Professor Jung, Chea Yun studied law at Korea University, the New York University School of Law, and is licensed to practice law in the State of New York. She has previously spent time in the Supreme Court Judicial Policy Research Institute and the Graduate School of Future Strategy at KAIST. She is currently a professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at POSTECH and offers law courses – such as Artificial Intelligence and Law and Introduction to Law – that are popular amongst Postechian cohorts. She specializes in legal philosophy, legal sociology, and legal anthropology whi

Editor’s note: The following is a fictional first person narrative of the oracle in the Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex. Where I landed was called Delphi by the locals. The temple of Apollo was built on Mount Parnassus, with great limestone cliffs surrounding its three sides. A perfect natural citadel. One could see a beautiful green valley stretched out in front of the temple. If one were to walk up the road, they would see buildings filled with treasuries donated by the wealthiest and strongest in the Greek world, which pilgrims can’t help but look in awe. I had a distaste for primitive civilizat

The winter break in the third year of high school is a good time to invest in hobbies. I fell in love with skiing and visited the Yongpyong ski resort more than 30 times. Skiing is a winter sport activity in which you come down from the top of the mountain while enjoying the view of the mountain range and the open sky. Skiing is attractive in that one can run at a speed that is difficult to experience in daily life and you can directly control the speed and posture. Feeling the air while skiing down at 70km/h is like thin ice crashing on your face which is cool and refreshing.The 2021/2022 ski

I am a professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering (MSE). It has been 10 years since I joined POSTECH in 2013.Our research team recently developed an ultra-thin wearable sensor patch that monitors various cardiovascular health conditions. Applying inkjet printing technology, we were able to reduce the cost and time of developing sensors. In-depth research on inked electronic materials and an elaborately optimized printing process allowed us to develop thin-film-transistor arrays near commercialization levels. Current wearable pulse wave sensors only measure signals at a sin

A few months ago, a senior from my class told me that MBTI (Myers Briggs type indicator) can be a good choice to lead the conversation when going for a dinner with seniors. MBTI is a statistics-based table that distinguishes characteristics into 16 categories. It could be a very nice ice-breaker in an awkward situation between people meeting for the first time. Likewise, many Koreans use MBTI to start a conversation or to make a consensus between people who have the same MBTI. This “MBTI Fever” has been the main social topic in Korea for several years, but there are certain drawbacks; some peo

It has already been more than two years since COVID-19 changed our lives. Following the implementation of several living with COVID-19 strategies, the Korean government lifted the outdoor mask mandate on May 2, at the time of writing this column. To me, it is one of the most symbolic measures to recover towards a normal life and move away from the pandemic. Following the Black Death, smallpox, and the 1918 flu pandemic, humanity is likely to fight off another battle against future pathogens. Like many infectious diseases in history, humanity will soon overcome COVID-19 and we will return to no

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering (DESE) at POSTECH. I joined the department in January 2020, before the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before I came to POSTECH, I was an assistant professor of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama (2017-2019) and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University (2015-2017). I was conferred MA and Ph.D. degrees (2012 and 2015, respectively) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. The title of my

In 2016, I was a transferred freshman at my high school and my first friend said that he was gay during lunch. He told me that he was gay in such a casual manner that it took me by surprise. I was fourteen, naïve, and had never met a gay person who openly discussed their sexuality before. My first memory of encountering gay people was when I was in elementary school. I was walking in a park late in the evening with my parents, and a gay couple was kissing passionately on a bench. My mom, a very devout Christian, quickly took me by my hand and made me look away. She looked more disappointed tha

Hi, I am Lee Wongi, a junior at POSTECH. My original dream was to become a chemist. I enjoyed chemistry because I was fascinated with the fact that I could construct novel materials utilizing various materials as building blocks. So, I naturally spent a lot of time around chemistry until middle school.My first real experience with computers was in high school. Before, the only times I had interacted with a computer was when I hung out with my friends after exams and played a game or two. Since I also used a 2G phone at the time, Tetris and Sudoku on my phone were the extent of my exposure to d

Hello, my name is Park Joong-woo. I am currently an undergraduate in the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering (IME) at POSTECH and serving as CEO of DeepLeHR Inc.DeepLeHR. IncDeepLeHR Inc. is a new start-up that has only been three months since its establishment last year on Nov. 10. It is a company founded by four undergraduates from POSTECH, and we are providing a service called “Gochodaejol.com (고초대졸닷컴).” Gochodaejol.com is a recruitment platform specialized in manufacturing/technical jobs. Until now, integrated recruitment platforms such as Saramin or Jobkorea occupied most

Burnout syndrome refers to the symptom in which a person feels extreme physical and mental fatigue while taking on a certain job and loses the enthusiasm and sense of accomplishment that comes from the job. On May 25, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified burnout syndrome as a recognized medical problem related to work in the 11th International Classification of Diseases. This means that burnout syndrome can occur very frequently for modern people.Burnout syndrome mainly affects people who set high goals and sprint within a short period of time. In addition, social factors such

Once upon a time, there lived a colossal dragon. It demanded that ten thousand humans be sacrificed to it every day, or it would decimate the population. The people resisted at first, trying every possible way to vanquish the beast, but its scales were too tough to penetrate its fiery breath too strong to endure. Hence, they resorted to pleasing the dragon, feeding as many humans as it desired. Over the eons, the dragon and its voracious demands became part of humanity. The king ordered the people to construct infrastructure to carry the people being shipped to the dragon’s lair. There were cl

I am Lee Jeong-rak, a cofounder of RC423, a rocket research group, and Perigee Aerospace, a projectile start-up. I currently research aerospace optimization and production processes at the Extreme Mechanics Laboratory (XML). The beginning of Perigee was a joint club created by students who were interested in rockets at various universities in South Korea. At Perigee, we are currently building a “satellite taxi” service that launches small satellites into the fixed orbit quickly. Perigee was recently selected as a preliminary unicorn company.Immediately after entering university, I wanted to st

We usually find ourselves unable to solve most problems on topics that we have just completed reading on from physics textbooks. Postechians might blame the textbook for its insufficient explanation as a cause for their inability to solve a problem. However, textbooks do not offer a compass to follow, and you must identify an issue prior to inadequate textbooks. Which direction are you heading towards? Nothing can help a ship that does not know where it is headed.What should we accomplish after learning physics? Paul Dirac proposed this intriguing motto: “I understand what an equation means if

The arguments of Mencius and Martha Nussbaum represent the view of shame. Mencius said, “It is natural for humans to feel ashamed when they do not follow the rules they must follow as humans.” From the perspective of Mencius, not taking shame on their defects was like a declaration to tolerate faults, which meant giving up humanity. On the other hand, Nussbaum regarded shame as an emotion that is too conscious of others and passively engaged in external value judgment. The shame that Nussbaum thinks is the feeling caused because humans cannot accept themselves as they are. According to Nussbau

Nice to meet you. I am Sei Kwang Hahn, Seokchun Chair Professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering (MSE) and CEO of the Biomedical Nanomaterials Lab (BNL). I obtained my B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST. As the youngest Ph.D., I joined the LG Chemical group in 1996. At the LG Chemical Research Institute, I carried out my research on biodegradable polymers including hyaluronate (HA) and the sustained release formulation of the human growth hormone (hGH), which was successfully commercialized in Korea under the t

During our lifetime, we often face unfamiliar, effort-demanding events. And in most cases, it is hard for us to deal with or conquer them. No matter how much you struggle and spend your time dealing with stress, a positive result does not always follow. Sometimes it might give you a dramatic failure, and you may have regrets. And sometimes, you may think you should not have even started to begin with. However, regardless of the result, those challenges can always turn into a tremendous opportunity: a trigger to change your life. That is to say, it is up to you to digest (or to interpret) such

Ever since I entered POSTECH, I have embraced life to make every season of my college years cherishable. Even taking this thought into account, last autumn was particularly special for me in many ways—I chose my major, became part of IME, and finally got in contact with my friends who finished their college entrance exams. Yet, out of all of these memorable events, the rarest and most remarkable experience was indeed being given the opportunity to participate in and present my research at the Autumn Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Korea (ESK). Since July, I have been working on a proje

What is the coldest place in the Universe? The first entry from my Google search tells me that it is the “Boomerang Nebula,” which is 5,000 light-years away and has a temperature of about one Kelvin. However, for me, as a researcher in the field of ultracold quantum gases, the coldest place in the Universe is not in outer-space but on Earth in our laboratories, where we use laser beams, ultraclean vacuum systems, and a host of other technologies to trap and cool atoms to nano-Kelvin temperatures.In this extreme temperature regime, our intuition of how Nature works dramatically breaks down. The

On the fifth floor of the renovated Tae-Joon Park Library, a space to study with music is provided, and the music played there gives pleasure to many Postechians who are tired of studying. Although there are many different genres of music being played in that place, it is difficult to listen to certain genres, especially rock music. Maybe it is natural that rock music, which is often loud enough to interrupt students’ concentration, is not played at the library. However, even soft rock, the relatively calm and quiet subgenre of rock music, is difficult to hear in the library too.The Tae-Joon P