The matriculation ceremony of the 2018 academic year freshmen brought in tremendous changes to the campus, as previously announced. Freshmen could defer choosing their major for a significant amount of time. Due to that, departments have been working to adjust their curriculums for the freshmen. Even though innovative improvements were made, most of it was aimed for the newcomers; thus, the former students of POSTECH were irrelevant to the modifications.However, some new policies made it through and are influencing some Postechians. The newly introduced English Program will be partly applied.

When Postechians get sick, how many choices do they have? They usually choose going to the hospital near Hyoja market or Pohang’s City Hall. And, if they have paid for a Student Medical Co-op Plan and their medical expenses exceed 10,000 KRW, they can get a deduction for medical expenses. It is the best way, but many Postechians have schedules during the opening hours of hospitals. Even if they do not have any schedule, considering the time and expenses for traveling there, some just go to the school health room. Located in the Student Center, they usually just get some medicine from the schoo

First, freshmen entering POSTECH tour campus and meet seniors for freshmen orientation. This orientation is held on Feb. 10 to Feb. 13, and freshmen start their first semester after a 4-day long weekend. To help freshmen adapt to POSTECH, orientation involves some educational and recreational activities. To learn what is different from the last year and what has changed, The Postech Times interviewed the chairman of the freshmen orientation committee Hong Eun-seok (LIFE 16) and the freshmen guide Son Hyung-jin (EEE 17), who are planning and preparing the orientation.Q. Does the new curriculum

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

▲ The slogan for welcoming interviewees on the auditoriumPOSTECH decided to make major changes from the scholastic year of 2018. From next year, all students except for students majoring in Creative IT Engineering(CiTE) will start their freshmen year without their major determined. After studying for a few semesters, they can choose their major without any restraints. There will be no limitations concerning the number of students in each department to guarantee their choice. To make the transition smooth, a lot of policies are being debated, planned, and executed. To inform and introduce Poste

▲ The curriculum of CMEAs POSTECH changed its identity from a research-based university to the value-creating university, the importance of entrepreneurship gets bigger and bigger. There is an expectation that the Combined Major in Entrepreneurship (CME) will educate and inspire Postechians’ entrepreneurship. However, the number of students who have enrolled in the program is only three until now.CME was established in 2015. CME was basically designed to convert students’ ideas to real products through product exploration, business planning, research development and value chains of foundation.

▲ A picture of a popular smoking spot in the residential areaSmoking is a major source of complaints in POSTECH. Even though there are designated smoking areas throughout the campus, a lot of students complain that smokers are smoking inside non-smoking areas, and causing disturbances with the acrid smoke and unpleasant smell. The frustration especially maximizes in the residential areas. Even though smoking within 10 meters from the dormitory and smoking inside any school building is strictly prohibited, some smokers smoke inside non-smoking areas, raising especially angry voices from the res

▲ 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

POSTECH Defeated 0-1 in Football After the opening ceremony, the football game was the first match of the POSTECH-KAIST Science War. To avenge last year’s defeat, the POSTECH football team practiced various strategies. Aiming not to allow the KAIST football team to score first, POSTECH’s team planned to use a counterattack using the long kick when the opponent exposed a weak point, while increasing ball share at the same time.Even though our team performed brilliantly, POSTECH was defeated again by the score of 0-1. During the first half, it was a close game with no goals. Despite of harsh pla

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

Freshman Lee was accepted to POSTECH this year. At first, Mr. Lee was delighted about campus life at POSTECH. After entering, Mr. Lee soon felt the difference between him and other high school colleagues who went to other universities in Seoul. His friends had several meetings with other university students. They also had a huge commercial district near their universities. Mr. Lee felt depressed about his campus life when he compares his with his Seoul friends.The story written above is fiction, but many Postechians would agree with this. The campus of POSTECH is somewhat narrow. Not for its g

POSTECH offers a variety of experience to students. Of all the experiences, founding a start-up company is a bit foreign, for it requires a lot of time and energy. In this article, we interviewed Kim Hyun-sung (EEE 15, cofounder) and Park Chan-hoo (CSE 15, CEO) of GEEKBLE.To show that engineering can also be nifty, and to share pleasure from it, the two students founded GEEKBLE, an engineering media startup. “Fashion designers boast their abilities on the runway, and get applauded. Just like that, we want to create a system where we can also take the spotlight.” Park said. Kim added “The conve

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

Many universities have their own mascots. Students can enhance attachment to their schools and proudly flap flags of mascots at formal events. For example, in the annual sports competition between Yonsei University and Korea University, students introduce themselves as eagles and tigers respectively. This symbolic expression evidently boosts morale. However, there has not been any official school character in POSTECH for 30 years. In 1999, producing a character was actually planned as a part of university publicity business. Through contests, a few candidates were produced. Entrusting a specia

The POSTECH campus is located on the mid-slope of a mountain, being a nest to a variety of wildlife. The birds are notorious for disturbing the sleep of Postechians, who burn their midnight oil. Numerous insects fly across the campus day and night. However, none of these wild neighbors have spurred up a debate as fierce as stray cats.There are many stray cats living on campus. The most famous is ‘Chil-ppal’, a spotted white cat. Famous for her friendliness toward humans, she appears near the seventy-eight stairs in the morning, greeting Postechians. ‘Oh-ryuk’, a young orange tabby tomcat seems

Every department opened their booths in the 2017 festival. The motto of this year’s festival is #YouOnlyLiveOnce. The concepts of booths differed greatly from parodies of movies to TV programs. Along with the great diversity came a huge number of customers. All of the department booths opened on May 10 and 11 from 6 P.M. to 2 A.M. LIFE opened their booth on the 12th instead of 11th. -MATHThe concept of MATH was spa. They have mashed two names, Gauss and Pascal, to show how it was related to spa. The last letter of Gauss and first two letters of Pascal makes spa. The people serving

There have been complaints about awkward situations including where male Postechians meet female janitors at men’s restroom. Those grievances were occasionally uploaded in POSTECH Lounge or POSTECH Bamboo Forest. Recently, there was a gathering organized by the student union, where this problem can be discussed. The purpose of the event was to celebrate the second ‘POSTECH Appreciation Day,’ to hear about some problems actually happening from janitors and discuss together to find out the optimal solution. Meeting with janitors was held at 4 P.M. on Apr. 26, at middle auditorium, POSTECH. The m

POSEF and 2017 Student Festival were held from May 10 to 12. This year, its slogan was ‘YOLO’ which means ‘You Only Live Once!’. It implies ‘Let’s enjoy this priceless time that will never return’. It consisted of day booths, night booths and POSEF as an independent program. Similar to the previous festivals, performances started from 7 P.M. in the evening. Many students only interested in fancy performances might have wondered what events were to take place before sunset. The answer is POSEF held first 2017 and day booth whose participation rate was not that great until last year. However, th

In the middle of March, residents of dorm 13 were announced to leave their rooms by Apr. 30 since the remodeling period has been set from May. 1 to Aug. 15. The residents of the dormitory, mostly graduate students, were furious with this one-sided announcement that has not taken any of the students’ opinion. The main points of the argument were from having to move in the middle of a semester and not being able to live with their roommates. It has been a widely known fact among the residents that dorm 13 will soon be remodeled. They just did not know when and it turned out to be a big surprise

Attendance is a fundamental obligation which shows students’ desire and will to learn and their respect to teachers. Because of its importance, attendance is one of the major evaluation standard in majority of classes. An electronic automatic attendance-absence recording system has been installed in POSTECH in 2005. Electronic attendance-absence recording system was introduced after POSTECH made a contract with Woori Bank to use Woori Smart Card as the student ID card.Both advantages and disadvantages of the electronic attendance system were figured out since it was introduced. With the electr