My name is KIMUSANG.Kimusang means the most common last name in Korea ‘Kim’ pronounced in Japanese.I am a 33-year-old TOEIC instructor. I began my career in 2009. The year 2018 is my 10th anniversary! :) I’ve been working hard as a TOEIC instructor for my students but there has been always something missing. Something that completes me. I wanted to find it for a long time.In 2015, my close friend came out to me as a lesbian and I was surprised that the “COMING-OUT” was just that easy. I was literally shocked. I had denied myself as a lesbian in my entire life. I thought accepting myself as I a

There are various materials around us, having different characteristics—hard or soft, elastic or brittle, rough or smooth. We use the materials with different characteristics appropriately to make our lives rich and convenient. Hard and brittle materials, such as metals and ceramics, are called “hard materials”, while comparatively soft and waxy materials are labeled “soft materials”. We are surrounded by soft materials such as textiles, paper, silicon, rubber, and jelly.The term, ‘soft material’ was first used by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, the 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Physics. It is a generic

There is this new soap that I am obsessed with these days. The soap has relatively fancy name: New Sweden Egg White Facial Soap. It has come to my attention that this particular soap is highly well-known among those who are interested in skin care. In this column, I would like to introduce my small experience about this soap and some food for thought.The first floor shower room at Residential College 2 has various bath products piled up without owners. It seems like they have been abandoned by some irresponsible residents who couldn’t be bothered to take their bath products during room changes

This has become my last article as a reporter, which is pretty sudden. As I started this semester, I was full of eagerness. I wanted to do so many things, but maybe it was my greediness. I could not bear the stress coming from academics and other stuff. I wanted to take the semester off; a leave of absence. I made up my mind just before the three quarter mark of the semester, I did not go to classes, and I started organizing the things I had to do. I had talks with professors, my friends, and other teachers. I was actually participating in quite a few tasks. First of all I was a reporter for t

As a child, I lived like ‘Daechi-dong Kids’, the place which is in the heart of Gangnam, the first street of private education in South Korea. I was tired of attending countless academies, but I did not think it was too much at that time. Many friends around me also lived such life, so it seemed rather strange not to attend any academies. The days with my friends were usually similar. We got up in the morning, went to school, copied homework, and went to academies together after school. We participated the class there, waiting for the night to come. Of course, I could not go home after the cla

Everybody pursues his or her success. Someone wants to make a big company, or somebody wants to be a great instructor who influences thousands of people. To approach their dream, most of them study their own field, sometimes try to persuade the venture capital, and struggle with the person who mocks his or her dream. Nevertheless, the people who appear on a TV show and brag their adversity are so few. Where are all the people who burned their countless nights for their success? This phenomenon makes me doubt the conditions of success.Frankly speaking, most of success is triggered by ‘luck’. I

I always believed that progressing everyday is the most worthwhile virtue in my life. I thought a person should advance internally and externally as time passes by. Taking time off, I was nervous about the fact that I was relaxing. It does not mean I always did my very best to deal with all tasks around me. However, I felt guilty whenever I took a break, which made me helpless. This tendency has worsened these days. Devastated, I tried to find out what was wrong with me.I finally concluded that the idea that a person should be better everyday is not always true. It might sound radical, but it

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It is truly a great honor to join The Postech Times! My lack of experience in journalism made me hesitate from applying for the job. However, after I heard that The Postech Times is not just a translation of the Korean newspaper, I changed my mind. I thought that exchange students and other foreign students at POSTECH might have a hard time catching up with all the latest information about what’s happening at POSTECH, since most of the information is shared mainly in Korean. I wanted to contribute to resolving this unbalance of information, and that’s why I decided to become a reporter. Now th

My decision to apply for the junior reporter position at The Postech Times was not without a firm motive. With this opportunity, I would like to show you who I am and how you will benefit from my reporting. Back when I was in high school in New Jersey, I ‘did’ join my high school newspaper club without the journalist’s creed in mind. My sole purpose was to improve my writing and to polish my college application. I regarded school newspapers as superfluous, thinking that no one even reads them. But one article I wrote in my junior year changed my whole perspective of the media. In brief, my hig

Anyone who has known me long enough would describe me as an ambitious challenge-lover, sometimes even too daring and affected. Certainly, I’m a person who can make my life difficult by overburdening myself. But I enjoy such a lifestyle as it allows me to fully enjoy my life. YOLO, (You Only Live Once) the controversial trend, just happens to be one of my favorite statements. Yes, we only live once, and yes this makes time so valuable and limited. So isn’t it logical to say that we should make the most out of this limited resource?As of Feb. 19, we are all proud Postechians and will be until th

When I first entered high school, I wanted to write for the school’s English newspaper. And I did. However, the articles that I wrote were for promotional purposes, unlike the normal newspaper articles, we think of, that are for information delivery purposes. Some people might say “It’s writing, what’s the difference?”, but for me personally writing to promote something is one thing and writing solely to deliver information is another.After somewhat disheartened two years of writing what I thought were not real newspaper articles, I got the news that I was accepted at POSTECH. Some people afte

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” This quotation, attributed to the historian Will Durant, seems appropriate after the recent experience of the M (Magnitude)5.8 and M5.4 earthquakes in Gyeongju and Pohang, South Korea, respectively.At 7:44:32 A.M. and 8:32:54 P.M. Korea Standard Time on Sep. 12, 2016, M5.1 and M5.8 earthquakes occurred approximately one hour apart in the city of Gyeongju and were felt even in the capital city, Seoul, more than 300 km to the northwest. This M5.8 earthquake is considered the largest earthquake in terms of magnitude to

On a night in early April 2016, we met after a long interval and were sitting at a small bookstore, getting burden off my chest. As we were unpacking various stories from each other’s attention to the latest issue, the conversation turned into the sexual assault in the school. From unwanted physical contact we had when we were freshmen to being called a ‘broken’ woman after returning to school. The story was never over, and the theme of the story flew on the minorities women have had in the society and the discrimination has come. Everyone there was aware of the unjustified situation, but nobo

What do you think is the proudest thing of POSTECH? I think it is the fact that the university has been ruled by students. Thanks to many students’ work in several preparatory committees, many events sponsored by the university had been held successfully. Besides, many students work as members of independent student organizations such as Club Union, Female Undergraduate Association, Student Committee of Library, Central Managing Committee, Central Executive Committee, Dorm Union and so on. Thanks to their working, everything in POSTECH has worked out fine. However, students tend to evade to be

During the 1960s, futurist Marshal McLuhan already predicted the opposition of Gutenberg and Marconi period through his book ‘Understanding Media, The extension of man’; image will replace writing, and technology will replace human’s consciousness in the future. Actually, modern life does prove that McLuhan’s prediction is partially right. Interest in books is not like the old days, and image genres such as movies are replacing the role of literature. In addition, technology is being developed in such a fast pace that we can’t even imagine where the end could be. The improvement in information

On Feb. 16, Yun Sung-bin won a gold medal in skeleton. That day, every Korean was really surprised about this news because skeleton was an unpopular sport in Korea. Nobody thought a Korean player would win this game. Almost every Korean didn’t even know skeleton before he won a gold medal. Like skeleton, curling was another unpopular sport, but Korean team has defeated top-ranked team from Canada. Women’s curling team finished preliminary as the first grade. Therefore, people are really interested about curling these days. Especially, it makes popular fad word like ‘Yeong-mi’.Before 2010, Kore

Scapegoated speed skater in Pyeongchang Olympics, sexual harassment of a female prosecutor, Choi Sun-sil Gate, and many more. It is undeniable that there are many controversial issues and debates being disclosed, especially these days. You may say such issues have occasionally come up in the past, or the advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (IT) has invigorated them. Of course, controversies have been Korean report media’s favorite topics and many modern SNS such as Facebook and YouTube effectively let us be exposed to controversial issues. However, what I am interested is

Since I said “Yes” from the request of the student who was suffering from choosing her major and asked me whether I could write for advising some students how to choose his/her major, it is my pleasure to share my experience to choose my major when I was young. Some part of this article was also taken from my statement of purpose that I wrote to apply for Stanford.In high school, studying the unimaginably small world of atoms and molecules appealed to me in such a great manner that I chose to study chemistry in depth in college. My goal was to be able to control the atoms and molecules. My pri

An infant, with a lightning scar on his forehead, whose parents are murdered by the greatest sorcerer of the era, grows up to become a wizard, and overthrows the whole wizard community controlled by his parents' killer, and kills his nemesis. A princess, whose family is murdered by a usurper, loses everything and flees away from the continent, but comes back with the whole Dothraki fleet at her command and three dragons to protect her.We all have an epic novel that we love. In these novels, the main protagonist goes through a perilous crisis. The heroic character might look weak against a