news and wrote articles, I always had our readers in mind. I have agonized over what the reader would want to read and have tried to convey useful information through the articles. In my opinion, The Postech Times needs to prepare a long-term project that many readers look forward to the next issue. Furthermore, The Postech Times needs to increase the number of papers printed and to become more independent.

Firstly, I want to congratulate The Postech Times on its third anniversary. Until now, we endeavored to provide recent information about POSTECH, communicate with foreign students and inform people outside of POSTECH about the news of our university. However, despite our will, we have not sufficiently listened to Postechians’ thinking, leading people toward disinterest in the school newspaper. Accordingly, we will resolve the problem by communicating with Postehcians and covering interesting topics in the newspapers. Moreover, I would like to ask the readers of The Postech Times and even nonre

The publication date for this issue, which is Sep. 5, is the 3rd anniversary of The Postech Times. In 43 issues, many news and stories have been featured. Especially for this issue, many people have kindly sent us words of encouragement and advice in light of the occasion. Five short writings on the left are thoughts and resolutions of our reporters; one on the center of page 7 is from one of our regular readers; two on the bottom center are messages from the previous editors-in-chief. The article on the far right includes an outline of how The Postech Times has evolved in the past three years

It is a pleasure to congratulate The Postech Times on its third anniversary. At the early stage of its foundation, The Postech Times was not sufficiently trained nor was it experienced. But it has become one of the major communicative channels for the POSTECH community in a short time with the support of the publisher, professor editor and staffs, and the committed work by the student reporters. I would like to share my deepest thanks especially to the readers, who have had interest to give encouragement and advice to the POSTECH newspaper. In three years, The Postech Times has improved and ha

On behalf of all readers, I heartily congratulate the English-language section of “The Postech Times” on reaching the third year anniversary. I’d like to give a warm round of applause to reporters, professors and university staff who made considerable efforts establishing the base of the English newspaper.Getting down to writing this message, an anecdote from when I was the editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper came across my mind. That was, discarding all printed newspapers! Some contents in the newspaper were written in wrong way due to the guidance teacher’s indifference. Securing the

Three years ago, I was merely a doubtful participant who observed how a team was formed and how a newspaper was made from scratch by a handful of students. Later, I had the honor of becoming the second editor-in-chief of that team. Since I owe a considerable portion of my university life memories to The Postech Times, an opportunity to celebrate its third anniversary on paper was hard to pass by. I am not only proud that such a team survived without many hiccups, but also thankful for the consistent effort that the members have put into the paper.Some of my favorite times in the newspaper offi

As stated on its homepage, The Postech Times was founded in 1988. As the university was moving towards equipping itself with a more globalized scope, the English online section was established in 2009, followed by the printed newspaper beginning in the second semester of the same year. A total of 14 issues are made every year, in the interval of every third week mostly. It consists of 20 pages with five in English, and 11,000 copies printed for each issue. Contrary to popular misunderstanding, the English version is not a translated Korean version; our reporters plan and cover the news indepen

Marine-fouling invertebrates(e.g., mussel, barnacle, sandcastle worm, hydroid, and sea star) form a strong attachment to the marine substratum against mechanical stresses arising from the tide, buoyancy, and drag using their special physical and chemical underwater adhesives. There are many insightful lessons to learn from these organisms, and indeed, underwater adhesives from these marine organisms have been investigated as a source of potential underwater adhesives because of their fascinating properties. These properties include strong adhesion to various material substrates, water displace