“Bangti”, Pohang Canal Festival, was held on Oct. 2-4 at the Pohang Harbor. Bangti, a big washbowl, is a word from Gyeongsang provinces’dialect. This festival was supported by Pohang MBC and everyone was welcome to participate. There were five special programs in Bangti: making, running, buying, seeing, and riding. Participants could make sustainable boats using waste resources of industry, agriculture, and fishing. The purpose of this program was to reuse resources and graft science technology onto artistic values in Pohang, where the three aforementioned fields co-exist. Participants also co
News | Reporter Choi Na-youn | 2014-10-15 07:48
The aesthetics of time sounds very attractive because everybody in this era considers time pressure very effective. The word “fast” is also spread everyday through TV, promoting its importance. So, people live faster and faster to keep up with the fast pace of modern society.However, there are some movements to support “slow” against the fast society. Those people do slow food, slow ware, slow city, etc. movements. For example, Officina Slowear, an Italian clothes company, manages all of the processes to make clothes. It takes a lot more time than ready-made products, but guarantees that custo
Feature | Reporter Choi Na-youn | 2014-09-25 20:09
In daily life, there are many things that make use of people’s emotions. Marketing is one representative that needs people’s sympathy to make benefit. For example, not only the display but also the pamphlet, placement of the guide sign, entrance or exit, elevator or escalator, window, wall, and counter are designed to make a profit.Paco Underhill, a founder of a market research and consulting company called Envirosell, did retail marketing research and used ethnomethodology to study people’s shopping habits and came up with two principles for shopping science. First, retail environment should
Feature | Reporter Choi Na-youn | 2014-09-03 19:01
These days, people cannot rest anywhere even at home. They always receive too many messages, calls, and Kakao Talk alerts. They cannot put down their phones, which remind them of people, tasks, studies, and other events. Sales people continue to worry about their task at work after getting off work and students have a burden about studying, homework, and team projects whenever they see Kakao Talk and other’s activity on Facebook, even during weekends. However, people cannot constantly worry without taking any rest. At least on the weekend, people have to postpone their curiosity about how thei
Opinion | Reporter Choi Na-youn | 2014-06-04 13:18