The first International Symposium on Creative IT Engineering and Innovation was held to share ideas about creative ways to train the field’s elites. Although the newly created IT Innovation Laboratory (i-Lab) started this year, it was prepared during the presidency of the former president, Sunggi Baik. Moreover, he was appointed as the chair of the Symposium Organizing Committee. The Postech Times interviewed him to resolve curiosity about the symposium. Could you briefly explain about the pan-national project to train IT talents briefly and give your opinion about it?Korea quickly developed f

Pohang has long been a famous place of many fish lovers for mulhoe and gwamegi which can only be found in Pohang. The Postech Times visited a mulhoe restaurant with two international students, Du Hauchun and Li Ming of Harbin Institute of Technology to find out the real taste of the city, Pohang.One of the headiest sensory experiences in Pohang, a large quantity of vegetables and fruit, including shredded cucumber, chopped cabbage, and long slices of Asian pear, were included in the mulhoe that provided us the mixed tastes of all ingredients which bears the flavor of the cold sea water.Mulhoe,

Since the beginning of April, the Department of Mathematics has been hosting Professor Don Bernard Zagier, one of the four directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and a professor at the College de France. He finished high school at age 13 and completed his B.A. and M.A. at MIT in just three years. Zagier then received his Ph.D. at 20 and became a professor at age 24. He specializes in number theory, and he is also known for discovering an elementary proof of Fermat’s theorem on sums of two squares. He has given several lectures for a wide spectrum of audiences, from high school s

The sound of pencils scratching and a quiet stream of music leaking from earphones are the only sounds that break the silence in the studying hall of grey desks and cubicles just high enough to hide the faces of other people. The heavy, serious atmosphere of the studying hall sometimes overwhelms students seated in the Chungam Digital Library. Despite their resolute determination to study, many head back to their rooms after dozing for a few hours. Any Postechian has probably had a similar experience at least once. There is a lack of diversity for study spaces on campus. Some might say that if

Question: Have you ever attended classes at 11 o’clock? Most students would answer, “Of course. It is normal to take lectures at 11 A.M.” This answer is not strange, but typical. However, the question actually inquires about 11 P.M. Those who specialize in chemistry have a class that starts at 11 P.M. and finishes at 12 A.M. because of the conflicting lab times of organic chemistry and analytical chemistry. During a lab, the teaching assistant (TA) solves homework problems and gives quizzes. But lab times are not considered to be well conducted despite of the original purpose. Because lab time

Falling in love is possibly one of the main perks of being a student. Never again are you likely to find such a broad selection of potential mates all in one place, nor to receive full support from the professional specialists and non-professional specialists: your friends.On Mar. 3, a group of students hung a banner in front of Jigok Community Center advertising that a senior student is looking for a girlfriend. Celebrating his 8000th day of being single, they designed a banner for him and gave him the title “mabeopsa” (wizard in Korean) for not having a girlfriend for that long. It is not to

The picnic season finally came. With April there is relief from the cold on the Han peninsula. It is great to see flowers blooming, making people livelier; however, there is one uninvited guest that always comes around this time of the year: spring allergy. Caused by either yellow dust clouds or pollen, many suffer from spring allergies. In order to find out about its symptoms and precautions, The Postech Times visited the in-school health aid, Mi-jeong Seo in the infirmary, located on the second floor of the Student Union Building. The Causes ①Yellow dustThe origin of yellow

The TriggerThe beginning of the crisis was when PIA (The full-name is not known) - an independent, unauthorized student group formed to arouse issues surrounding human rights - posted the result of a survey on Dec. 20 regarding the school members’ opinions on homosexuality.The result of the survey contains several charts from the questions asked through the survey. The questions were generally asked questions such as “what do you think about homosexuality?” or “What do you think is the cause of homosexuality?”Also included was the pie chart to the question, “what is your sexual orientation?” S

For the last 25 years, POSTECH has grown rapidly. Finally, in return for the growth, POSTECH was ranked 28th in The Times World University Rankings in 2010. It’s a valuable fruition mainly from aggressive investments and results in research.Only a few steps remain to be completed in order for us to realize the dream of VISION 2020. However, the standard of POSTECH is not only determined by its academic achievement, but also its tradition and culture. In that sense, the number of steps looks far larger. POSTECH needs special alumnus, symbol, and events like what it has produced ? special output

Our founding chairman, and also the greatest among modern Koreans, Tae-Joon Park left a lot of heritages. Real evidences, including steel mill of POSCO, 14 schools in Pohang and Gwangyang, and POSTECH, which already grows as a world-class university, correspond to them. Moreover, there were two prominent philosophies which say “Serve the nation through steelmaking, and Serve the nation through education.” As a director in charge of the construction of POSTECH, only within a year and ten months did I finish establishing softwares, hardwares, and humanwares, and that’s why I couldn’t stop being

Alas, the founding chairman Mr. Tae-Joon Park, always eager to push POSTECH to become a world-class university, will never be back again. Such a steel magnate, who made miraculous industrial growth possible, passed away. He produced steel, the “Rice of industry,” and supplied it to all the industries in Korea. By doing so he helped gain freedom from poverty after the Korean War. When recruiting Ph.D. researchers for technological progress of POSCO was slow, Chung Am (the pen name of Park) decided to train scientists and engineers through establishing a university and invite Korean scholars abr

Dear founding chairman Tae-Joon ParkAfter participating in the unveiling performance for your statue, I was motivated to send you a letter and so I write this now. I did join the ceremonial luncheon as the vice president of POSTECH Alumni Association. While seeing the video about your life, I felt something touched my heart. I had a talk with several people about you Mr. Park, and they let me know that founding POSTECH and POSCO is the biggest achievement of yours. I totally agree with that. Also I believe it’s really hard to find a person with such remarkable achievements.Only twice did I per

I wrote this by recalling the precious ties with our university’s founder, late Tae-Joon Park.It was late August in 1985 when late Hogil Kim came to KAIST in Hong-reung, Seoul in order to persuade me to participate in his impressive dream to construct a world-class university specialized in science and technology. His logic was that we were all fully capable to construct the university led by great faculty from both domestic and foreign backgrounds with ten or so great scholars by amassing the excellent students with the preeminent financial resources of POSCO. In a little while, the four-part

As I kept my post at the Severance Hospital funeral hall, I was amazed by the founding chairman’s wide personal connections in economic, political, cultural, religious, and soccer areas. At the same time, however, I wished that the significance of POSTECH’s foundation would have received more attention. He knew the importance of quality human resources in today’s world of creativity and knowledge as well as in the steel industry, which fuels the overall industry. For this reason, I think the establishment of the university, despite difficulties, that fulfilled his gigantic dream has more signi

The foreign readers might not be familiar with Tae-Joon Park, who passed away on Dec. 13, other than the fact that he was the founder of POSTECH. For those who may be curious of the POSTECH founder’s life, The Postech Times has briefly written about the life of Tae-Joon Park from his birth to death.Early AgeTae-Joon Park was born in Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do in 1927. He moved to Japan when he was six and how he spent his early ages is not known. He entered Waseda University and studied mechanical engineering. After Korea’s independence in 1945, Park came back to South Korea.Return to South

POSTECH recently celebrated its 25th anniversary since its foundation. As many people already know, POSTECH has a special tie with POSCO. In fact, POSTECH could not exist today without the support from the recently deceased founding chairman Tae-Joon Park.A major steel tycoon in South Korean history, Park is also known as the education revolutionist, one of many nicknames he liked to call himself. He always treated education with the utmost importance and is known to have said, “the country is made by outstanding individuals, and outstanding individuals are made by education.”When he first cam

Tae-Joon Park, the founder of POSTECHwas famous as the founder of the iron and steel industry in Korea and led the industry to the top position of Global market. Therefore, he is often called“Steel King.” He holds status with the past president of Korea, Park Chung-hee and started the iron and steelbusiness under the support of the president. Though the business did not seem tobe a success at first, the factory was constructed in Pohang and developed quickly as one of Korea’s main industries. With the development of the industry, there are four more achievements of Park: Politics, Economics, S

One good thing about being a Postechian is you do not need to worry about leg exercises, unless you are too tired to go to class after the overnight lan party at the dorm. Here are fun facts about the 78 Stairs.The origin of the nameThere is a famous rumor concerning the meaning of the name. As the proverb goes, many believe that the origin of the name of the 78 Stairs comes from the Korean proverb ‘For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.’ Here is the fact. The 13 meters high 78 Stairs consists of seven staircases with 78 steps in total.The legendAccording to the legend of the

There was a POSTECH Orchestra concert on Dec 1, 2011 in celebration of POSTECH’s 25th anniversary. The Postech Times had an interview with Maestro Uihwan Chong. Maestro Chong took the position six years ago when he came to organize the POSTECH Orchestra with Professor Jung Ki Kim of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.How did you come to lead POSTECH Orchestra?This is a question I was asked five years ago. My wife, then, was a professor at POSTECH. Once I came to POSTECH to see one of the POSTECH’s culture programs with my wife. I somehow met Jung Ki Kim, who’s the head of POSTECH

Kicking off with the front-runner Samsung GALAXY S II LTE which launched in September, Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology is now widely available to many mobile devices. However, extensive use of this blazingly fast device often drains away the power from the phone making it a useless gadget. Many times, it so happens that the phones need to be charged immediately but with no charging point available nearby. To solve this problem, advanced technology has been used in some cellphone designs that make them capable to power themselves with solar energy.Photovolatics, which were once used almost