A news article is like a box of hot delivered pizza. It’s crisp, hot, and delicious. Within one box, the pizza can be cut into pieces and be distributed to a number of different people. As a reporter, I hope to deliver up-to-date news to my fellow colleagues and more. Although I have no experience in writing journals, I hope to convey my portion of information with an impartial mind. Listening to those who are interviewed, they refer to themselves as victims whose opinions were not directed in the desired way. I proclaim to write straight to the fact, without distorting the given information.

I’ve recently retired. Over the course of my vocational and personal life, I’ve encountered numerous opportunities and also challenges. Life was sometimes up, and sometimes down. Opportunities in life raised me up to more than I could be. Challenges in life sometimes tried to pull me down more than I could bear. Looking back at the opportunities and challenges, the peaks and valleys, I now realize that throughout them all I’ve been guided and supported by invisible, but invaluable touches. They were touches coming from my close friends, leaders’ writings, my inner-self, my spiritual belief and

Every once in a while heated discussion takes place on PosB, an unofficial POSTECH BBS. Among the favorite discussion topics is smoking on campus, especially in the dormitory area. Regardless of how the discussion is sparked, the discussion takes a similar route every time. Naturally, non-smokers bring up the fact that smoking is illegal in school buildings both by the constitution and the POSTECH dormitory regulations. They also stress the fact that smoking is bad for health, and non-smokers have the right to be protected from second hand smoking. The smokers on the other hand, voice their op

Last January, many Westerners were panic stricken upon hearing the news that one’s lifelong zodiac sign could change due to the addition of a 13th sign, Ophiuchus.This was particularly deva- stating to those with a zodiac symbol tattoo. Each zodiac sign represents certain defining characteristics of personalities based upon a system created by ancient Babylonians in relation to constellations (i.e. correlating to the month and day when one was born). Why would someone get a strange, perhaps mythical, symbol tattooed permanently on his or her body? The answer reflects the common theme of any ta

The number one most common question I was asked before leaving the United States was “why Korea?” To put this question in context, it is important to know a little bit about how study abroad is treated in my country. In the US, students consider study abroad options in their second or third year of college and typical destinations include Europe and South America. Usually, students choose locations where they can practice their language skills and as my second language is Spanish, people were especially confused when I announced my choice of Korea over Spain or another Spanish-speaking country

Postechians, by nature and necessity, are readers, and English readers at that. Whatever your position here, you probably spend a good portion of your life working your way through textbooks, journal articles or even student assignments. English reading is a big part of our work lives, so we sometimes start to feel that reading is the same thing as working. I think, however, that a lot of us are also lovers of reading. Sure, we have to read some things, but we know the exquisite pleasure of escaping between the covers of a great read, too. The pure escapism of fantasy, romance or mystery novel

It’s been four months since the year 2012 began. About a half year has passed since the inauguration of the President Yongmin Kim, the 6th president of POSTECH. In eight months, it will be the 26th anniversary of our university which was founded on Dec. 3, 1986. Also, Apr. 1, was the 44th anniversary of POSCO, which played the role of originator of our school. This review of our history in this short column is because the 18th anniversary for the death of founding president, Mueunjae Dr. Hogil Kim is near. Apr. 30 is the day of memorial for the founding President Kim who played an important ro

In the 23rd century, the world population is expected to be saturated at about ~11 billion. The explosive growth of population even with the current life standard and industrial capacity to support the growth requires a steep increase rate of energy consumption. It is natural that the consumption rate of fossil fuels such as gas, oil, and coal will escalate with an aid of small portion of green energy. A generous prediction of the end of available fossil fuels would be around year ~2500. An immediate response would be “why do we care about the long term problem?”The problems that we are going

For some people, the mere thought of grammar conjures up the image of a dowdy schoolmarm droning on about prissy grammar rules as she raps the knuckles of the defiant or grammar-challenged with a battle-hardened ruler. In my childhood days, however, grammar was rather congenial. In elementary school we were taught the eight parts of speech, some general rules, and later, how to diagram sentences, a rather simplistic but fairly effective look at grammatical structures. And in graduate school, the old tree diagrams of the past transmogrified into unruly micro-branches that resembled fractal geom

Can anyone own science? If so, what form of ownership can it take? This short essay is a brief introduction to the ways in which we can think of science and the ownership of science with critical consciousness.It all starts with a chain of following questions. How does knowledge travel from the origin of its place, say a laboratory, to other places and acquire its universality? Why and how is it that the laws of Newton can be found anywhere around the globe? One may attribute universality of knowledge, more specifically scientific knowledge, to its intrinsic values associated with objectivity

The vast majority of POSTECH international students are understandably grateful to the former president Sunggi Baik since he initiated the ‘Bilingual Campus’plan in 2010, announcing that “The Bilingual Campus Declaration will commence with this matriculation ceremony, and English, in addition to Korean, will be adopted as an official language of POSTECH.” In fact, it was a promising start for POSTECH in light of its long-term strategy to become a real world-class university in 2020. However, what has been achieved so far has not satisfied foreign students, nor has it met their needs in the sch

The scene: a classic Bostonian setting on a warm fall afternoon, not unlike the recently beautiful days here in Pohang. On a park bench amidst trees reflecting the influence of autumn in Boston Commons, two men sit looking out over the pond. The older gentleman questions his young client, “You’ve never been out of Boston have you?” The man in his 20’s shakes his head, no. “So if I asked you about art, you could probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him, but I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You never actu

The Seoul Forum 2011 was held on Sep. 27~28, with a subtitle, “Science & Technology is Future: Creativity, Convergence, Communication.” I could feel the strong will to solve the current problems with science in the “Science & Technology is Future,” part of the subtitle . Then, what are the current problems which should be solved with science? Chaired Professor Jae-Chun Chae of the Dept. of Eco-science at Ewha Womans University described the problem as “homework.” He said “Korea has been considered as successful at solving the given problems. However, in order to proceed to a higher ground, it

Albert Einstein said ‘Galileo is the father of modern science,’ and I agree with him. Galileo introduced the method of modern science and used it to understand various natural phenomena. He planted seeds for analytical geometry, differential and integral calculus, Newton’s mechanics and Einstein’s theory of relativity, among others. He believed that nature is written in the language of mathematics.The society where Galileo was growing up was very authoritarian, and Aristotle’s philosophy was absolute. No one dared question Aristotle’s theory. One day Galileo was looking at the falling hailston

Have you ever heard ‘the Long March through National Land (Long March)’ which was opened every year in POSETCH? Hi, I’m Kim Jeong-woo who served as the leader of this year’s event. From its preparation process to my personal feelings, I will introduce the Long March from A to Z. Before writing, I want to express my appreciation to Suh-young who walked with us and gave me a wonderful chance to share our unforgettable experience.To begin with, the Long March involves walking 30 km foreight hours every day, cooking our own meals, sleeping in a tent, and more walking. One of the Long March’s featu

Mr. Tae-Joon Park the Founding Chairman, Mr. Joon-yang Chung Chairman of the Board, distinguished guests, faculty, staff and students of POSTECH,It is my great honor and privilege to be appointed as the 6th President of POSTECH. I would like to express my deep appreciation to the POSTECH Board of Trustees and the Chairman of the Board for their confidence and trust in me to lead POSTECH to the next level of excellence. POSTECH was founded only 25 years ago. Yet, due to the belief and tireless efforts of the Founding Chairman of the Board, Mr. Tae-Joon Park, the Founding President, Dr. Hogil Ki

Food in the cafeteria is exceptionally good and rich in nutrition but a vegetarian customer does not have many options. Given that rice is the main course in Korea, I honestly request [for] you to please provide some fried rice without any meat. Later in the day if there is still some rice left it can always be mixed with the rice containing meat. Picking out the meat from the meal is [a] very tedious and unmannerly job but mixing it together is extremely simple and mundane, I guess. Kapil Gangwar (MSE, Ph.D candidate)Not only for showing off with some figural criteria in statistics, but for d

Do you know the atomic number of gold? Maybe an answer pops up in your mind but you are not sure. You memorized it long ago but because of stress, lack of sleep, or the alcohol from last night, your memory is not working properly. You know that the right answer is definitely at some place in your brain, but you are having a hard time locating it. Your connection to that information in your brain is neither fast nor reliable. Fortunately, you have a much faster and more reliable connection to another place where the information is stored. Yes, it is the internet. Instead of continuing a fruitle

It was a really gloomy and humid summer with frequent rainfall. Many people, perhaps more than I, have been looking forward to the coming of fall. Even though it is far from what we have expected, this fall there are a lot of events from its start, especially for The Postech Times. We welcome the new publisher, also the new president, President Yongmin Kim. In addition, two more happy occasions are to come.After the former Editor-in-chief Kim Eun-ji, I was appointed as The Postech Times? third Editor-in-chief last July. Only I can be seen in the commemorative photograph taken two years ago. Be

Globalization has become a catchword to celebrate every aspect of the modern world. In the omnipresent societal atmosphere where global literacy is indispensably valued, students are pushed to add a global specs onto their resumes, with impressive TOEFL scores being the most sought after.Reflecting on the concept of globalization, I have come to think in a threefold way. First is the target of the globalization effort. Globalization is only truly achieved when the subject human beings are globalized. When the members of a community are globalized, there is no need to dress up the outside with