In this blog post, we analyze the potential and limitations of Bitcoin becoming a financial innovation capable of replacing existing currencies. What is Bitcoin? These days, the currency attracting the most attention in global financial markets isn’t the US dollar or Japanese yen, but the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. When first announced in 2009, Bitcoin’s price hovered around $0.4...
Vitamin D Deficiency Among Koreans: Causes and Solutions
This blog post analyzes why Koreans are vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency and introduces effective lifestyle habits and supplementation methods to prevent it. Vitamins are essential nutrients that regulate metabolism and physiological functions in very small amounts. While similar to hormones in that they regulate bodily functions in small quantities, unlike hormones synthesized by the...
Unethical Animal Testing: Can Episkin Be a Viable Alternative?
This blog post examines the long-debated issues surrounding animal testing and explores whether artificial skin ‘Episkin’ can truly serve as a realistic alternative. Animal testing in science has been conducted for a long time across various fields, including medicine, cosmetics, and space development. Animal testing has significantly contributed to scientific progress, and its continued...
How does vitamin K work in blood clotting and preventing atherosclerosis?
This blog post examines the role of vitamin K, crucial for blood clotting and vascular health, and provides key information for preventing atherosclerosis and vascular calcification. Blood plays a vital role in supplying oxygen and nutrients to cells while simultaneously removing waste products generated during cellular metabolism. Blood circulation provides vitality to all tissues in the...
Can advances in video review technology replace the role of referees?
This blog post examines whether advances in video review technology can replace the role of referees, and the resulting changes in fairness and authority. Today’s scientific technology advances daily and has deeply penetrated modern society. Among these, high-speed camera technology captures split-second moments in sports that are difficult for the human eye to judge, aiding in...
How will blockchain transform human life through decentralization?
This blog post explores how blockchain decentralizes centralized systems and impacts human life. Join us in exploring the changes and possibilities this technology will bring. In 2017, the world was swept up in a cryptocurrency craze. People emerged claiming to have earned billions or tens of billions of won by investing in cryptocurrency, and despite media reports labeling it speculation...
How are rain and snow formed through meteorological processes and principles?
This blog post explains the various meteorological processes and scientific principles behind the formation of rain and snow in an easy-to-understand manner. How exactly is precipitation like rain or snow formed? Clouds consist of tiny water droplets or small ice crystals suspended in the air, formed when water vapor in the air condenses. Precipitation is created when these water droplets...
Do parents have the right to design their child’s genes?
This blog post delves deeply into whether parents have the right to design their child’s genes amid advances in genetic engineering technology, focusing on its ethical boundaries and the issue of infringing on the right to self-determination. The development of genetic engineering technology is expected to mark a new turning point in medical technology. Until now, existing treatments...
Is a society where parents can freely manipulate a fetus’s genes truly desirable?
This blog post delves deeply into the ethical issues that arise when parents manipulate a fetus’s genes. One of the most talked-about scientific issues in the medical community recently concerns CRISPR, a new form of gene scissors that is central to gene recombination technology. Following reports of its increased accuracy and efficiency compared to existing technologies, bright...
What are the criteria for overturning a defendant’s guilty verdict due to inadequate representation?
This blog post examines in detail how inadequate representation infringes upon a defendant’s right to defense, and what criteria and procedures must be met to overturn a guilty verdict, based on the latest case law and institutional trends. In criminal proceedings, defense counsel is not merely a litigation representative but bears the responsibility of actively protecting the...