Last fall, my book, A college student’s science books dialogue, came out into the world. The release of the book that had plagued me terribly for a year was an emotional moment. As I was contacted by The Postech Times, I was excited to talk about my book in writing, not in words, for the first time. Ironically, I started to write the book in my junior year, when my major studies were most difficult. The classics introduced in my book are books that I admired ever since I was a freshman in POSTECH: Carl Sagan’s The Pale Blue Dot, Heisenberg’s Physics and Beyond, Bill Bryson’s A Short History of
Opinion | Cho Seung-yeun (LIFE 16) | 2020-09-03 14:58
On July 29, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (parent company of Google) went through a five-hour congressional grilling as lawmakers on the House’s top antitrust subcommittee confronted the executives for abusing their market dominance to neutralize potential competitors and even threaten consumers.Representative David Cicilline, the chairman of the antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, opened a congressional investigation of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, aiming to provide the basis for proposals on ho
Feature | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2020-09-03 14:48
The stock price of SK Biopharmaceuticals (SK Biopharm) is sharply rising. After being listed on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) on July 2, SK Biopharm’s stock price jumped more than 5-fold, from 49,000 KRW (July 2) to 269,500 KRW (July 7), in only five days. The stock price has maintained a high price as it evaluated 187,000 KRW on July 29. Even though SK Biopharm is expected to be celebrating such stock price increase, this victory is not good news for them. In fact, quite a lot of employees are considering quitting.SK Biopharm was founded in 2011, splitting from SK. Despite its
Culture | Reporter Han Sang-yun, Yoon Seok-sang | 2020-09-03 14:43
Moon Jae-in, the president of Korea, vowed to turn all unstable employment in the public sector into permanent employment within his term. Following his pledge, the Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) announced its plans to convert nearly 10,000 contract employees to permanent payroll on June 22. A total of 9,785 employees are to be affected, and, among them, 2,143 will be directly hired by IIAC, and the remaining will be hired by three different affiliated companies. However, the decision of turning 2,143 irregular employees to permanent employees directly hired by IIAC is facing
News | Reporter Ryu Nu-ri | 2020-07-14 18:46
Campus | times | 2020-07-14 18:30