Interview

Expanding the Boundaries of Laboratory Research into the Wider Realm of Robotics

Sun-Pill Jung, Jaeyoung Song, and Haemin Lee at Biorobotics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering

It may be challenging for anyone to step into a new stage beyond their familiar boundaries of activities. Recently, valuable achievements by robotics engineering students in conquering a challenge through teamwork have attracted our attention. Starting from the Biorobotics Laboratory led by Professor Kyu-Jin Cho, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Sun-Pill Jung, PhD candidate, Jaeyoung Song, MSc., and Haemin Lee, PhD won first place at the 2024 Form & Function University Robotics Challenge, held at Boston Convention and Exhibition Center last May, beating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Cornell University, and Stanford University.

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Farewell to Familiarity in Pursuit of Arete

Joon-ho Kang, Dean of the College of Education and a Member of the Olympism 365 Commission

Human growth results from challenges. If humans avoid challenges, they will be embroiled in familiarity and will not be able to achieve arete (excellence) in their pursuits. This is why Dean Joon-ho Kang of the College of Education emphasizes a departure from familiarity or challenge, who has been building his solid arete through his active engagement in various subfields of the sports world.

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Globalization of Hangeul, Standing at the Center of the Future of Language

Professor Ho-young Lee, Department of Linguistics

There are ethnic minorities whose mother language lacks an appropriate writing system; thus, these ethnic languages are in danger of extinction. Professor Ho-young Lee of the Department of Linguistics has successfully developed and distributed a method to write minority languages. One step further, he developed a digital font that could write all the languages in Hangeul and realized the globalization of Hangeul.

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Created My World with Tolkien

Hyun-mook Park (Class of 2021, Department of Linguistics)

As the saying goes, “The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.” It may be difficult to predict the limits of someone who delves into the topics that they truly enjoy. During the days wrestling with severe hemophilia in his room, Mr. Hyun-mook Park chose reading and translation as a means to communicate with the world and found himself with no limit in the world of literary works by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

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