On the 30th student council presidential election, candidate team CIDER set two things as the most imminent complications; student members questioning what work the council was doing, and the council working members pondering over why the members did not show interest in their work. CIDER promised to reach Postechians with formulas that will correctly suit POSTECH’s environment, and emphasized the weight of importance the team had for communications in inside and outside. CIDER declared, “We will make communications pleasant and student council stress-relieving.” Facing the end of the 30th stu

The term of POSTECH Student Union “Cider,” is coming to end, which means it is time to evaluate what the company did well and ways in which it didn’t live up to expectations.Pro 1: Correspondence to MND’s announcement on Abolition of Alternative Military Service On May 16, 2016, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced its plan on abolishing the alternative military service through gradually decreasing the number of recruitment by 2023. The main beneficiaries of the alternative service are students majoring in natural science or engineering, as they are allowed to continue to research

2016 was unprecedentedly busy and full of various events, such as abolishing fulfilling military service by working as a professional research agent, Choi Sun-sil Incident, etc. Because of that, this year’s Student Union, ‘Cider’ is in the spotlight on whether it properly represented POSTECH students on and off campus. In an attempt to investigate POSTECH students’ opinions on this year’s Student Union, The Postech Times conducted an opinion survey, and 38 students answered.Q. Do you remember any school event conducted by Cider?A significant number of people who participated in the survey answ

On Nov. 9 to 10, elections for Undergraduate Association (UA), Women’s Student Association, and Dorm Union were held. No candidates applied for Undergraduate Association until Oct. 21, and therefore the Central Election Management Commission (CEMC) extended the application period for another 10 days. Yun-seon Jang (IME 14) ran for president of UA, and Seung-jun Lee (MATH 13) ran for vice president, as a sole candidates. The motto of the candidates is ‘Neo-Na-Deul-I,’ which means intimate and informal relationships based on confidence. Candidates promised nine major election pledges. Such as es

One starry night, The Postech Times met the newly elected Women’s Students Association (WSA) presidents at the RC ground floor. They came back from Chemistry and Life Science building after attaching the poster to the female’s restroom. It was late, but their eyes were twinkling with expectation and passion. The Postech Times interviewed the new WSA president Min-ji Kang (CHEM 15) and vice president Ga Young Lee (Undeclared 16). Could you tell us the reason why you decided to run for WSA president and your thoughts after being elected? Min-ji Kang: During the two years in WSA, there have been

On Nov. 8 at 20:00, public hearing for the three associations’ presidential candidates took place at Room 301 in Hogil Kim Memorial Bldg. The following passage is solely based on the candidates’ remarks and presentation materials, and inquiries to the candidates. In 31st Dorm Union director election, only one candidate, with one vice-director candidate, applied. The candidate for the director was Sung Min-Sik, and the vice-director candidate was Hwang Su-Yun. Both candidates had been working for the Dorm Union for one year in the Public Affairs Executive Department, and for the 30th season (fa

This winter, facilities throughout campus, including Students’ Union, will be renovated. Postechians may have heard of rumors about Atlas Hall and Snack Bar remodeling. The Postech Times interviewed Facilities Management team to collect details about the work planned this winter and obtain information about other renovations being considered. Among those renovations planned for this winter, the most attractive one might be the Atlas Hall remodeling in Students’ Union. Its remodeling is designed to emphasize its original usage; exhibition, club activity, and show performance. A beam projector a

Sexual assault is a comprehensive term that encompasses sexual harassment, molestation, and violence. It includes all sexual behaviors towards a person without his or her consent. Sexual harassment is a more specific concept: giving unpleasant, uncomfortable, and humiliating feeling to another person through sexual language or behavior. POSTECH Women’s Student Association conducted a survey on “Sexual assault/Sexual harassment,” using Google Docs. The purpose of the survey was to identify the types and frequency of sexual assaults at POSTECH, as stated in the questionnaire. The survey consiste

In March 2016, POSTECH Admissions announced a new policy that will be applied to freshmen entering in 2018 or later. The new policy was including that every freshman will enter POSTECH without their major declared excluding students majoring in Creative IT Engineering (CiTE). Since the new admission policy has been announced, there are various speculations about how college life for freshmen in 2018 will differ from students who entered POSTECH before.Especially, there will be an inevitable change in education course for freshmen. Current basic required course includes General Physics I and II

The cancellation of classes in universities occurs more frequently and abruptly, compared to high school classes. The reason being, even though universities have their own school regulations on academic affairs, professors are indeed the sole hosts of university lectures. Seen at such an angle, cancellation of classes in universities is mostly accepted as a common phenomenon. In fact, what often occurs to be troublesome is ‘not’ cancelling classes. Several classes being held on the National Foundation Day of Korea which was a public holiday drew a number of claims from students. Indeed, having

Residential College (RC) in POSTECH is used as event building in summer or winter semester. Every student who lives in RC has to leave the dormitory during vacation. In one of English lectures, Campus English, class students are exceptionally permitted to live in RC 12th, 13th floor during the summer semester. During the move into RC, an affair associated with cleanup happened at the beginning of summer semester. A Postechian wrote on POSTECH lounge in Povis, with anonymous ID ‘Hwarang.’ In the writing, Hwarang said he joined Campus English class. Hwarang said more than one room in RC 13th flo

POSTECH has operated Residential College (RC) system since 2008. It was the second RC adoption in Korea (the first RC was Yonsei University Wonju campus in 2007). Nowadays, many universities are currently operating or preparing RC system. According to the paper, “The Origin and Development of Residential Colleges in the British Universities” written by Joo-Kwan Kim, RC systems in Korea stem from foreign universities’ examples. Among those examples, RCs in Oxford and Cambridge University are recognized as the beginning of modern RC system. Those RCs were operated economically and structurally i

Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) was included as an event of POSTECH-KAIST Science War, the event was played with a game developed by KAIST. However, for the 2017 POSTECH-KAIST Science War, the event will be played by a game made by POSTECH developers, Pokawatch. Pokawatch got its idea from the “Control Mode” of the game Overwatch, and basis is very similar. Two teams, POSTECH and KAIST, start from far left and right of the field. The field size is 21 units in width and 15 units in height, with a five by seven size objective area. Each team uses three units, each unit having to choose f

This year’s POSTECH-KAIST Science War was held successfully despite the scale of event was reduced due to earthquake. The event was not only a battle between representative players of each university, but also a festival for every student of both universities.Notable point about this year’s POSTECH-KAIST Science War was the participation of foreign students. Since the representative players started preparing for their match during summer vacation, time factor causes hardship for international students to participate as a representative. Unlike the festival held last semester, there were no boo

This POSTECH-KAIST Science War had a special event. Fierce competition was not restricted in real world. War continued in cyber world. A newly adopted exhibition match, Cyber POSTECH-KAIST War was conducted on Sep. 22 through 23. The Cyber POSTECH-KAIST War consists of KartRider, Hearthstone, Starcraft II, and Overwatch. This event was suggested by Opteamus, the E-Sports club in KAIST. Preparatory Committee in KAIST and POSTECH adopted the suggestion and organized it to exhibition match with Opteamus. Representatives for the matches were selected during the summer vacation, and the matches wer

College students fiercely compete to sign up for courses they want. At POSTECH, registration operates on a first-come-first-served basis, which is common among other universities. In this system, mouse click speed, not necessity or a desire for a class, determines registration success. This creates a problem since people who register first instead of those who actually need the course are able to enroll in the course. Some universities have adopted new registration systems in attempt to fix this problem.Most notably, Yonsei University has used ‘Y-CES (Yonsei Course Enrollment System),’ which a

POSTECH is its own exclusive English education courses without alternative requirements for TOEFL or TOEIC. Thus, the English skills of graduate students of POSTECH inevitably become dependent on the university’s English education course. To investigate the circumstances and opinions about the current English education course, The Postech Times has gathered opinions of students and professors in POSTECH.Postechians’ point of viewPOSTECH has a unique system for English classes, called the English Certification Program. The system changed in 2008 from requiring TOEFL scores to taking compulsory

International students have traditionally had their own booth in the festival, called ‘iPub’. The booth sells exotic international cuisines and drinks that are often not common to Koreans. The Postech Times interviewed Hyo-seung Lee(EE 13), the representative of DICE, the dormitory in POSTECH for international students and Sun-young Jung(LIFE 13), the head manager of this year’s iPub.Q. What dishes and drinks are going to be served this time?In this year’s iPub, Pakistan, Vietnam, Singapore, and Kenya participated. One cuisine for each of the four countries, chicken paratha (flat bread traditi

On Apr. 27, POSTECH undergraduate admissions officially announced general criteria for POSTECH’s undergraduate admission in 2018. The released document from the office highlighted two main modifications. First, there will be a slight change in equal chance selection admission for agricultural and fishing county residents, in that students’ residence status report in the claimed county is now a requirement. The second part acknowledges the most notable change in the application process, which is sure to affect virtually every regular admission applicants. The main idea of the second section is

The Housing Services aims to renovate all existing dormitory buildings by 2020 on the grounds that students’ satisfaction of living is decreasing owing to the deterioration in the buildings. This year, there are upcoming renovations for dorm 7 during summer vacation and female dorm 1, and dorm 12 for graduate student during the second semester. There is no relocation planned for residents of dorm 7 since the renovation will take place during summer break, meaning that most of the residents will be off campus long enough for the renovation to be completed. On the contrary, in case of dorm 1 and