Why are we embracing the Cittaslow Movement? The answer is “simply to live like a decent human being.”People have sacrificed the delight and happiness of ‘slow’ for the convenience of ‘fast’ like ecstasy presented by the current revolution of technology. The Slowcity movement does not aim to turn the majority of people from a ‘fast-based lifestyle’ to a ‘slow-based lifestyle.’‘Fast’ can be thrilling, productive and powerful. If it were not for the ‘fast’ lifestyle, Korea would still be poor today. Therefore, the movement is the recipe to find the harmony of ‘la dolce vita (the sweet life)’ and

In the last issue, The Postech Times featured an issue about slow life style and its importance for Postechians. As a Postechian, I totally agreed with the concept of a leisurely lifestyle. Everything in POSTECH is so fast that it is easy to pressure oneself. A lot of students are overwhelmed by due dates to such an extent that they sometimes copy other students’ homework or solutions. They spend the whole night in the library studying and because they are so tired, they are sometimes late or absent. My point is not to blame our students including myself, but perhaps change our attitudes or wa

A saying, “Money cannot buy time,” is right. Even Bill Gates cannot go back to his youth. It shows how important time is. First-semester freshmen in POSTECH are very busy meeting people in order to become a part of their department, section, and clubs. Also, almost all freshmen in the Department of MSE, MATH, CHEM, CE, IME practice dances for the Sunrise Festival. In the second semester, there are main performances of each club, such as dances, plays, orchestras, concerts, etc. So they spend a lot of time preparing for their performances. Then they become sophomores. Sophomores are also busy b

During the past two decades, the study of Computer Music (sometimes referred to as Electroacoustic, Electronic or New Media Music, or even Music Technology) has become increasingly prominent both within universities and on the musical scene in Korea. Computer music first began to appear in the Korean higher education system in the early to mid 1990s, and dedicated Masters degree programs began to be organized a decade later, in the 2000s. Many of these programs are attached to music schools and, more specifically, music composition departments, but on occasion programs have been created within

In the last issue of The Postech Times, I read an article about the difficulties of students who return to POSTECH. From the viewpoint of the man who is waiting to volunteer for military service, the article was so realistic and caught good points. However, the article left something to be desired. It would have been better off if it used not only the contents of the interviews, but specific information such as research materials that can support the article. Including myself, there are some students who are taking a leave of absence from school or planning to do so. Like the reasons mentioned

Many Postechians suffer from stress every day. Most of the things around us can be a source of stress. Someone consider study time stressful and the others think drinking parties are the most stressful. Sometimes, even your boyfriend or girlfriend can be a cause of stress. But people in POSTECH usually do not know how to deal with stress efficiently. Usually, they just evade the stress and try to forget the stress without a clear solution.Evading stress can be a solution for stress, but it can never be a good solution in the long-term. Solving the essential root of stress is the best way to so

A liar is a person who tells you things that are false. Could there be a person who always lies, a super-liar who spends all day, every day saying things that are false? This probably sounds like a silly question, but at the heart of this question is a deep philosophical puzzle. Suppose that a super-liar exists. What would you think if this person said to you:“I am lying to you right now.”At first glance, it seems like this utterance must be true, because the super-liar always lies. If what he says is true, however, then he is actually not lying, which is impossible because he always lies. So,

According to the article, “Korean Universities Enter Ranks of World Class Universities,” in the previous issue, POSTECH was ranked 9th in the “University Ranking: Asia 2014” by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). We know from many of the articles and evaluations from various organizations that POSTECH is undoubtedly a leading university in Korea; however, recent rankings from the QS are not up to scratch. It means that POSTECH has fallen in the estimation of the world, although it has risen in the estimation of Korea. In order to become a true world-leading university, this has to be overcome.Looking c

Nowadays, there are several books that discuss how we should live our lives. These books are not only the interest of Koreans, but to the world. In most cases, those with more experience in life are advising those who still have a long way to go about some values that are easy to bypass. An author found that the elders have a tendency to be more satisfied with their lives. He thought that if we can learn what they have realized throughout their lives at a younger age, we could also live the rest of our lives with more satisfaction. There are many aspects that affect our lives. But for Postechi

In 2005, my wife and I were invited to join the faculty of Handong Global University. Although we were privileged to have had many Koreans in the courses we had taught at our previous university, living in Korea has enabled us to study the culture and life-style from close up. Korea has become famous in the world as a model of a nation that rose out of the ashes of a devastating war to become the world’s 7th strongest economy. However, at what cost?In an ambitious economy-driven society, the normal roles of husband and wife are being challenged. Families are being shaken to the core. The fast

After reading the previous The Postech Times I was impressed with the greatness of POSTECH. The article “the development of an affordable, large-area, and highspeed graphene nanoribbon” made me feel proud of my major and I showed my respect to Professor Taewoo Lee (MSE). Department of Material Science and Engineering department has a website to introduce news about professors and students. I entered the site and looked around others too. Within only one semester, there were so many achievements in the laboratories of our department. Their research results were published in authoritative papers

These days, people cannot rest anywhere even at home. They always receive too many messages, calls, and Kakao Talk alerts. They cannot put down their phones, which remind them of people, tasks, studies, and other events. Sales people continue to worry about their task at work after getting off work and students have a burden about studying, homework, and team projects whenever they see Kakao Talk and other’s activity on Facebook, even during weekends. However, people cannot constantly worry without taking any rest. At least on the weekend, people have to postpone their curiosity about how thei

The “Advanced Energy and Materials Devices Laboratory” (AEMDL) is based in the Department of Chemical Engineering and DANE and studies. AEMDL focuses on all aspects of the materials science of novel energy devices and the materials they are made up of. Today human kind is still striving (and struggling) to solve the problem of how to make a device that can produce electricity easily and efficiently but that people will buy. Thus, our research group is primarily studying ways to improve the materials that make up batteries, fuel cells, and other energy efficient devices. Most people are very fa

Nowadays, it is hard to find those who are away from the Internet. Especially, life in POSTECH requires many aids from the “Network”. Even I always log-in into lms.postech.ac.kr before starting with my assignments. Yes. We heavily rely on the developed IT. However, do we realize that we are not only receiving aids but also bearing the disadvantages given by the Internet? When I read the article entitled “Are You Meeting Big Data or Big Brother?” I was so grateful because this article accurately pointed out many benefits of Big Data in different aspect. Hence, I want to deeply discuss about the

Residential College (RC), a dormitory for freshmen and sophomores in POSTECH, has professors, called master professors, who lead students per each floor. There is a time that all students in same floor gather together and eat meal with their master professor every semester. When students who live in 11th and 12th floors ate dinner with Professor Joo-Yeon Yoo (LIFE) their master professor, she asked something to them. “Do you know who lives next door and have you talked to unknown neighbors while waiting for elevator?” Most students shook their heads and answered that they are reluctant to star

Intelligent Software understands language and human behavior and provides functions for users in the most convenient way. POSTECH intelligent software Lab (iSOFT) has investigated Spoken Dialog System and Natural Language Processing to build a bridge between humans and computers through language. Educational games for English immersion and automated evaluation and feedback are other challenging research areas for us. Spoken Dialogue Interface, which permits spoken interaction between users and computers, has much advantage over the previous devices, such as a keyboard, a mouse and a touchscree

An article titled “Importance of Science Merged with Politics” in The Postech Times made me think many things. When I was in high school, I wrote an essay about a similar topic. So I was interested in this article. Do you know “fundamental scienc?or “basic science”? It is the basis of engineering and applied science. Countries near Korea, such as China, Russia and Japan, have invested in fundamental science. China trained scientists and researched fundamental science in 1950?. Since 1900, Japan also has given considerable thought to basic science, and in 1949, a Japanese was awarded a Nobel Pr

In order to develop The Postech Times, I will try focus on three things. The first is obeying the basic rules of The Postech Times. Basically, The Postech Times is the place where I make the newspaper with other people. The important thing is that I don’t make it alone. Thus, keeping the promises I make with others is the most important thing I should do. The promises include meeting times, deadlines for finishing articles, the number of letters in articles, and so on. The second is writing good articles. Unlike magazines, books, or other reading materials, a newspaper is relatively independen

If I join The Postech Times, I think the most important thing to have is responsibility. As a representative The Postech Times, I will do my best with a strong sense of duty. I think it is important that I have to have the objective attitude as a reporter of POSTECH when I write the newspaper. There will be many things that can be written in a newspaper. Because I want to write articles that are related to people around me, it is easy to write an article with subjective feelings. Nevertheless, I will be more objective when I actually write the articles.In order to develop the newspaper, there

As one of the reporters of The Postech Times, I will use my merits to make it better. In my high school life, the most important thing that I did was a club activity. The club was made by me and my friends. We organized events like classic concerts, celebrity lectures, and so on. The common theme was “conversation”. Through those events I was able to converse with adults, friends, and even children. I believe that the ability to communicate with a variety of people is one of my merits. I will use this merit to effectively communicate with Postechians through The Postech Times, and conduct usef