On Sep. 9, Pohang Acceleration Laboratory X-ray Free Electron Laser (PAL-XFEL) completion ceremony was held in Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) while 240 guests including Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea, Choi Yanghee, Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Doh-Yeon Kim, President of POSTECH, atten-ded. Fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facility can radiate 100 quadrillion times brighter than the sun, which allows us to analyze micro structures and phenomena that were unable to observe before in nanometer, femtosecond scale. Also, fourth-generation synchrotron radiation
News | Reporter Kang Min-seok | 2016-10-12 17:10
On Sep. 30, Pohang’s Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (CCEI) and POSTECH Technology Business Incubator came together for Venture, Innovation, Challenge, Technology, Opportunity, Risk-taking, Youth/VC meeting and Investment Place's (VICTORY-VIP) opening ceremony at C5 building. Gang-Deok Lee, mayor of Pohang made the ceremonial speech. “We need more places like VICTORY-VIP. I hope the rising generations could look back to the people from the past generations who struggled against everything with almost reckless drive. And I hope they, too, make invaluable daring tries for tomorrow’s K
News | Reporter Park Geun-woo | 2016-10-12 17:08
On Oct. 5, the 18th typhoon on 2016, “Chaba” hit the Korean peninsula. The typhoon caused much damage to some region including Busan, Ulsan, Jeju Island, Gyeonsang region and so on. Also, POSTECH had some damage from the typhoon.In some buildings like dormitories and engineering building, waters leak from roof or window and some roads made people hard to walk because of much raining. Even from 11:00 a.m., traffic has been completely shut down in the area of POSTECH gym and the near the east gate, due to heavy raining. This shut down lasted for about two hours.Also, Hyoja-dong, which is village
News | Reporter Park Min-young | 2016-10-12 17:05
On Sep. 8, Kang Sung-mo, the school president of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) visited POSTECH to deliver a lecture in celebration of our school’s 30th anniversary. He delivered a lecture about the importance of having a happy life. The lecture was mostly about the president’s life, how he went to college, how he earned his Ph. D., how he became a researcher at Bell Lab, and how he went on to become the president of KAIST. However, he did not forget about his lecture’s topic, having a happy life, in between. He illustrated his point through the movie, “Chariots of
News | Reporter Jeong Yoon-han | 2016-09-28 22:36