On Aug. 1, around 43,000 participants from 158 different countries gathered for the 12-day 25th World Scout Jamboree in Saemangeum, South Korea. The 12-day event gained international attention as South...
Starting on Aug. 24, workers from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began releasing treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (FDNPS), destroyed by the Great East Japan...
On Aug. 22, auditions were held for the 2023 school musical, “The Addams Family.” Call-backs took place on Aug. 24, and the following day, the cast list was posted. Unlike last year’s production,...
On April 6-7 and April 10-12 during office hours, the SIS Chess Club held chess tournaments in the high school atrium for students. Rules included playing in a Swiss-style tournament, meaning no players...
Spanish and Chinese classes prepared traditional Hispanic and Chinese dishes—from tanghulu to tacos—for a unique culinary exchange in the atrium on March 18. Chinese I-III and AP Chinese classes...
Joseph Chun, Design & Production Editor
| Mar 16, 2023
With graduation in three months, many seniors recently have visited photo studios with their friend groups.
“We were all discussing what we could do to make our last few months together memorable,”...
Even by the NBA’s standards, Donovan Mitchell’s 71-point game against the Chicago Bulls on Jan. 2 was a rarity. No NBA player had scored more than 70 points since Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006...
Seongsu-dong was once a neighborhood known for shoe-making. However, technological advancements in the late 1980s caused many factories to shut down, forcing the majority of workers to look for new jobs....
SIS participated for the first time in the International Academic Competitions’ Science Bee on Sunday, Feb. 5. Five members of the Science Club—Paul Moon (11), Yuna Park (11), Tobias Choy (11), Cecilia...
Joseph Chun, Design & Production Editor
| Jan 31, 2023
ChatGPT, a chatbot released by OpenAI on Nov. 30, 2022, has impressed users with its ability to understand and respond to human language in sophisticated ways, including answering questions, translating,...
With the start of second semester, SIS swimmers are back in the pool, training for their B style meets.
For context, KAIAC has implemented a ‘A and B’ system to categorize the myriad of swim races....
Joseph Chun, Design & Production Editor
| Dec 5, 2022
Defeat occurs once in a while to everybody, including us students—whether it be losing in a quiz tournament, missing a game winning shot, or performing poorly in a Model United Nations conference. And...