When I was a high school student, I had a plan for my life that I would enter a university in Seoul, enjoy a Seoul life for four years, come back to Busan, my hometown, and spend the rest of my life there. I assumed I would have hated Seoul since there are too many people and they are all busy. Though, I knew what Seoul life meant. There would be more than I had experienced for 19 years: many cultural events, different people with different backgrounds, various opportunities, and so on.But, fortunately and unfortunately, I entered POSTECH, which means I have to spend at least four years in Poh

1. LHC and ALICEThe LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is a powerful ring-shaped particle collider that lies across the border of Switzerland (Geneva) and France. It is 27 km in circumference and can collect data from collisions at the highest energy in the world since 2009. The LHC has contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson from proton-proton collisions, a particle whose existence was predicted by the standard model. Currently, research on the evolution of the universe after the Big Bang are being carried out by the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collaboration. QGP (Quark-Gluon Pla

Last January, I went backpacking to Europe for a month alone, following my parent’s advice- one should go traveling at a young age, even if it gets one in debt. During this period, starting from London, I visited Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Zurich, Interlaken, Venice, Munich, Praha, Vienna, and Budapest – a total of 11 different countries. During the first week of backpacking, I woke up early every day to tour famous tourist sites until it became pitch dark, just so that I could make the most out of the time and money I spent to get to Europe. I enjoyed appreciating the famous artwork (the Sun

I like physics. The metaphysical realm of quantum physics where things both exist and do not exist, the grandeur cosmos where galaxies swirl colossal stars all so silently, and the dancing of the invisible fundamental forces… These features were just too beautiful to me. My love for the natural science was so dogmatic, that I shrugged off all the discouraging advice such as ‘Physics does not get you money’ and ‘Physics is for geniuses’ and applied for physics on all my university applications. So, deducing from my rather physics-crazy introduction, readers would expect myself to be a physicist

About Brain Awareness WeekBrain Awareness Week (BAW) is a worldwide brain science festival that aims to share the development and the benefits of brain research with the public in hopes of popularizing brain science. The BAW, starting from March, annually coordinates with the partner organizations and provides various events to the public around the world. During the BAW, partner organizations promote the importance of brain research through enjoyable events and informative lectures to the public of all ages in their communities. The BAW, which was launched in 1996 with 160 organizations in th

This semester, Student Union of POSTECH has provided a couple of big cultural events for students to relieve their stress from academic work and to enjoy their campus life. Thanks to the freshman members who organized such events together, they were not formal or stiff but very free and fresh that many students were willing to participate in organizing the events.Student Union of POSTECH has majorly hosted three cultural events so far: POSTECH FEST, Highschool Uniform Day under Cherry Blossoms, and Before Sunrise.1) POSTECH FESTPOSTECH FEST is an annual beer festival of Student Union held in L

At the 24-hour library in POSTECH, many students study to prepare for quizzes and exams. Some even stay up all night. But why is everyone studying so hard? Some students may just like studying so much that they spend more than half of their day studying. But in general, I believe that the students are studying in order to gain economic freedom in the future. However, even they study so hard to make money later, they often seem surprisingly indifferent to the management and investing of money.In a recent class, the professor asked the students what they wanted in the near future. Most of the st

Hello, my name is Kim Do-yoon, a professor at Yonsei School of Business. I am glad to introduce myself on The Postech Times after the 2018 Winter POSTECH X YONSEI .The society we currently live in can be defined as a ‘hyper-connected society’. It is defined as a society where everything, including people, space, and object, is connected due to the advance in ICT. Communication is done through a network beyond computers and smartphones- the connection between people, devices, living, and matter. How much do you know about “connectivity”- the foundation of this hyper-connected

Have you ever put off what you should do? Perhaps, all readers who are reading this article have this experience. Because you may be putting aside works and reading this. Are you busy making excuses or feeling guilty about procrastination? Let me tell you a story about procrastination.When did people start to systematically manage their time? The first public clocks were introduced in the 14th century of the Italian Peninsula. This led to the first use of clocks as a means of supervising employees’ working hours. In 1418, a marble quarry located near Lake Maggiore first had a watch. The clock

I know that ‘happiness’ is a very abstract concept. However, if someone asks, “What is your lifetime goal?” I will answer, “My happiness.” Consider; where did this idea start? From when did I begin to want happiness? My first memory about me caring about my happiness is when I was a middle school student. I was typing about the times and situations when I felt happiness on the note pad application of my smartphone. The situations were not so special. They were just regular parts of my daily life. Of course, some awesome situations were included, such as getting 100 points on my exams. Neverthe

I am Jung Kyu-hwan, CTO of VUNO, a start-up company which develops AI-based medical diagnosis assistant solutions. After giving a lecture on the topic ‘entrepreneurship’, I was asked by The Postech Times to provide an article on my experience of organizing and developing a startup, so I would like to inform Postechians about what I do and share my thoughts on technology-based startups through this article. At VUNO, we are using one of the most noted technologies, the machine learning method – ‘deep learning’, to analyze various medical data, ranging from medical images to biological signals. B

We read many books in our lives. Most of the novels available in Korea are in Korean, Japanese, and English. Masterpieces that have won several literary awards are sometimes read regardless of the country. As an example of this, Milan Kundera’s ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ is a Czech novel that is familiar to us. Well-read Czech novels including this book have an history-based background, such as oppression, exile and World War II in the Czech Republic in the 1960s. ‘Too Loud A Solitude’ is a book recommended by a friend who majored in philosophy.This book is about a man named Hanta. He

Last winter, I became interested in Nintendo Switch, a gaming console that is both playable at home and on the go. But, after research, I learned about the many discriminations against Korean customers, and wanted to share my findings and thoughts regarding this issue.On Jan. 18, 2007, Nintendo launched its Nintendo DS Lite (NDSL) in Korea. Because NDSL was released before the iPhone, NDSL was on the up and up, and by Jan. 9. 2008, a million NDSL’s were sold in Korea only. In 2008, Wii launched, and by 2010, 3 million NDSL’s and a million Wii were sold. According to the Financial Supervisory S

There are several characters in the drama SKY Castle. Each character’s perspective towards child education can be observed throughout the episodes and through these various perspectives, the audience can reevaluate Korean education in many different facets. As a person who has experienced Korea’s university application, I was able to empathize to the drama’s content and ponder about the various corruptions occurring during university application these days. Overall, I want to organize my personal thoughts regarding Korean education through this article. Below is a conversation from the drama S

I was appointed as an editor of The Postech Times last semester, in the autumn of my second grade. I may be the youngest editor of the whole time. The typical tenure of the editor is one year. The former editor (15’) was two years older than me and there was no 16’ reporter at all last year. I and my peer reporters had to work hard to make up for manpower shortage and lack of advices from seniors. I had always wanted to make a better newspaper ever since the beginning of my term. If the paper permitted, I was eager to cover the most important news of that time. In spite of uncertain of the rea

It has been one year since I have matriculated to POSTECH and I officially became a sophomore. During this one year, many opportunities, success, and failures flew by. Not every page of memories was ‘happy.’ I faced many despairs and mistakes. Those moments certainly helped me grow. But it diminished the flame that I carried within me to Pohang. I was cut, bruised, and scraped mentally due to all the load of work and stress. I was basically lost. A year has passed by, however, no path to follow seemed correct; I was left behind with major decisions to make without any answers. I tried to remem

‘Women with Disabilities Empathy (WDM)’ criticizes the attributing the body and the experience of women with disabilities to just ‘disability’. WDM carries active movement on disability and gender intersecting, independent issues. It opposes the inequality and discrimination the disabled women experience and proceeds movements on various themes such as body, sexuality, independence and violence of disabled women. Proclaiming with solidarity with the minority, it works for the society of human rights and value of anti-discrimination.WDM, which marked the 20th anniversary in 2018, has been agoni

As a Postechian, I am proud to have matriculated into POSTECH, a university consisting of a small number of Science and Engineering specialized elites. POSTECH provides various opportunities for the potential scientists and engineers to communicate with each other and indulge in the rich exchange of knowledge. However, since POSTECH is limited to Science and Engineering, it is nearly impossible to study other fields of knowledge. Yearning for a new experience, I heard of POSTECH X YONSEI and applied to the 10-day-long program straight away; I believed that it woul

POSTECH’s vision is to “nurture creative global leaders with excellence and a sound personal value system”, and it is indeed one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea, providing the best environment for producing intellectual researchers. It is a world-leading research-oriented university, consisting of nearly 300 reputable professors and 76 research units with high-quality facilities; 2000 SCI papers and 500 patents are registered annually. It is unquestionable that POSTECH is an outstanding educational institution to produce excellent researchers, and, as a potential researcher

Entrepreneurship education has become popular for many reasons. Learning about developing business plans and creating a company allows students to better understand and integrate finance, economics, accounting, marketing, and other business disciplines, offering them an integrative and enriching educational experience. Entrepreneurship education encourages the founding of new businesses by students and alumni and equips them with critical decision-making skills that enhance the success of graduates in the job market. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial thinking and behavior increase the transfer