‘Despacito’ is overwhelming Billboard. It has been 32 weeks since the remixed version of Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee, featuring Justin Bieber) was at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. A music video from the original song that Justin Bieber didn’t feature recorded the top view on YouTube. People are starting to notice Latin Pop, the musical basis of Despacito.Latin Pop simply means pop songs from Latin America or the Iberian Peninsula. Therefore, Latin Pop usually consists of Spanish or Portuguese. Even though the language is not Spanish or Portuguese, the language does not matter as

Last Apr. 3, the first Korean Internet bank, “K-bank” started its operation. Consequently, last July, Kakao bank also launched the second Internet bank. Those two opened a new chapter in the Korean banking industry. Internet bank started its path at the end of 2015. A total of three candidates volunteered, and two of them, Kakao for Kakao bank and KT for K-bank were selected. What makes the Internet bank so different? They pursue simple procedures for making bank accounts and getting a loan. When you open a new bank account, you scan your identity card and take a video call with the head offic

From Jul. 14 to Jul. 23, The Korea Queer Culture Festival (KQCF) was held in Seoul for four days. POSTECH students also marched in the Queer Parade held on Jul. 15 with QUV, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) university student alliance of Korea.KQCF is a festival that has represented voices of sexual minority (also known as LGBTQ+) for more than 18 years. LGBTQ+ is a term meaning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. Lesbian is a female homosexual, and gay originally means homosexual person, but it is often used for a male homosexual person. Lesbian may also be referr

The live online streaming industry has been developing rapidly since it was introduced to the public. The main reason of its rapid growth was outstanding accessibility for both creators and viewers. While existing live online streaming websites such as Twitch and Afreeca are growing continuously, major websites such as YouTube, Kakao, and Naver have also entered the live online streaming market. However, there are not enough guidelines set for online streamers unlike pre-existing media such as newspaper or TV channels. Rapid growth of the live online streaming industry was not expected by poli

Coldplay, a British rock band formed in 1998, visited Korea as a part of 'A Head Full of Dreams (AHFOD)' world tour. The band is currently one of the most popular bands on the planet, and the Korean fans were craving for their concert. Coldplay never visited Korea before during their world tours since their debut. After the excruciating 19 years of waiting, Coldplay’s AHFOD tour was successfully determined to be held on Apr. 15 as Hyundai Card’s 22nd super concert.Reflecting the band’s fame and the love of Korean fans, the forty-five thousand tickets were completely sold within a minute, with

The 19th presidential election finished with the dominant victory of Moon Jae-in with a percentage of 41.08%. Especially, Moon Jae-in received overwhelming support from twenties to forties. The National Election Commission did not announce the number of votes according to each generation, but the exit poll conducted by KBS, MBC, and SBS indicates that majority of thirties and forties supported Moon Jae-in.The result of presidential election shows that support of younger generations was one of the main reasons why President Moon got elected. It is an opposite result to the 18th presidential ele

Summer is coming. People have to choose what to wear in this summer. Many people considered the clothes they had already put on last summer, but the trend is changing in succession, so it could be old-fashioned to wear the clothes that were famous last summer. It is required to select trendy clothes based on new products or the color.Firstly, the color of clothes is one of the main factors that express one’s characters. PANTONE, famous for Pantone Matching System, which many industries use for colored paint and fabric, announced PANTONE Fashion Color Report Spring & Summer 2017. Above photogra

According to the reports Center for Women In Science Engineering and Technology (WISET), the percentage of women among graduates in Science & Engineering colleges increased from 27.7% in 2011 to 28.4% in 2015 and the percentage of women in the newly employed Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce increased from 22.5% in 2011 to 24.2% in 2015. These figures show that the number of women in STEM fields is increasing. The percentage of female graduates exceeds the percentage of new female employees. This means that women in STEM fields have difficulties in the market o

Numerous Starcraft fans worldwide look forward to 'Starcraft Remastered', which will be released this summer. Some experts predict another wave of e-sport fanaticism. Unveiled in 1998, Starcraft has been loved especially in Korea and news about a re-made version surely excited many fans in the nation. So, what has been remastered? Remastering means improving image, detail, or sound quality. It can be applied to movies, games, and even songs. Advent of remastered games can be explained by change of game consoles such as PS3 to PS4 and companies' sales strategy (stated below). If a game is remas

In FOSSASIA, open source summit recently held in Singapore, Mar. 17, keynote speaker Chan Cheow Hoe introduced projects adopting an open source system such as developing software and searching the fastest way for ambulances to reach patients. In South Korea, KTDS, an IT service company, also launched an open source solution ‘OBICs COMPASS’ to manage open source system.Open source is getting more and more familiar to people. Open source is a software which is opened to everyone to modify the source code. Though it is derived by programming of source code, now its meaning is extended to various

Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the hottest technologies. If companies were more focused on popularizing VR equipment in the past, now they are focusing on the content. If contents were focused on entertainment purposes, now educational materials are receiving the most limelight.In 2016, EBS and SK Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop educational content with Augmented Reality (AR) and VR. This business agreement is expected to change the paradigm of educational videos from two-dimensional to three-dimensional experiences. SK Telecom has continuously been developing AR and VR

Imagine a city where highways are built all over the city, winding around homes and workplaces. Living in such city will certainly devastate one’s life. To avoid this kind of disaster, humans have had a long history of designing essential components of the cities before the residents settled in. But even when all the designs are set as planned, one problem still lingers; eventfulness. When will the city go on a downfall, nobody could tell. One season a city could be celebrating; another day suddenly half the city could be sitting out on roads for the same reason they had celebrated. The Motor

After the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye, competition between presidential candidates has accelerated and each candidate has come up with appealing pledges to attract the electorate. Even though political or economic pledges are considered the most controversial issues, there are also big interests on science related policy. The importance of science related policy is getting larger as the Fourth Industrial Revolution regarding artificial intelligence and automation is becoming an issue. Since there were criticisms about Korea’s past science related policies, such as lack of con

Digital healthcare is the integration of living and health using both hardware and software digital technologies. It frees personal healthcare from constraints of time and space. The research of digital healthcare can be split into many different subfields, for example, digital medical devices, digital therapies, wearable devices, telemedicine, big data analysis, and healthcare consumer engagement. The Postech Times interviewed a POSTECH professor engaged in digital medical devices research.Interview: POSTECH Professor’s View on Digital HealthcareProfessor Park Sung-min (CiTE) researches about

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) “Watson” has been an issue as Gacheon University Gil Medical Center has announced that they will utilize Watson in cancer diagnosis. Gil Medical Center started to use Watson since Dec. 5 last year, and successfully treated a stage 3 colorectal cancer patient. Gil Medical Center has announced they will input cancer patient’s data in to Watson and refer to the treatment which Watson suggests. In Gil Medical Center, “Watson in Oncology”, a type of Watson that is specialized in detecting cancer is used. In other words, there are other types of Watson speciali

“You are fake news!” The video of Donald J. Trump shouting at CNN’s reporter while ignoring his question during his first press conference went viral on the Internet not long ago. Coincidentally, the year 2016 had gone through a harsh wrestle with fake news. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, fabricated news raged in various channels. It was the worst on the top-major news outlet; the Facebook newsfeed, including "End the Fed", the most notorious one. One article in the New York Times noted that the amount voter fraud in 2016 was overseen by the stunning number of people to be next to

Sinking of Sewol ferry happened on Apr. 16, 2014. Almost three years have passed since the incident, but still unsolved mysteries exist. The incident has left people with indelible scars, which only got deeper as time passed. Current state of affairs including the impeachment process brought the Sewol incident back to the hot topic. As the Sewol incident became an important topic regarding the impeachment, people are trying to remember about the Sewol, in various artistic ways.MoviesAlthough there are various kinds of artworks that were influenced by the Sewol incident, movies related to the S

Naver released started a closed beta test of Naver Whale on last Dec. 1, a web browser in development for five years. Whale browser uses Naver as its basic search engine, just as Chrome uses Google. Whale was named after a sentence in a science fiction book, “the spacecraft was like a large whale.” Whale heads to become a spaceship that sails through the ocean full of information. The most important feature of Whale is its omnitasking ability: being able to deal with various tasks within a single window. This allows the users to handle multiple tasks without opening several windows. The follow

The Improper Solicitation and Graft Law, also known as Kim Young-ran Act, went into effect on Sep. 28, 2016. Both positive views and negative views coexisted about the influence of Kim Young-ran Act. People who were critical about Kim Young-ran Act concerned about decrease of gift consumption, because Kim Young-ran Act restricted gifts that cost over 50,000 KRW among government employees, teachers, and journalists. Especially, gift set sales around Korean traditional holidays such as New Year’s Day were expected to drop by significant amount.According to the poll conducted by Jobkorea, 58.8% o

Protectionism of the USA and ChinaDonald J. Trump’s slogan was “Make America Great Again,” emphasizing how America is a priority and will reconstruct the society quickly by helping the citizens get back to work. It is predicted that the election of Donald Trump will have influence on Korean economy. Trump’s evaluation on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a potential disaster ever since he was a candidate. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was regarded as a factor in killing jobs. By the third day Trump took office, he signed an excutive order to withdraw from TPP. Researchers a