KAIST deans resign en masse

According to the Korea Herald, 20 deans at KAIST resigned in protest of the possible extension of Robert Laughlin's contract as school's president.
Don't know what good quitting will do, since they lose their ability to have a voice in the going-ons at KAIST, but that's their decision.
But those deans are not alone in their dislike of Laughlin

Nearly 90 percent of faculty member want his resignation, according to a survey conducted among 278 of a total 409 professors.

But this isn't exactly old news. Laughlin has been butting horns with the faculty over reform measures since he took his post in 2004.
The conflict has become a he-said-they-said squabble, with the faculty saying that the reform measures are "nonsense and unfair," and Laughlin saying that "the leadership crisis he is faced with is the fault of anti-reformists."
Although I'm not sure what to make of most of Laughlin's proposed reforms (expanding the curriculum into the fields of law and medicine, expanding KAIST's undergraduate program...), I would like to see his proposed system of performance reviews for professors come into effect. The faculty is carping about how this new system involves nothing but a short ten to fifteen minute interview, and how a person's competence cannot be fully realized in that time.
But I say that if the professors who are protesting Laughlin's proposed system truly are competent, they would have nothing to fear. After all, with his constantly stated pedigree:

[Laughlin] won the NobelPrize in Physics in 1998 and taught at Stanford University for more than 10 years before coming to Korea.

Laughlin probably has a pretty good idea as to what sort of person makes a good professor.