I am writing this column on The Postech Times, and it has not even been from being matriculated a freshman! While the work itself is somewhat overwhelming, it is the most gratifying and lively times of my first year at POSTECH so far. On this note I would like to thank all of you at The Postech Times for granting me, a very unexperienced and clumsy writer, and such a cherishable chance to actually. At POSTECH! The one thing that made me land here at The Postech Times? I believe that is all to the spirit that is filling all around the campus. You can code if you want, you may even sit in on any

I am new reporter of The Postech Times! This article may be the first writing of mine as a new reporter. This fact makes my mind flutter. And I think this writing can help me when I lose my original intention.I applied here to learn and discuss how to write good articles. Yet, I am not good at writing. I will ask plenty of questions to senior reporters, and my articles will be proofread many times. Then, I will modify them and write articles again. By this process, both my English skills and writing skills will be improved. I am not familiar with professional terms like copy-edit, revision, an

I have heard a lot about The Postech Times before I applied for it. One of the things I have heard is that the job requires a lot of time and this is one of the biggest reasons why I carefully considered whether to apply or not. I am looking forward to studying at graduate school, so I put my biggest value in getting good grades. Having to put a lot of effort into extra-curricular activities can end up affecting my grade, but I believe there is a lot for me to learn by doing this job. Also, since I have been granted to “work” for this school, I am happily willing to start my job as a junior re

It is a true honor to be a new reporter of The Postech Times. There are other new reporters who have participated in making newspaper at high schools or who are exceptionally good at English. Unlike them, I am literally a newbie in the area of journalism. I have almost no experience related to journalism, and I am not that outstanding in English either. However, there are reasons why I applied for the recruitment, and goals I want to achieve as a reporter in The Postech Times.Since my childhood, I have considered journalist as a job that has a responsibility and power to acquire, reform, and r

When Steve Jobs died in October 2011, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) compared Apple to a fruit of a tree, the branches of the tree to the freedom to think and create, the trunk to the American legal system for free entrepreneurship and ownership, and the root to constitutional democracy. Some people believe America’s greatest innovation is the American Constitution. We look into the fundamental relations between China’s institutional innovations and economic development/growth and briefly prescribe the future direction of the Chinese economic policy. Nonetheless, we attempt to learn fundamental

I was exhilarated as I stepped down from Bus No. 105 at the East Gate of the haloed institution. Studying in a world class institute, in a country with a culture starkly different from that of India, interacting with people belonging to several continents, working in labs with cutting edge research technology, enjoying a new cuisine, attending lectures delivered by professors who are leaders in their field and a gazillion other thoughts raced through my mind. Walking towards Dorm 16, better known as DICE, I was skeptical about how these 4 months would work out. I was warmly greeted by my buddy

Recently, several events for the freshmen including orientation, general meeting for opening lecture, facing ceremony, and membership training have been going on. Since the events provide chances to meet new people, problems related to human relations have emerged through the Facebook site Bamboo Grove. I want to focus on the problems related to the personality, especially introspection.When I was in middle school, I was so introspective that I avoided people so I did not have any conversation with them. Talking with people makes me scared (except for my best friends). However, after few years

I am the new professor editor of The Postech Times from Spring 2016. This new position is meaningful for me because going back to the early 1990s, I myself was a student reporter of The Korea University Weekly for over two years. I was passionate about my duties and roles, which led me to leaving Korea and pursuing graduate degrees in communications in the U. S. When making the university newspapers about 20 years ago, we went to a typesetting shop every Friday and completed the final stages of production processes. I still remember that we often went to a gamja-tang (pork back-bone stew) rest

This article is attractive to me because I’m interested in VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augment Reality) technology. These technologies have potential and can be used in various fields. VR technology is often used in the game market. VR technology makes people feel intense pleasure. So many computer gamers wish that VR technology could be used more in games. The representative device is Oculus, which is introduced in more detail in this article. I want to have Oculus to feel extreme pleasure. I feel great even though I only dream of it. However, it seems like VR satisfying those populations wi

Nowadays, it is common to hear that diverse experiences are necessary to be creative, followed by traveling to new places. In new surroundings, people expect to be able to do absolutely different than they have done before and say it is not easy to belong to just one organization for a long time. This is also what I thought when I was a sophomore.I spent three years in POSTECH working for one organization, The Postech Times. When I was a sophomore, I wanted to challenge myself. I joined a new club to meet different people and change myself. In fact, I joined the club because of my roommate. I

Whenever I summarize my life as an undergraduate, I always use the term 'free' and 'diverse'. Rather than achieving a high GPA, I have tried to go outside and experience as many things as I can. Thanks to those so-called extra-curricular activities I've done so far, I'm here to write about what I've done in my past 4 years.Since I'm not a special person, I was clumsy at entering competitions. Until my sophomore year, I tried and failed repeatedly. Failing in those competitions could have depressed me, but I thought failure was natural, as numerous brilliant people were participating there with

Many undergraduate students have some experiences of participating in contests or competitions, and I also participated in many competitions and was awarded some prizes. However, when thinking of memorable and special experiences as I am graduating, the Korea Computer Simulation Competition (2014-2015) reminds me of the reason why I study industrial management engineering. It is because the competition was the most important experience to me as an engineer. In 2014, many safety accidents occurred such as collapse of resort in Gyungju and sinking of ferry Sewol. The whole nation was deeply sadd

I’m embarrassed to say it but I’d been very careless about reading news. I didn’t know the importance of reading it. Well, to be frank, I wasn’t interested in knowing nerve-wracking issues and tried to believe that they are not related to me. However, The Postech Times, piled next to the RC elevator all the time, brought me a positive gentle change. While waiting for the elevators to come, I found myself enjoying looking through The Postech Times. At first, I quickly had a glance at the photos just to find someone I know. However, as days went by I started to read it more carefully and more de

It is truly amazing how a small nation virtually devoid of any kind of natural resources achieved such a dramatic breakthrough in diverse facets including economy, technology, industry, and so on. Now, Korea is a nation whose economy is fueled by major conglomerates such as Samsung and LG. People in other nations may expect products from such companies to be more affordable in terms of price in Korea simply because they are Korean companies. However, this is not true at all. In fact, many items sold by these companies are more expensive in Korea than in other countries like the United States.

It is kind of a strange story, but I will join the Tuition Committee as the President of the Undergraduate Association on Jan. 4. Actually, our college tuition is always the same and exempt from scholarships in many cases, so I did not think it is important. However, as a person representing students, I had to think more about it. I joined tuition camp, at which people learn about fee calculation method and law of higher education. I also analyzed the various financial figures of the school. In the process, I felt both pride and sadness. Like our nescience to the thing that we have seen for a

The 30th anniversary of POSTECH is coming with the New Year. At the 29th anniversary celebration meet of the last year, I shared a few words for toast. "I cannot forget September 14, 2010. Arriving at a hotel in Nantes, France, we received an email from the Times media (THE). It said that POSTECH is ranked 28th in the world! I was so excited that I could not help dialing to wake the president at 2 a.m. in Korea. Get the Glory Back!"How could POSTECH start as a prestigious university 30 years ago? Was it because of top quality faculty or research? Or good laboratory facilities? Or was it becaus

The New Year has finally dawned. I hope the powerful energy from Yeongil Bay spreads out on the POSTECH campus to encourage Postechians to try harder in their duties and work for better future.Founded in 1986, our university is 30 years old. 2015 was the so-called 'ahhopsu', which means the years ending in 9, a time to be careful regarding cultural sentiment in the country. The number 9 means the end of time when we are preparing for a new start. Actually, POSTECH underwent many difficulties including scale of researches, finance, university rankings, and other statistics, which did not achiev

This year is the 30th anniversary for POSTECH and the members of POSTECH would not help recognizing the fact. Recently there is a popular drama called 'Respond 1988', which reminds us of the emotions of the moment as we look back to the era of 30 years ago. This trend makes us remember the past easily as I do in this article.The late 1980s, when POSTECH was founded, were a time of growth in Korea. The GDP growth rate of Korea reached nearly 12%, which was the highest rate in the world, and people experienced price stability and surplus balance in international trade. At the same time, the nati

Over past 50 years, silicon has been a core material in the semiconductor industry. So far, the number of microchips that can be integrated in a unit area has continued to increase, but it is now facing a fundamental limit due to the natural properties of silicon. It would thus be timely and important to look for another material with better properties for achieving higher performance and even smaller devices. In this respect, “two-dimensional (2D) materials” is attracting rapidly growing interests in the study of condensed matter physics and materials science. 2D materials are in the thinnest

Reading these articles, I was reminded that it has been a long time since I had read this news’ paper. Because most people are used to reading online articles, I could see many newspapers left at the booth. I picked one of them up and started reading it. First of all, The Postech Times has interesting articles. Before I seriously read all the articles, I did not know such many subjects are covered. Especially the article about students’ monthly allowance and expenditure was closely related with my daily curiosity. Also the start-up article was very informative. The figure in the article was co