From Sept. 23 to 24, the KAIST-POSTECH Science War (KPSW) was held on the POSTECH campus. After two consecutive years of cyber POSTECH-KAIST Science Wars (PKSW), this year’s KPSW was finally held offline at POSTECH campus. Blessed with great weather over the two-day event, this year’s KPSW was successfully concluded. Offline events like the festive booths were cancelled last year due to COVID-19 cases. This year, many social clubs had booths in front of the gym, like Guerbois, an art club which held face-painting booths. This year’s KPSW was held under the motto ‘POST’, symbolizing that this y

The 2022 KAIST-POSTECH Science War (KPSW) was held from Sept. 23 to Sept. 24. Since it was the long-waited offline KPSW after two years of the cyber KPSW due to COVID-19, the KPSW arrangements committee worked hard for the preparation, and students were excited to join the on-campus KPSW. Since the 2019 PKSW was held on the KAIST campus, in rotation, the 2022 KPSW was held on the POSTECH campus, and teams and supporters were invited from KAIST.To celebrate the KPSW, the eve festival was held in the POSTECH Sports Hall on Sept. 22. Before the main events of the eve festival started, the KPSW ar

This year, farmers suffered from heat waves under severe drought in South Korea. During the Joseon Dynasty, the agriculture industry was centered on rice farming, which made society more vulnerable to droughts or floods. Thus, our ancestors made great efforts to predict the weather in order to minimize agricultural losses.Professor Jonghun Kam and Dr. Park Chang-Kyun in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering developed a “self-calibrating Effective Drought Index (scEDI)” and compared and analyzed precipitation records for about 250 years from the Joseon Dynasty to the modern er

There is now a way to strategically treat cancer because of the usage of not only the microenvironment of cancer, but also an in-vitro cancer model that simulates blood and lymphatic vessels, the main metastatic pathways. In the future, personalized cancer treatments will be possible by engineering a cancer model with cells from patients.Professor Cho Dong-woo of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cho Won-woo and Ahn Min-jun of the integrated course, and Prof. Kim Byung-soo of the Department of Biomedical Convergence Engineering of Pusan National University produced a metastatic melanom

Both the inflation rate and the consumer price index (CPI) are maintaining high rates. Deputy Prime Minister Choo Kyung-ho maintained his previous forecast that the inflation rate would peak around October. According to Statistics Korea, the CPI was recorded at 6.0% in June, 6.3% in July, and 5.7% in August. This is the highest rate in 23 years. What is more serious is that the inflation is centering on items with high public sensitivity, such as agricultural and fishery products. As a result, the CPI for restaurant purchases in July recorded the highest rate in 30 years. To make matters worse

Hinnamnor is the 11th typhoon of this year that has cleared its way through Jeju Island and Gyeongsang Province during the early morning of Sept. 6, causing devastation and irreparable scars to millions of lives. Named after a national reserve in Laos, the Category-5 equivalent super typhoon Hinnamnor landed on the coast of Geoje at 4:50 A.M., headed North East at 50km/h, and exited through the sea of Ulsan at 7:30 A.M. It is yet the strongest typhoon of this year and has incurred 12 deaths, ruined 3,800ha of agricultural goods, and submerged over 10,000 cars in Korea.Pohang was one of the mos

POSTECH has decided to offer the class of 2024 (those who entered POSTECH in 2020) a chance to participate in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023. They plan to dispatch students in the class of 2024 from Jan. 3 to Jan. 8, 2023, to Las Vegas, during which the CES 2023 is scheduled to take place (from Jan. 5-8, 2023, in Las Vegas). The CES is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and takes place at the beginning of each year at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the United States. At the event, new technologies and recent trends in the consumer electron

APGC-Lab is a POSTECH student organization that spreads entrepreneurial culture and organizes startup events that guide Postechians to start their businesses. For those newly aspiring entrepreneurs, APGC-Lab hosts idea-thons, seminars, and talks to provide preliminary knowledge about starting a business and creating a viable business model. In addition, it partners with startup investors from Naver D2SF, Kakao Ventures, Mashup Angels, and POSTECH Holdings to provide students with opportunities to meet and discuss problems with experts in the field.Street Startup Fighter (SSF) is a competition-

What motivated you to become chief of the POSTECH-KAIST Science War advisory committee?I have experienced a lot of advisory committees since my freshman year, and while doing so, I felt a tremendous amount of pleasure and accomplishment in planning events like this. When I was a leader of the camera team of PKSW advisory committee last year, it was hard initially because the chief was selected late and the committee was also built late. Considering this, when I decided to join here, I applied for the chief’s position. I resolved to lead the committee well by directly serving as a chief.What wo

Greetings, I am Gil-Ho Lee from the Department of Physics. Our Quantum Nano-electronics Lab is researching quantum nano-devices. I assume you have heard about quantum mechanics. Although quantum mechanics has been occasionally used as a synonym for an "unknown phenomenon" in science fiction movies, there have recently been more reports on "real quantum mechanics" in the media. It seems to be a time when quantum mechanics, which was traditionally an area of physics, is becoming more widely known since its breadth is widely expanding and connecting with the field of engineering. Our group makes

When I said that I will take a break during the 2022 Spring Semester, my friends asked, “What will you do during the six-month-long break?” Though I considered this break when I was a sophomore, I made the final decision rapidly because of my surgery in February. I planned to work in a company through an internship program, learn some techniques related to computer languages, as well as learn some VR technology along with my one-month rest after the surgery. Many people told me to take a rest since I was exhausted, having had a busy time with lots of work from several clubs, projects, and a lo

It had been five years since I had set foot on foreign soil. My high school life was full of dreams of freely traveling abroad and experiencing the various exotic cultures around the world. Yet, Covid-19 remained triumphant even after two years of pandemic madness. Hence, I was jubilant when travel regulations were slowly lifted, opening a slight window of opportunity for overseas travel. My original plan was to go to Osaka, Japan, where a friend of mine was living. However, the regulations imposed by the Japanese government banned free travel and only allowed package tours for large groups.On

On Aug. 18, Yoon Sang-Hyun, a member of the National Assembly, along with 11 fellow legislators of the People Power Party stirred up controversy by proposing a bill to criminalize the act of recording phone calls without the explicit consent of both parties. Current law states in Paragraph 1 of Article 3 of the Protection of Communications Secrets Act that “No person shall censor any mail, wiretap any telecommunications, provide communication confirmation data, or record or listen to any conversation between others that is not made public, except as provided for in this Act, the Criminal Proce

On Aug. 21, labor groups and migrant workers currently residing in Korea protested for the right to freely move their workplace, along with better working rights for foreign workers. Their main reasons for the protest were that they have been discriminated against for a lengthy period of time, and that the freedom that exists for native workers does not apply to them. Discrimination against migrant workers also appears in the current law. According to the current Foreign Employment Act, in the case of hiring foreign workers, the workers are not able to change their place of employent without p

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world increased the money supply by subsidizing households and companies to prevent an economic slowdown. However, now we have a new economic crisis, inflation. The United States, which dominates the global economy, is no exception. To overcome the immediate crisis, Joe Biden, the president of the U.S., signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Aug. 16, 2022. The IRA aims to curb inflation by investing in domestic energy production while reducing deficits, lowering prescription drug prices, and promoting clean energy. The law will raise 73

우리대학은 2024학년도 대입부터 일부 입학 전형에 대해 대학수학능력시험(이하 수능) 최저학력기준을 적용한다. 우리대학의 2024학년도 대학 입학전형 시행계획에 따르면 수능 최저학력기준 적용 여부에 따라 기존 일반전형은 일반전형Ⅰ, 일반전형Ⅱ로 세분화된다. 일반전형Ⅰ은 정원 내 220명을 선발하며 기존 일반전형과 동일한 선발 방식을 적용한다. 1단계에서 서류평가를 진행하고 2단계에서 1단계 서류평가 점수 67%와 면접평가 점수 33%를 합산해 최종 합격 여부를 결정한다. 정원 내 80명을 선발하는 일반전형Ⅱ는 일반전형Ⅰ과 같은 선발 과정을 진행하되, 수능 최저학력기준을 추가로 적용한다. 수능 최저학력기준을 만족하기 위해서는 과학 2개 선택 과목 평균과 수학(미적분, 기하 중 한 과목 선택) 등급 합이 5 이내이고 각각 3등급 이내여야 한다.지난 2018년, 우리대학은 소수정예로 인재를 육성하는 대학 특성에 따라 정시모집 확대는 없다고 밝힌 바 있다. 그러나 고교학점제 도입, 정시 확대 등 급변하는 교육제도 및 교육환경에 적절히 대응하기 위해 우리대학 입학 전형도 변화하고 있다. 입학팀 한병욱 씨는 “학업 능력 및 잠재력을 평가할 수 있는 근거를 꾸준히 발굴해