After the long winter, the colorful world of spring appears. For couples, this is a season full of romance and happiness. In comparison, those who are not couples may feel a bit of loneliness. During autumn and winter, the amount of sunshine decreases and causes an increased feeling of loneliness. Then why would we feel loneliness during spring? One reason is due to social comparison, which causes relative deprivation. Humans often judge themselves in comparison with others. In this case, people without lovers may feel loneliness from observing couples going on dates in spring, a season full o

Four undergraduate students, Kim Seungsoo (CHEM 10), Youn HyungJun (CHEM 10), Lee Changmin (CHEM 10), Chung Seyoung (CHEM 10), wrote a great educational manual for general Chemistry. They all entered POSTECH’s Chemistry undergraduate department in 2010. The book about which they wrote the handbook is titled Principles of Modern Chemistry, which is a famous chemistry textbook used by most of universities. In order to know how and why they tried this manual, The Postech Times asked them some questions.Why did you make this general chemistry manual?SMP (Student Mentoring Program) was the major mo

From Mar. 20 to 28, both undergraduate and graduate students were asked to participate in a survey called “Postechian’s Economic Awareness.” As a small incentive, among those who participated, a few were to be given Burger King Coupons through random selection. The survey asked students’ gender, year of birth, income, percentage of spending on certain categories: savings, and their purpose for savings. A total of 651 students responded, but only 561 responses were used; if the percentage of spending did not add up to 100%, the data was neglected. From the data, most students (38%) receive spen

No one could deny the fact that science and technology has contributed to the growth of Korea. The reason why Korea, one of the world’s poorest counties right after the Korean War, has risen rapidly as a global economic power is its investment in science and technology. However, some promising students are increasingly avoiding natural science and engineering fields. Even worse, the current scientific technology policies also do not encourage people to focus on or solve this problem. Only eight percent of the members in the 19th National Assembly have backgrounds in natural science or engineer

At this moment right where we are, we can listen to justice of Michael Sandel, physics of Walter Lewin, death of Shelly Kagan, even Stanford University’s special lecture of the late Steve Jobs. The Open Course Ware (OCW) movement has enabled us to audit famous courses from anywhere in the world.The OCW movement was started by MIT in 2001. By publishing educational materials from its courses freely and openly on the Internet, it serves society, shares knowledge, and increases students’ learning ability and professors’ lecture competitiveness. Started from 46 regular courses, MIT OCW serves 2150

From Nov. 2012, POSTECH has enforced a spatial allocation policy on managing campus space to propel redistribution and the efficient management of this university resource. The policy is based on the public concept of using space and the principle of maximum benefit. Having been discussed and reported since 2008, the spatial allocation principle has been implemented since 2012. According to the policy, the university is in charge of supervising charged space as well as free allocated space. Free allocated space is classified as educational space, research space, administration basic space and

Nam Woo Yi (ME M.S.-Ph.D. integrated course) was elected as the 2nd student president of graduate school for 2013 on Jan. 3. The Postech Times reporter asked him online what Postechians are curious about.1.The election of student president graduate school was delayed due an absence of candidates. First of all, thanks for your attention to the Graduate Students Association (GSA). I participated in GSA last year as an executive member and saw many possibilities. For that reason, I wanted to support GSA works as an executive member of GSA this year just like last year even though I need to focus

When Postechians registered for the next spring semester, freshmen and sophomores stuck it to POSTECH Leadership Center on Facebook. They would say, “we could not graduate on time because of ABC.” The Activity Based general education Curriculum (ABC) is implemented by POSTECH Leadership Center to provide whole-person education by complementing the existing major and HASS(Integrated Humanities and Social Science Program in POSTECH) in 2011. The object of ABC is for Postechians to foster their abilities of liberal humanity, culture, and leadership. So, ABC has emphasized the positive participati

I pray 2013 will be happy for all members of POSTECH. Our university, which is 25 years old, has lived childhood successfully in uneasy conditions, and now meets boyhood. Based on steadily run success of past 25 years, it is time to decide to apply ourselves even more diligently to solidify the status of POSTECH. We have to make brand value of POSTECH to be the leading university universally, beyond the top national university. To achieve our great goal, the bottom line is that we need to think of small works that each of us can do. The situation of POSTECH will likely become more complicated.

Greetings fellow staff! I am the representative of the Cooperation for the Development of Faculty. Although it feels like just yesterday that I first placed my foot in this cooperation, it has already been seven months. With only a few months until my retirement as the representative, the eventful year came to an end, and the year of the snake has arrived. I strongly hope that next year, we will move even closer to our goals. When I look back, there have been some regrets, but because we have been through a variety of events, this year has been a meaningful one. Moreover, I send my gratitude f

Greetings to fellow graduate Postechians, undergraduate Postechians, faculty and staff members of POSTECH, all of whom deserve my thanks for making POSTECH better. Looking back over the year 2012, it was a special year for the newborn Graduate Students Association (GSA) with lots of things to remember. I remember working on the revival of the 2011-abolished medical Co-op plan, issuing proclamation on cleaning workers in POSTECH, helping with absentee ballot applications, supporting Science and Technology Policy Town Meeting, and explanatory meetings we had in departments. And I think 2013 will

Many incidents occurred during 2012. Undergraduate conference of the board of representatives started for the first time, and POSTECH ranked second in University Sustainability and 50th in the world from The Times Higher Education World University Rankings. On the other hand, there were setbacks as well, such as cleaning workers problem and fire. The founding spirit of POSTECH states clearly that we should contribute to science, our nation, and the human race. We are now among the world’s top universities. However, we have overlooked our wrong customs and faults. As a result, disgraceful incid

A club is a group of people who meet regularly with same profession or share the same interests. In POSTECH, there are about 50 clubs, focused on things ranging from music to study. At the end of October, the article about plan for employment club became a talking point, as what the qualification of becoming club is. Feeling sorry about study groups about employment that have come and go, although employment information at POSTECH is insufficient, some students of department IME planned this club. However, the controversy over whether a group purposing employment can become a club has arisen.

As PSY’s Gangnam Style has become a hot issue ubiquitously, various versions of the music video have popped up. POSTECH, following suit, contributed its version released on Nov. 26. This was voluntarily organized by a few professors and students. Professor Suh Eui Ho (IME) said he “came up with the idea after observing MIT Style getting over 4 million hits on YouTube.” He had hoped that “this would help increase the awareness of POSTECH to other foreigners.” Prof. Suh and 7 other professors- Prof. Sunggi Baik (MSE), Prof. Sung young Chul (LIFE), Prof. Kim Dong Eon (PHYS), Prof. Kim Jong(CSE),

The second Creative Contents Contest (CCC) was held from Oct. to Nov. by POSTECH Leadership Center. The aim of CCC is for Postechians improve their leadership ability by projecting creative idea, promoting logical ability by embodiment of idea, and increasing communication skills through the contest. The thesis of CCC this year were the ways to increase sensitivity of Postechians, decrease stress level of Postechians, and enjoy campus life. The participators could choose one among the three given theses. Six teams were selected to the final round held on Nov. 23 at Hogil Kim Memorial Hall. The

What do you think is the English capability that is required of future global leaders?After explaining lessons he had learned through his spectacularly successful career, the invited main speaker at POSTECH’s matriculation ceremony in 2011 concluded his speech with one regret about his life. Declaring that English is not just a foreign language but the international language, the speaker confessed that he could have served Korea much more effectively in the international arena if he had been highly proficient in English. Then he implored the freshmen to become well versed in English. An execut

Students dozing and even sleeping on their stomach during classes are easily seen throughout campus. Furthermore, it is hard to see a class with fulfilled students. Freshmen’s high absence rates were revealed through a recent investigation. By entering six random classes and counting number of students in the class at the beginning of the classes, we found only about 63% of freshmen attended basic required classes on average. On the other hand, about 94% sophomores attended their major classes. The basic required classes are designed for freshmen, while major classes are supposed to take by so

Among the various student organizations in POSTECH, many students started to question the necessity of the Female Student Association. As POSTECH greets its 25th anniversary, so does this organization. In the past it was obvious that women’s rights needed to be fought for in both society and POSTECH. As many years have passed, however, women have grasped their rights as equals in society; thus, the need for women associations has decreased. On this basis, a few male students have complained that the Female Student Association is unnecessary and, perhaps, even a discrimination against men.Altho

“It started like the foundation of POSTECH,” said Professor Jung Ki Kim of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. “In order to establish a world-class university, POSTECH handpicked each student and set the optimum level when it was founded. POSTECH reserved seats for students who had been already selected. We maintain the level of POSTECH Cultural Program in the same way. We picked the cream of the crop when the POSETCH Cultural Program started. Now, specialists in different fields offer and desire to be involved in the program. ”The POSTECH Cultural Program hosted on every Thursday

The Department of Creative IT Excellence Engineering (CITE) was established in 2011 as part of the project “IT Consilience Creative Program” by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and funded by the government and enterprises. In its first semester, CITE accepted 20 undergraduate students and 18 graduate students. The concept of CITE revolves around education that students choose for themselves; the object is to create new value, which others have not imagined, through convergence without any boundary between disciplines. Since CITE is established by government project, the support per student in