This winter holiday, The Postech Times had the opportunity to visit Japan and explore prestigious Japanese universities, one being the University of Tokyo (UTokyo). UTokyo is one of the most reputable research-oriented universities, and The Postech Times was fortunate enough the interview one of the most insightful professors, Professor Yukiko Matsunaga, Associate Professor of the Institute of Industrial Science (ISS). After specializing in Biomedical Engineering, Prof. Matsunaga actively conducted researches on ‘Microvasculature tissue model for drug development and regenerative medicine’. La

From Jan 19th to 22nd, the members of The Postech Times visited Tokyo, Japan. On the third day, we stopped by one of the most prestigious technology university in Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). At TIT Suzukakedai campus, we had the honor of interviewing professor Nobuhiro Nishiyama at the Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science.Prof. Nishiyama’s main research is on the biomedical application of synthetic polymer. In other words, he aims to use polymers in nanomedicines. When asked about his motive for the researches in the polymer-based nanomedicine, Prof. Nishiyama underscored

‘The 4th Univer+City, University and City co-progress forum’ was held on Dec. 20 by Pohang city, Ulsan city and Gyeongju city.Those regions are called Haeoreum Alliance and they cooperate with regional universities. Univer+City forum is held annually to contribute to the vitalization of economy and development of universities for sustainable progress and innovation of the region. 150 officials were from universities such as POSTECH, Ulsan university, Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Dongguk University Gyeongju Campus, etc. as well as people of Haeoreum Alliance.“I sincerely h

Christmas Movie SpecialsIt was the second to last meeting for the semester. During the entire meeting, all ideas for articles were dark and gloomy. To brighten up the mood, it was suggested to use a whole page of the newspaper to do a Christmas movie specials, introducing three movies that represent Christmas. The article didn’t come into fruition for obvious reasons. However, let The Postch Times shortly introduce them.These movies were selected from the ‘The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All Time’ list given by Rotten Tomatoes. The first movie is ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, a movie follo

Nov. 19 to 23 was officially POSTECH’s Human Rights Week. For five days, MODAM, the Student Minority Human Rights Council, hosted Human Rights Week as a period where POSTECH students and staff can ponder upon the topic ‘Human Rights’ and participate in events that can aid in the creation of a human right-friendly campus environment. Campus events such as human rights movie screenings, MODAM talk shows, ‘Find the Barrier’ event, Human Rights themed exhibitions, and lectures can all help create this type of campus. Each and every event hosted promotes active and further contemplation on the them

PAM, an abbreviation for Postechian Activity Mileage, is the system for encouraging students to actively engage in Postechian Activities. Postechian Activity represents meaningful experiences that are planned to improve students’ competence during their university life, including student activities, volunteer work, reading activities, culture and art activities, and other extracurricular activities. The plan for the PAM system was disclosed on Feb. 20 through the POVIS Announcements board, and the guidebook for PAM was uploaded on Sep. 5 by the Innovation Center for Education (ICE). There were

The structure of the Jigok Community Center and the Student Union Building has changed by small degrees since it’s opening over 20 years ago. In 2017, March 21 the previous Student Cafeteria of the Jigok community center was remodeled into Haedong-Aurum Hall. After the remodeling of the Jigok Community Center, now the Student Union building is also undergoing remodeling work to further enhance students’ convenience and satisfaction.The Food Court, Café Serio, Kyobo Bookstore, stationery store, and convenience stores were temporary closed during construction. However, Woori bank and Atlas Hall

The fifth TEDxPOSTECH took place on Nov.10. Four speakers were invited to share their ideas on the theme ‘pioneer’. A representative of vegan fashion brand ‘Not ours’, Shin Ha-na cast questions on existing companies which exploit the animals with no critical considerations. A photographer, Hong San who takes pictures that will be used for funerals, helps people confront the notion of death. Based on the affection of struggling individuals, she criticizes the fact that the driving force of modern society is the guilt of the individual. A former student president of Seoul National University, Ki

With the advent of Mueunjae Undergraduate Studies, POSTECH has decided to implement the Pass/No Record policy (PNR) starting with the first Mueunjae students. Hoping it will help the freshmen adapt to their college life, the Office of Educational Affairs and Records (OEAR) brought up the PNR policy on the ground that such policy will ‘prevent any hesitation to explore various classes that arises because of the pressure to get a higher GPA.’With the PNR policy, professors of classes including General Chemistry Lab. I (CHEM102), General Physics Lab. I (PHYS103), General Life Science Lab. (LIFE10

On Oct. 1, five Postechians started the first day of ‘Life of Vegetarian’. It is a project by MODAM, Student·Minority Human Rights Council, for students to understand and appreciate the vegan lifestyle by experiencing their vegetarian lifestyle and lifestyle. The participants lived as lacto-ovo vegetarians for five days, thus not eating any animal products except milk and eggs. Additionally, they carried out several missions such as asking whether foods served in school restaurants included meat or not, eating a vegetarian meal at Burger King, and finding a snack that a vegetarian could eat at

POSTECH’s Source of Information: In-Po-StackSouth Korea is known for its advance food delivery culture. Most cuisines- Korean, Western, Japanese, Chinese, and even Vietnamese- are available at home. To follow this trend, many applications are offering convenience to users. POSTECH Application Development Club PoApper developed the In-Po-Stack App to aid students and others in catering and other needs.In-Po-Stack is an application and website that offers students the daily menu of each student dining facilities, such as Jigok Community Center and RIST, number and menu of various restaurants tha

During the 2018 KAIST- POSTECH Science War (KPSW), POSTECH succeeds to defeat KAIST in basketball but fails to win the two games: baseball and soccer. Competitive Match Ending in Regretful LossAs the opening game of the KPSW, the soccer game was held. After a game that went into overtime, our university was defeated by a score of 1 to 2. Because of the downpour, the condition of the field and the overall situation was not good. It was KAIST that scored the first goal. About 10 minutes into the game, the ball passed through the goalkeeper after a free kick.About 5 minutes after that, a free kic

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

For some time, there has been complaints that the residential college (RC) 20 is much inferior to RC 21, a newly built dormitory. To clarify such conflict and look for feasible solutions to the problem, a survey targeting undergraduate students was conducted. 42% have never lived in RC 20 but heard about the condition. 30% of students who have experience with RC 20 voted for 1, 65% voted for 2 and none voted for 5 in the scale of 1~5 which represents satisfactory level of RC 20. The scale clearly illustrates trend towards unsatisfying experience in RC 20 among the residents.When asked for deta

Starting from spring 2018, freshmen are no longer in the same department as the rest of the student body. All freshmen; until they decide their majors after the 3rd semester; are part of the Mueunjae School of Undergraduate Studies. Since all students have not declared their majors, it is crucial to elect a new leader who can represent the freshmen body and speak for their needs.The Mueunjae Undergraduate Council Election Commission received candidates from April 2 to 8, and on April 9. It was declared that two candidates would run for president of the first Mueunjae Undergraduate Council (MUC

On March 9 and 10, elections for the Undergraduate Association (UA) were held. Last October, the undergraduate association election stumbled as a result of the resignation of certain candidates, and the re-election was frustrated due to the lack of registered candidates. As a result of the ballot count, Kim Dong-seok (CSED 12) and Jeong Jin-a (CHEM 14), whose campaign, ‘Better Together’, were elected president of the UA and vice president respectively. Since this election was composed of just a single candidate, it was carried out by calling for yeas and nays. According to the official total o

Q. Regarding the improvement of smoking areas, please give specific details. Last year, the 31st UA installed a fire hydrant. Since the budget was fixed last year, we are striving to get support from school. Also, involving the Dormitory Union, enhancing the student perception toward the smoking areas is thought to be important. Several smoking booths with a simple roof are planned to be set in specific areas. The application for an unmanned information desk within the school district is under consideration with the General Affairs and Safety.Q. Since the cross-country march is outside the bud

POSTECH made industrial-educational cooperation contract with GS Retail in Jan.26. By developing data analysis methodology through agreement, GS Retail has business competitiveness and POSTECH gains industrial data so as to contributing to improving industry environment and exploiting it as research resources. The agreement contains articles such as improvement of big data analysis algorithm, application of high-end analysis techniques of academy to industrial field, contributing to development of analysis methodology by exploiting high-end analysis techniques. These articles aim for advanceme

POSTECH Pohang Mathematics Institute (PMI) held 13rd Ilju math school from Jan. 26 to Feb. 2 in National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS). Supported by Ilju foundation and NIMS, this Math School was chosen as winter school of NIMS. Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professors discussed ‘Banach Spaces and Related Topics’ without reserve, which is called ‘open school’.Professor Motohisa Fukuda from Yamagata University, Professor Gilles Godefroy from ‘Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu (IMJ)-Paris Rive Gauche’ and Professor Kim Jae-gil from GIST College were invited as l

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