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■ Science - Research by Sung-Hoon Kwon, SNU Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Kyung-Cheol Moon of SNU College of Medicine Interactions among cancerous tissue cells visualized into a map. Patients’ 5-year survival rates accurately predicted using graph-based deep learning. “Can also be applied to MRIs and X-rays… will be a great help to the field of medical video data analysis.”

The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers announced on the 27th that they have elected Hyuk-Jae Lee, a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SNU, as the 53rd chairman. The term will last for a year, starting from the 1st of January next year.

The awardee of the 32nd Haedong Award, which is commissioned by the Korean Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (Chairman Seung-Woo Lee), and funded by the Haedong Foundation, was selected. The Haedong Academic Award was given to Professor Byung-Woo Jung from SKKU.

NAEK (Chairman Oh-Kyung Kwon), the highest authority in the field of engineering technology in Korea, announced the list of new members for the year 2023 (44 regular members, 93 general members), which was confirmed after a 10-month-long multi-stage review.

The world now looks very different from what it did just 5 years ago.

During Christmas, as I was completing my Maeil Essays, which I started writing three years ago, I came across John’s verse, “the truth will set you free”.

KAST announced on the 20th that during the “2022 2nd periodic general assembly” that was held on the 17th, 28 members were elected as new regular members of KAST for the year 2023.

Jong-Ho Lee, the minister of ICT, is currently put in the spotlight because of his witty naming senses. Instead of merely planning the overarching direction, the minister is also participating in naming the policies and thinking of ideas for slogans.

There were efforts by the government and the civilian sector to develop our system semiconductor industry, but unfortunately, the competitiveness is falling.

KT announced on the 15th that, in cooperation with Professor Jung-Suek’s lab, they have developed, and successfully tested a miniature antenna technology, RIS.