As an engineering undergraduate student, Jae Young often felt that progress in science and engineering was hampered by a lack of true communication and cooperation between the university, government and society. At the Graduate School of STP, he hopes to work towards solving this issue with increased participation from the scientific community in affairs outside the laboratory and greater public understanding of the role science plays. He is also interested in R&D Policy, where better utilization of public resources, especially in today's poor global financial climate, is crucial.

Ji Hyeon has been an external affairs officer at Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM). Before joining KIMM, she has been a journalist for 8 years. Throughout her professional work and her undergraduate experience, majoring in international relations, she tries to interrogate visions of international and social development through science and technology policy study. She hopes to further examine how issues around the politics and radical revolutionary social movements are impacted, by the development of technology.

Joonhyeok majored chemistry and computer science in undergraduate school. In this period, he felt that those scientific knowledge make big influence to our society. Especially, computer science course gave him big recognion that technological improvement can change the shape of human beings behavior and social acts. To improve this idea, he decided to study about the perspective of social science and humanities.

Inkeon is interested in realtionship between STP and soicial activity. He came here by experience in social and NGO activities. Working as a coordinator in local volunteer school for challenged children and planning a workcamp ; building a housing in Philippines and China. From those experience he got a ideas about world structure and its mechanism. Now he want to explore a making a policy flat form for community activities and other public interests.

I majored in political science and diplomacy, and have greater interest in diplomacy and international relations. Science is needed to solve many problems, and sometimes it involves international cooperation. I am interested in how to deliver more efficient and useful cooperation among different actors, including various NGOs, international organizations as well as nations. I also studied law and administration as my interdisciplinary program in university. So I also want to figure out better way of reflecting science development to society in legal and administrative way.

Yu Min is interested in media, life quality, and technology. She studied bio-technology in undergraduate school, and now interested in the issue of “implementation and dissemination of science and technology.” Specifically she wants to research about health communication system, inspired by MERS outbreak in Korea. She decided to study in STP to contribute to the improved social communication that can equally inform public about health and S&T issues.

Bitna Lee studied chemical and biomolecular engineering and science and technology policy at KAIST. Studying at KAIST and meeting people in the science and engineering field, she became interested in the policies governing science and technology. Also, working as an intern at AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy (CSTSP), she decided to further study the political and social approaches toward science and technology. She hopes to study more about the implications of science and technology on biomedical, public health and social welfare to improve access and quality of care

Joonha first decided to minor STP in his undergrad period to be an engineer who is not alienated from society. Now he found himself fitting better in STP. He is interested in social institutions which cover S&T issues, such like Technology Assessment or University. Also, after his intern experience in AAAS OISA(Office of International and Security Affair), he is having a dream to establish an independent STP think-tank in Korea.

Richard's primary interest is studying philosophical and methodological aspects of scientific inquiry. Since his enrollment in KAIST as an undergraduate physics major, he has been greatly interested in how thought processes evolve and interact to define, formulate, and change scientific inquiry. He believes that understanding such process can facilitate and strengthen the development of science and technology policy frameworks. Furthermore, due to his ongoing interest in operations research, military studies, and combative systems, Richard intends to study how science and technology shape strategic thinking as well as formulation of defense policies.

Jung-Min is a graduate of Georgetown University where she studied Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA) with a concentration in Biotechnology and Global Health. Her undergraduate thesis was an analysis of the issues that brought on the food crisis in North Korea. After graduating from Georgetown she joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. At CSIS, Jung-Min was a researcher focusing on nuclear energy and nonproliferation. At KAIST, She hopes to re-focus on health and further her studies on how policy can be developed to support rapidly changing public health needs in an increasingly globalized world.

Yeseul's research interest has focused on the relationship between literary imagination and the development of science and technology. From Frankenstein to Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, English literature has long history of reflecting the society's up-to-date scientific discovery and has also imbued the imagination of scientists, pushing the boundary of human imagination. East Asian science fictions are also included in her research interest. Aside from literary interest, she's also interested in the economics of science R&Ds international protocols concerning current scientific development and science from the perspective of diplomacy.

Hye-lee majored material science & engineering and minored STP. Having lectures named 'Science and the Public' and 'Society of Science & Technology', she became interested in the realtionship between science and society. Her yearning to perceive it gradually increased during she worked as an intern at National Science Museum and Hello DD(science & industry online news). It was the biggest reason why she chose STP. Her current interests are public understanding of science (PUS) for adults and study of the networks in the community of scientists. She hopes to connect the community of scientists with the public society directly.

Sungjae interested in variety of issues related with data technology and future technology, such as artificial intelligence. One of the issues is integration of data technology and public policy. Data technology can give new insights on society which were not discovered before. Another issue is totally different aspect - considering about risks related with oncoming technologies. AI can transcend human race while it also can be huge risk of people. Sungjae also interested in influence of Internet and other technologies on human interaction.

Jun Gyu's primary interest is interactions between society and technology. From his civil engineering background and extracurricular experiences, he felt that engineer's path is not suitable to gratify his doubts about social issues, so he decided to study in STP. He hopes to establish a stable base between scientists, engineers and policy makers. He is also interested in new media and electronic devices. It is personal liking, but he considers it is consistent with his primary interest.

HakJun was interested in social problems occurred by inequality, for that reason he joined student council and did some work for realization of pledge about social equality in students' society. During volunteering works including Habitat for Humanity, he felt that he wants to live his life for making this world a better place. For him, the policy is a important tool which can affect civil life, and this is why he chose graduate school of STP, KAIST. Now, as a bachelor of engineering, he wants to study about social welfare policy with technical assistance for unprivileged, so called welfare technology.

Junghoon’s interest is about the relationship between science and society, especially in terms of the interest and attention on science from public. And on that issue, he is also interested in people’s – including both scientists and non-scientists – better understanding of science and technology. In his undergraduate years in KAIST, he tried to figure out the better way of education on science inside and outside of educational system. In graduate school of STP in KAIST, his goal is to find out his own way of contributing to the healthy relationship of science, society, and people.

During undergraduate years in engineering department, the thing that drew HyeJeong’s attention was exclusion and alienation which were tangled with technology. Also, the otherized lives behind development of technology and its related policy were what she mainly focused on. Based on a belief that studying politics of scientific knowledge might bring her insight to solve these problems, she decided to study in STP. Her current interest is politics of S&T in everyday life.

In his Bachelor’s program, Minsoo had been interested in political issues and the problem of inequality in Korea. He first joined the School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST for his Master’s program, hoping that, by combining what he had learned in the Department of Mathematical Sciences with Machine Learning (ML), he would contribute to a more just society. Feeling that it would be hopeless merely to study engineering without consideration of the relationship between technology and society, he decided to transfer to the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy. From the question, “Who would benefit more, and who would become more excluded from technologies?”, he tries to find ways to benefit less privileged people by technology.