Pohang

There, there's a link to the research paper in the show notes by the way, so you can dive deep into this if you're a, a audio geek.

[laughs] So researchers at the Pohang, I hope I'm saying that right, P-O-H-A-N-G, Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea have created something, the acronym is MiPAL, M-I-P-A-L, which stands for Meta-materials Integrated Parametric Array Loudspeaker.

There's a mouthful of geekdom for you.

Clears it all up.

What? Wow.

Okay.

Researchers at the Pohang, P-O-H-A-N-G, University of Science and Technology and Konkuk, K-O-N-K-U-K, I know I'm butchering these words, uh, University, both in South Korea, so a team of, uh, researchers from two institutions in South Korea, have developed a flexible wearable patch that uses everyday ambient light, such as indoor lighting and/or sunlight, to close wounds and promote tissue regeneration without relying on batteries or external electronics.

Oh.

There's 2 million people within 20 kilometers of those.

Our beaches are halfway to Busan and halfway to Pohang.

So they're not really...

I can get to Haeundae in 40 minutes.

No.

Pohang?

Yeah, exactly.

Pohang University.

Post-tech.

Yeah, post-tech.

There's some success stories with this.

I did a written interview in May of 2022 with Guo Yangjun, currently of Gangwon, at the time of Pohang Steelers.

And I asked him about the under 22 rule.

And he obviously said, well, he said it was a good thing because he was at the time still an under 22 rule player.

I think in its best instances, you're seeing, you're seeing teams with managers with tactical capabilities, being able to, to, you know, make two sizable changes to their, their game plan.

Really.

I mean, you think when you think like three subs can only really make you one decent change and, and, having that second wave of subs gives you that second option to change your game so I think it benefits the managers the teams that have the depth and the managers who have the experience but when you apply it to a league like K League I feel that no manager there's not many managers who take that additional advantage it's more just a case of replacing like for like we see it every week like Pohang every week change their four midfielders they don't they don't keep anyone on Park Tae-ha he's never satisfied but so I don't think the I don't think it was right again another one that was right at the time it was needed during Covid and now it's adopted worldwide and it's in the World Cup so it's not going anywhere but I still preferred it when it was three.

Same.

The Korea Times with Joo Dong-chan.

Hyundai Engineering and Construction has started building Korea's first data center dedicated exclusively to AI workloads in Pohang, aiming to finish it in 16.5 months.

The 40-megawatt facility will use NVIDIA GPUs and liquid cooling, and operations are targeted for the second half of 2027.

Hyundai E&C said the project uses an all-precast method and fast-track planning to shorten construction time.

Hyundai E&C has actual concrete going in at Pohang, 40 megawatts, liquid cooling, and a 16.5-month delivery target for the second half of 2027.

A construction clock is much harder to hand wave than a summit stage MOU.

They're aiming for roughly 10 times normal cloud power density on NVIDIA GPUs.

Then liquid cooling, grid hookups, and commissioning are the project, not the pretty precast slabs.