The Times Higher Education announced that POSTECH ranked third in the world and the first in Asia at THE’s World’s Best Small Universities 2019. The Times Higher Education publishes world rankings every year for universities with fewer than 5,000 students. THE’s World’s Best Small Universities used the same indicators as THE’s World University Rankings: teaching, research, citations, industry income, and international outlook, but assessed only small universities because the characteristics of small universities, which prioritize quality over quantity and pursue customized education, are not p

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

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

On April 30, at 11A.M. the 25th memorial ceremony for Mueunjae Kim Ho-gil, the first president of POSTECH, was held at the Mueunjae Memorial Hall. He paved the way for POSTECH to becoming a world-class university, but was passed away in an unexpected incident in April 1994. Attended by his bereaved family and the faculty members, the ceremony was followed by a special lecture and the memorial forum that highlighted the achievements of the deceased. The ceremony was attended by many professors and faculty members: Ms. Kwon Bong-soon, the representative of the bereaved and the wife of Dr. Kim Ho

For 30 seconds at 12 A.M. on April 6, Tae-joon Park Digital Library rang with shouts of Postechians who were tired of studying for their midterm exams. The event was ‘Screaming Day,’ which was held by Library Council LAON. Choi Min-seok (ME 17), the leader of LAON, replied “I am glad that this Screaming Day went well. LAON members helped me to finish it smoothly.” The start of the Screaming Day was a post from the POSTECH Bamboo page on Facebook during the first semester of 2015. An anonymous Postechian posted they wanted to get a chance to shout at the library, and that it should become a tra

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

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

According to research from the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), there are 5.64 million self-employed people in Korea. This is 21.0% of total employees, and the figure has decreased since 2008 when it was 25.3%. The ratio is quite high compared to those of OECD countries. In 2017, 25.4% of the total employees were self-employed and this is the fifth highest among OECD countries: unlike domestic figures, it counted unpaid family workers as self-employed people. Another report of the MSS claims that 67.6% of self-employed people started their businesses ‘because there was no other choice othe

All POSTECH members were cordially invited to the 2019 Matriculation Ceremony held on Feb. 15. On that day, 317 freshmen (B.S.) started their new academic journey at POSTECH. About 1,000 people including freshmen, their parents, and other guests gathered at the school auditorium.Before the ceremony, all new Postechians gathered outside the auditorium in academic regalia, and entered into the auditorium following the department flag bearers. After them, distinguished guests marched in order of mace, faculty, guests, and President Kim Doh-Yeon. At 11 A.M., the opening of the ceremony was officia

Dr. Lee Jae-yoon, the director of Shinsegae Dental Clinic, visited POSTECH on Dec. 19 and donated a scholarship for graduate students. The ‘Shinsegae Dental Clinic Scholarship Fund’, 50 million KRW over next 10 years, will be used for graduate students who have a hard time continuing their studies or research due to economic difficulties or disabilities.After completing the 28th POSTECH Advanced Management and Technology Innovation Program (PAMTIP), Dr. Lee served as the 16th chairperson of the PAMTIP Alumni Association. Since then, he donated to various projects for POSTECH’s development and

When reporters of The Postech Times arrived near the red gate of the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Jung Bum-jun, the undergraduate representative of the Korean Student Association at the University of Tokyo (TokyoKSA), welcomed. He led reporters to the first floor of the Engineering Building 11, near the Starbucks.When asked to introduce himself, Jung replied, “I’m Jung Bum-jun, and majoring in mechanical engineering at the University of Tokyo. 2019 is my third year at UTokyo. I had to spend last two years at the College of Arts and Sciences as a student of Natural Sciences I stream.” When req

Professor Lee In-su (CHEM) and his research team succeeded in making Janus Fe3O4 nanocube with a hole on one side by a very simple heat treatment method, and developing this particle into the swimmer, which can efficiently decompose the dyes in the water. This achievement attracted a lot of attention with a simple synthesis method, which is different from the former methods of partial etching and growth technique.The team focused on the fact that iron ions move in response to high temperatures. They surrounded nanocubes with silica, and heat-treated them for iron ions to move to nearby silica’

Professor Kim Chul-hong (CiTE), Park Sa-ra (CiTE, Ph.D. Candidate), Professor Jeong Unyong (MSE), and Park Gyeong-bae (MSE, Ph.D. Integrated) have developed Bi2SE3 nanoplate photoacoustic contrast agent at a wavelength of 1064nm. With this nanoplate, it is possible to observe deep inside the body, which was difficult to see through photoacoustic imaging. The study was published on the cover of Nanoscale, an international journal. The research team developed Bi2SE3, a nanoplate contrast agent. When placed between the tissues to be observed, it helps to visualize the image similar to a contrast

PAM, an abbreviation for Postechian Activity Mileage, is the system for encouraging students to actively engage in Postechian Activities. Postechian Activity represents meaningful experiences that are planned to improve students’ competence during their university life, including student activities, volunteer work, reading activities, culture and art activities, and other extracurricular activities. The plan for the PAM system was disclosed on Feb. 20 through the POVIS Announcements board, and the guidebook for PAM was uploaded on Sep. 5 by the Innovation Center for Education (ICE). There were

Professor Baek Chang-ki (CiTE), Professor Kim Ki-hyun (CiTE), and Cho Hyeon-su (CiTE, Ph.D. Integrated) have developed a fundamental sensor technology by utilizing thermal evaporation, which detects toxic substances such as fluorine and hydrofluoric acid in trace amounts. The team fabricated fluorine‧hydrofluoric acid sensor by utilizing silicon materials and semiconductor processing technology. In addition, by optimizing thermal evaporation, the team has succeeded in detecting fluorine and hydrofluoric acid in water with high a detection limit – fluorine: 1.9ppb, hydrofluoric acid: 4.5ppb. Th

The two main organizers of the STadium, which was held on Nov. 10 and 11, seemed to feel much better before the event. Kim Chae-yeong (IME 17) and Lee Seung-gyu (EEE 15) brought back the memories of the days of organizing and managing the event. The final winner was KAIST, but POSTECH won the soccer event.While talking about how fun the event was, Kim and Lee mentioned the difficulties they encountered while organizing the event. Lee said, “What I was somewhat annoyed at was, at the meetings, people (including myself) were not well-acquainted with the results from previous meetings. Therefore,

Student Leadership Election Committee (SLEC) held the joint speech session of candidate campaigns for Senior Leadership of Student Union of POSTECH (SU) and Female Student Union (FSU) on Oct. 30. During the session, candidates announced their election promises and had a question period. It was broadcasted live by PBS, and several students attended and gave out questions about candidates’ election promises. Because there was no candidate for Dormitory Union (DU) until the last day for the candidate registration, Oct. 22, the election for representatives of DU will be conducted by DU, not SLEC.

On Oct. 1, five Postechians started the first day of ‘Life of Vegetarian’. It is a project by MODAM, Student·Minority Human Rights Council, for students to understand and appreciate the vegan lifestyle by experiencing their vegetarian lifestyle and lifestyle. The participants lived as lacto-ovo vegetarians for five days, thus not eating any animal products except milk and eggs. Additionally, they carried out several missions such as asking whether foods served in school restaurants included meat or not, eating a vegetarian meal at Burger King, and finding a snack that a vegetarian could eat at

In ‘2018 JoongAng Daily University Evaluation (JDUE)’, POSTECH IME ranked ‘the best’, which means it is within the top 10% of industrial engineering departments in Korea. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Seoul National University ranked the same grade.JDUE is the first university evaluation program in Korea and has been carried out since 1994. POSTECH was not rated last few years because the evaluation was carried out on four-year universities with four or more colleges of humanities, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, medicine, and arts. This year, JDUE sele

The joint research team of Professor Kwon Se-kyun (GIFT) and Professor Levente Vitos (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) have succeeded in solving the simultaneous increase in strength and ductility in high-entropy alloy through the theory of metal plasticity. This can be applied directly to the study of various existing metal materials as well as the development of stronger and more flexible steel – ultra high strength steel that is three times stronger than aluminum. The team noted the phenomenon of twinning, and succeeded in unraveling the secrets of high-entropy alloy. The alloy is