After replacement of old equipment, there looked more people in the gymnasium fitness room than before. There was a freshman in sweatsuit of POSTECH rowing team, Lee Do-hyun (Mueunjae 18).“Today was the first day for my class to go the gym for Physical Fitness class (GEDU151). You know, the main entrance is closed except for special events and we should use the side entrance. By the way, only I and my two friends went to the side door and I realized that many students seldom use the fitness room.”“When I decided to enter POSTECH, firstly I searched for the library and the gymnasium. I also fou

From May 9 to 11, the 2018 Sunrise Festival was held with the theme ‘Byeo-Rak-Chi-Gi’ which means thunderbolt, and the slogan ‘Giving exciting stimulus for dry everyday life’. This year, the Preparatory Committee for the Sunrise Festival (PCSF) planned various day and evening programs. Before the festival, they ran the ‘Offline Po-Dae-Jeon’, which is the offline version of the Facebook page called Po-Dae-Jeon which posts anonymous writing. People wrote on postcards or sent messages through Kakaotalk’s open chat room, and members of the PCSF delivered them. The ghost house with the theme ‘Save

There were several difficulties about the 2018 Sunrise Festival. The first one was the strengthened crack down of the liquor tax law governing the sale of liquor. The Ministry of Education sent an official document ‘Cooperation for guiding compliance with the liquor tax law about undergraduate’s selling liquor’ to each university. According to the liquor tax law, a person without a liquor sales business license would be sentenced to up to 3 years in jail or fined up to 30 million KRW. Because all of the booths selling liquor during the Sunrise Festival are street stalls, the owners of booths c

On April 23 and 24, the election for the first Mueunjae Undergraduate Council (MUC) was held. There were two candidate campaigns: ‘Garo-Sero’ consisting of candidate Lee Ji-eun (Mueunjae 18) and her running mate Go Ye-song (Mueunjae 18), and ‘Beom-In’ consisting of candidate Lee Sin-beom (Mueunjae 18) and his running mate Ham Beom-ju (Mueunjae 18). Finally, Lee Sin-beom and Ham Beom-ju were elected president and vice president of MUC respectively.Among 315 qualified voters, 242 voters participated in the election – 2 votes were not recorded on the list, recording a percent error of 0.826%. 143

Professor Kim Ki-moon (CHEM, Director of IBS Center for Self-assembly and Complexity), Hwang Woo-seup (CHEM, Ph.D. Candidate), Dr. Baek Kang-kyun (IBS Center for Self-assembly and Complexity) developed a platform for detecting and observing a single molecule using Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a technique that uses a laser to reveal the chemical composition of a few nanometers size samples. It makes it easier to observe single molecules because it does not require complex processes or specialized equipment.The research team first used cucurbituril,

In March, Facebook, the major Social Network Service (SNS), was confronted with a ‘data scandal’. Christopher Wylie, the former director of research at Cambridge Analytica (CA), exposed that the personal information of more than 87 million users was collected illegally and used in electioneering. It started in 2014. Dr. Aleksandr Kogan from the University of Cambridge, England, developed and distributed a psychological test application called ‘This is your digital life’. It is known that if a Facebook user logs into the application through social log-in, the app developer can access friends li

Park Jin-ho (PHYS, Ph.D. Candidate) in the laboratory of Professor Lee Hu-jong (PHYS) and Professor Lee Gil-ho (PHYS), succeeded in realizing the short ballistic Josephson coupling in planar graphene junctions for the first time, with Dr. Lee Jae-hyeong (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), Hiroshima University, Japan and Korea Institute of Materials Science. With this research, it became able to come to a step closer to realizing a stable quantum device requiring strong coherence. A superconductor is a material in which current flows under a certain temperature, called critical temperat

This year, every freshman entered POSTECH without a major. Therefore, department activities became downsized and class activities are having bigger and bigger role. All freshmen are not allowed to attend general meetings and the MTs of each department. Some departments cancelled MT because of low participation and general meetings of all departments progressed on a lower scale than usual. On the other hand, the number of students participating in class activities is the same or more compared with other years. Under these circumstances, students have begun to question about the necessity of the

What do you think is the proudest thing of POSTECH? I think it is the fact that the university has been ruled by students. Thanks to many students’ work in several preparatory committees, many events sponsored by the university had been held successfully. Besides, many students work as members of independent student organizations such as Club Union, Female Undergraduate Association, Student Committee of Library, Central Managing Committee, Central Executive Committee, Dorm Union and so on. Thanks to their working, everything in POSTECH has worked out fine. However, students tend to evade to be

Professor Kim Dong-sung (ME) and Professor Kim Chul-hong (CiTE) team, developed a variable focus liquid lens and applied it to photoacoustic imagining devices to obtain high-quality biomedical images. Unlike fixed type solid lenses, liquid lenses have the flexibility to change the lens shape freely.The team developed a new concept liquid lens that can prevent the occurrence of electrolysis and adjust the focus freely and stably. The developed liquid lens adjusts the focus in two ways: vibration mode and static mode. This focus change is expected to be applied to scan image information from a t

Professor Kim Chul-hong (CiTE) won the ‘Lutronic Young Investigator Award’ from the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering. KOSOMBE is a large-scale conference in Korea, which has about 5,600 members since its foundation in 1979. The award is given to the individual who has made outstanding research contributions within ten years after receiving a doctorate. Prof. Kim has achieved several outstanding research achievements including the development of the ultra-high atomic force microscopy, which was awarded for his contribution to the development of medical and biological engineeri

During candidate registration in October, Kim Namwon (LIFE 16) and Kwon Hyukcheol (CSE 16) ran for a president and a vice president of the Undergraduate Association (UA). They did not submit a few required documents and violated several regulations, so they were warned by the Central Election Commision (CEC) from the start of the election. After several days, they resigned as candidates because next year’s president of the Central Executive Committee is vacant. At that moment, the election was a week away, so CEC decided not to hold the election for UA. After the election for Female Undergradu

▲ Kim Cho-yeop (CE, M.S. candidate)Kim Cho-yeop (CE, M.S. candidate) was awarded the grand prize with ‘Loss in the Jurisdiction’ and the runner-up with ‘If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light’ at the 2nd Korean Science Literature Awards. The ‘Loss in the Jurisdiction’ is set in the mind library, where people can engage with a person’s mind vividly through a connector, whenever they want, even though the person has died. ‘If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light’ is set in a space station. Many judges have praised her novels as elegant and beautiful Science Fiction.Kim said "Since I was a teenager,

The hysteresis is the delay that tap water runs a little late when we turn the faucet and the water still falls after we lock it. When this phenomenon occurs in the solar cell, the efficiency is lowered. Kim Tae-wan (CE, Ph.D. Integrated), Mahdi Malekshahi Byranvand (CE, Post Doc.), and Professor Park Tai-ho (CE) solved this problem and improved the efficiency by a single process called cuprous iodide (CuI) coating. They coated titanium oxide, an electron transfer layer used for flat perovskite solar cells, with cuprous iodide. A simple one-step spin coating method increases the energy level a

▲ The draft picture of the Campus SlideIn August 2014, the Campus Slide project was started. It was the first funding project of ‘Geek On Campus’, the POSTECH crowdfunding platform established by PODO, the IT service team of POSTECH Graduates Alumni. At first, the project aimed to build a slide at the 78 Stairs because there was a plan to build a slide there for celebrating the Sunrise Festival (it was canceled because of the budget problem.), and necessity for the convenient use of the 78 Stairs, and according to the survey by Geek On Campus, the 78 Stairs received the most votes. The Project

The team of Professor Kim Kyong-tai (LIFE) succeeded in making an autistic model animal through a joint research project with Professor Choi Se-young (SNU). In addition, the natural substance 7,8-dihydroxyflavone was found to be effective in the treatment of autism. This joint study was presented in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, for its accomplishments in the treatment of autism using autistic model mice.Professor Kim Kyong-tai said, "This research is expected to be used in the development of autistic model mice as well as in research on how autism develops and in the development of au

Professor Cho Dong-woo's (ME) team produced a 3-dimensional bio-blood vessel which can be naturally fused with body vessels by developing a bio-ink derived from the vascular tissue.The researchers created a hollow bio-blood vessel with components extracted from a human’s blood vessels. When these blood vessels are transplanted into the body, they are fused with healthy peripheral blood vessels, and various nutrients including blood are actively supplied to the graft site.It also includes a system in which drugs are gradually released, so it is expected to increase the success rate of transplan

From last year, several Postechians have written posts about the decrepit facilities in the gymnasium on the POSTECH Lounge, the Q&A, and the Suggestions/Recycling of POVIS. They complained about broken fitness equipment and the situation that broken fitness equipment were not repaired and managed. In a recent post, not only the writer but also other Postechians complained about the lack of facilities management. In 2014, three treadmills, the chest press machine, the shoulder press machine, the lat pull down machine, and the long pull machine were replaced with new ones. And in 2016, the belt

POSTECH Creative Idea Lab recently helped 24 undergraduate students, ordinary people, and employees to recieve the second class qualification of Makers specialists through Makers Specialist M4 Training Course.Under the slogan of 'Move Makers Move Me', POSTECH Creative Idea Lab runs woodwork and leather workshop M4 programs- M4 DAY for parents, and M4 summer school for elementary, middle and high schools.Considering its targets, the Makers Specialist M4 Training Course was scheduled during evenings on weekdays. This course was aimed to educate the students to understand DIY·Makers culture and l

During the last summer vacation, 300 students participated in the POSTECH SES program. SES means ‘Summer Experience in Society’, which started in 2016 to help students see the world with a broader perspective and plan their own future. Since it provides real internship experience in enterprises and laboratories, most participants are juniors and seniors. In 2016, six freshmen and 49 sophomores participated in the program. The number of total participants was 260. In 2017, seven freshmen and 63 sophomores participated in it. With the curriculum of POSTECH, most students start to take their majo