On Sept. 20, the 18th POSTECH-KAIST Science War (PKSW) marked its start with the opening ceremony held at KAIST open-air theater. Many Postechians visited KAIST to support the POSTECH teams and to experience POSTECH spirit in PKSW. The opening ceremony proceeded with the performance from POSTECH’s cheerleading team CHEERO and KAIST’s ELKA. PKSW was scheduled for two days. Football, AI, Hacking, and E-sports took place on the first day and baseball, science quiz, and basketball was held on the second day. POSTECH Destroys KAIST in Penalty Shootout POSTECH triumphs over KAIST after the defending

Honorable Chairman Choi Jeong-woo!With the Mace that you have passed onto me raised in front, I vow to lead POSTECH with great responsibility. Thank you.My beloved members of POSTECH and distinguished guests! I would like to extend my deepest gratitude and welcome your presence here today.Today, after joining POSTECH 32 years ago, when it had just opened as Korea’s first research university, I take my first step as its eighth president before you. It is my utmost honor and joy that I stand here, as a witness to both POSTECH’s birth and growth. On another hand, I am burdened as I undertake the

Postechians who entered before 2017 should earn 15 credits in General Elective courses and Postechians who entered after 2018 should earn 18 credits. In other words, all Postechians should take five or six General Elective courses to graduate. Every regular semester, more than 30 General Elective courses are available for them, which are available for about 2000 students in total. The total number of students who can take General Elective courses seems to be enough. However, when compared with the number of General Elective courses listed on the course catalog, which is more than 100, the numb

As societies’ focus on gender equality increases, education on sexual harassment/violence prevention is being emphasized. Currently, by law, all universities must conduct sexual harassment/violence prevention education, using the educational material made and distributed by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family during their freshman orientations. From 2019, the deputy prime minister and the Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hae stated that there will be a reinforced safety inspection during freshman orientations to check whether healthy university culture education including sexual harassment

Since last year, the Ministry of Education and the National Tax Service have enforced the ‘liquor tax law’, which states that a person without a liquor sales business license would be sentenced to up to three years in jail or fined up to 30 million KRW. In compliance with this law, the POSTECH Food Services took charge of distributing the liquor from last year. It allowed liquor to be sold directly from the patio near the booth instead of walking up the 78 stairs to the school restaurant.In connection with this festival’s theme: ‘Happy Circuit’, the Advisory Committee for the Sunrise Festival

For daytime booths, as last year, the Advisory Committee for the Sunrise Festival (ACSF) ran various booths; ‘Shooting’ where people played a shot game with a BB gun, ‘Chocolate Fondue’ where people dipped various snacks into chocolate, ‘Face Painting’ where POSTECH art club Guerbois and the members of the ACSF painted on people’s face and ‘Games of Memories’ where people enjoyed retro games such as hopscotch and a game of slap-match. These booths were open for two days. There were also food booths prepared by diverse groups, including suburban groups; ‘Po-Gong Cha’ where the alumni associatio

All POSTECH freshmen and sophomores are assigned to live in the Residential College (Dormitory 21) for two years. After this period of time, students are to register for new rooms among the dormitory buildings assigned to undergraduate students. Especially, female undergraduate students are obliged to register for a room in Girls’ Dormitory #1. However, this year, unlike before, Girls’ Dormitory #1 lacked enough rooms to host the entire class of 2017 and forced some to register rooms in Girls’ Dormitory #3, previously assigned to only female postgraduate students. Girls’ dormitory #3 is consid

There are about 152 leaders in POSTECH: 15 Steering Committee members, 11 student presidents from each dept, 3 leaders of Advisory Committees, 9 representatives of dorms, 47 club leaders, about 30 class leaders (assuming that they perform their roles for two years), about 33 department representatives (assuming that there are three representatives each for the first grade, the second grade, and over-third grade for each department), 4 leaders of press organizations and others. In simple calculation with the fixed number of students (1280), 11.88% of Postechians are leaders each year, and the c

POSTECH, unlike any other universities, has a long summer vacation that includes June, July and August. The three-month vacation gives students enough time to pursue what they have been longing to do during the semester. POSTECH offers great extracurricular programs during the vacation in hopes that students will be able to spend their time more productively and meaningfully. There is the Summer Experience in Society program (SES), where students work and gain experience in companies while improving their social skills. There are advisory committees, where students can actively take part in sc

Me—A Professional Journalisthttp://times.postech.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20735Reporter Yoon Seok-sang From Reader to Reporterhttp://times.postech.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20737Reporter Choi Eun-je Fresh Start as a New Reporter of The Postech Timeshttp://times.postech.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20738Reporter Kim Min-gyu “Literary Girl” Becomes A “Reporter” http://times.postech.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20739Reporter Park Jee-won

For three years in high school, my nickname was “Literary Girl”. I wrote in Korean rather than in English, and wrote sentimentally rather than rationally. No matter who, everyone thought I was a student more suitable as a novelist or a poet than as a journalist. It may seem strange that I, who is not talented at English, became a new reporter of The Postech Times. The reason why I decided to apply as a new reporter for The Postech Times was that I want to write helpful writings. Literature could entertain readers for a while, but often it is written to express writer’s feelings to others and g

English newspaper. My oldest memory of an English newspaper comes from a time when I was an elementary school kid. My school had an English newspaper of its own. The paper selected a few from the students who finished the puzzles there handed out presents; that was my weekly fun as an elementary kid. Not only that, I really liked reading my friend’s articles. I still remember my best friend’s article. It was about her life in the U.S.. She made her articles so interesting that, when reading them, I felt like I was experiencing what she had experienced. I promised myself that I would oneday wri

Ever since I was able to read, I read all the articles around me even if I did not know what they meant. I loved reading and newspapers were like a heaven of articles. As my knowledge of society grew, I could understand more parts of the newspaper. Even though there were still many economic and political terms that made it hard to read articles, they stimulated me to study more about society. Extending my knowledge of the economy, politics, and diplomacy was one of my pleasures.Through this, I could form my own views on social issues. I used to share and discuss critical social issues with fri

It is a great honor to become a journalist of The Postech Times, a highly established press in POSTECH. I express my gratitude to my senior colleagues, Professor Im Gyeong-soon, and President Kim Doh-Yeon for granting me this excellent opportunity. As a new member of the newspaper, I wish to assimilate knowledge and skills, blend into this community, and employ my abilities to further the eminence and history of The Postech Times.In order to work with purpose, I must identify what being a journalist means to me. I was a writer ever since I was in middle school. Being a journalist required a hi

Freshmen orientation (OT) was held from Feb. 9 to Feb. 14, lowering a curtain by matriculation ceremony on Feb. 15. 46 people worked for advisory committee for freshmen OT. There were 15 classes accompanied by four class advisors of elder students.Like no other freshmen OT of other universities, that of POSTECH is known for its comparably long period of five full days. Back then, first events started at 8 o’clock in the morning and freshmen had to wake up early to eat prepared breakfast. Due to past feedbacks on the tight schedules, first events started average of 10 A.M. this year and breakfa

POSTECH Course for Civilization Citizens will be inaugurated in March 2019. It was arranged to broaden the humanities of Pohang citizens and POSTECH members by providing high-quality lectures. The theme of the first semester of the course, which starts on March 7 and offers seven lectures every other Thursday until the end of May. has been planned as “I am a writer.” In the sense that the general public has the potential to become a writer, lectures are given on the connection between major and writing, and the meaning of writing. They were also composed of prominent writers. Six lecturers, in

Graduate students say that when choosing labs, one should consider not only the research level and the professor’s dissertations, but also the professor’s personality, since there are many who misuse their authority. Three years ago, a professor was sentenced 8 years of imprisonment for physically and mentally harassing a graduate student - forcing him to eat ‘human waste’ and chocking him with a plastic bag - and recently, a professor from Hanyang University was arrested for embezzling graduate students’ payments worth 600 million won. There are still many victims of such abusive behaviors un

The most important energy policy of South Korea, which imports most of its energy is a stable supply of energy. However, the government is struggling with supplying stable energy as conditions of both internally and externally have become increasingly difficult, including deteriorating national acceptability of nuclear power plants, limits on the expansion of new renewable energy, and increased pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the new climate regime. Energy conservation and efficiency improvement are essential for smooth supply and enhanced national energy security. In particu

This winter holiday, The Postech Times had the opportunity to visit Japan and explore prestigious Japanese universities, one being the University of Tokyo (UTokyo). UTokyo is one of the most reputable research-oriented universities, and The Postech Times was fortunate enough the interview one of the most insightful professors, Professor Yukiko Matsunaga, Associate Professor of the Institute of Industrial Science (ISS). After specializing in Biomedical Engineering, Prof. Matsunaga actively conducted researches on ‘Microvasculature tissue model for drug development and regenerative medicine’. La

From Jan 19th to 22nd, the members of The Postech Times visited Tokyo, Japan. On the third day, we stopped by one of the most prestigious technology university in Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). At TIT Suzukakedai campus, we had the honor of interviewing professor Nobuhiro Nishiyama at the Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science.Prof. Nishiyama’s main research is on the biomedical application of synthetic polymer. In other words, he aims to use polymers in nanomedicines. When asked about his motive for the researches in the polymer-based nanomedicine, Prof. Nishiyama underscored