With the rise in catastrophic events, Pohang is unsafe from natural disasters. Pohang has already experienced a destructive earthquake in 2017, and Typhoon Hinnamnor, which hit Pohang in 2022, flooded facilities, damaged homes, and left considerable loss of life. With all these possible disaster threats, we should adequately prepare for natural disasters. As the first step of safety preparedness is awareness, The Postech Times interviewed Mr. Kyu Ho Shin from the General Affairs and Safety from our university. Please introduce General Affairs and Safety and its various roles. General Affairs a

Bruce, from the movie Bruce Almighty, receives the power to control the world from God. The film ends as Bruce loses his superpower and returns to normalcy, but for a moment, he lives the sweetest dream of being almighty. Likewise, things do not go as one wishes, especially when dealing with light. Nevertheless, the POSTECH research team of Professor Kyoung-Duck Park (PHYS) and Hyeongwoo Lee successfully controlled trions, which can be an essential element in optical communication development. They utilized nanoplasmonic waveguides to produce high-purity trions and manipulate where the particl

Do you have any plans to travel abroad? International travel holds a strong, intrinsic power that thrills one at the mere thought of exploring other countries. Experiencing rich cultures, trying exotic foods, and even simply roaming the streets feel exciting and new in foreign countries. Perhaps that is why Korean are in love with overseas travel. According to Statistics Korea, the number of international travelers peaked at 28.71 million in 2019. Considering Korea’s total population of around 51 million, it is shocking that more than half the people have traveled to another country. The numbe

SHIFT UP signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with POSTECH on March 29 to build Off-Campus. President Moo Hwan Kim and Hyeong Tae Kim, CEO of SHIFT UP, attended the signing ceremony. Under the agreement, SHIFT UP plans to provide field experience in game development, to actively support students’ career choices, and to help students develop their practical skills. Specifically, SHIFT UP made a policy to guide the students through a research project. They even made a POSTECH Off-Campus Conference Room and have prepared equipment and other amenities so that students can take online classes

EXchange 2 was one of the most popular TV series in 2022. EXchange 2 is a TV show where five ex-couples live in a house while keeping their past relationships secret. According to GOODDATA Corp, EXchange 2 ranked first on the issue power of Korean TV-Over The Top (OTT) content for three consecutive weeks. Also, many users subscribed to Tving, an OTT service, to watch the series. Yet, EXchange 2 was not the only dating TV show. There were more than 20 dating reality shows broadcast in 2022. Paradoxically, in the survey by the Korea Population and Health Welfare Association (KoPHWA) in 2022, 65.

Recently, a domestic and foreign research team collaborated and successfully devised a transplantable cell sheet for a wound. This cell sheet can be transplanted to a large and complex affected area like burns. Thus, the cell sheet is expected to present a new paradigm for wound regeneration treatment. A joint research team of Professor Sungjune Jung (MSE), Prof. Róisín M. Owens (University of Cambridge), and Prof. Jae Ho Kim (Pusan National University, School of Medicine) published a journal regarding the method to deliver a cell sheet to a target tissue, in the world-renowned scientific jour

As a kid, I loved to play with LEGO. The joy of the LEGO craft was searching for one fitting piece from a pile of blocks and assembling the selected pieces in the proper orientation. Writing uses a similar mechanism to building a LEGO work. The first step to writing is finding the right terms with definitions and connotations that match my situation. In the next step, I have to order the words so that the sentence convey my thoughts and intent. Although this process can be time-consuming, but finding unique words, sentences, and, eventually, text from an infinite possibility is the beauty of w