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This is our class schedule for this week and the next. And more activities may be added. Korea has so many surprises, you know. Haha. But I’m not complaining. I’m happy to be living and learning here–and on a prestigious scholarship, too!
July 17, 2017
Wednesday last week my friends and I went to the ASEAN-Korea Centre. The number of books on ASEAN and Korea surprised me. Here’s something that caught my eye: 동남 아시아사: 전통 시대. I’m guessing it’s about Asian civilization in ancient times. It caught my eye because I’m interested in old ways of living. When I […]
July 9, 2017
One of my many goals for learning Korean is to be able to watch Korean films and TV dramas without English subtitles. Thanks to my intensive Korean classes at Yonsei University plus the Wednesday weekly Korean film screenings at school, I am definitely on my way there. But I realized something else. Sometimes, I […]
July 1, 2017
Since Korea Foundation (KF) invited us KF fellows to the 69th Societas Koreana Lecture Meeting and I had some free time, I decided to come with my friend and co-fellow Ummul from Indonesia. The lecture, titled “Embodied Archives of Authenticity: Age and Performance in the Korean Context”, was delivered by Dr. CedarBough T. Seiji from […]
June 26, 2017
1. Sri Lankan film “Dirty, Yellow Darkness” is based from a true story about a man who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and how he overcomes it. The protagonist is afraid of his own urine contaminating the space around him. This behavior alienates his wife and their marriage breaks down. The protagonist decides to […]
June 10, 2017
Yesterday was the beginning of the end of my stay in Korea as a Korea Foundation Korean Language Training Fellowship recipient. I started learning Korean language level 2 last September 2016 during the fall semester. From there, I progressed to level 3 in winter, level 4 in spring 2017, and now level 5 in […]
May 14, 2017
1. Pandora (판도라) is a 2016 disaster film directed by Park Jeong Woo (박정우). In a small town somewhere in the south part of South Korea, there’s a nuclear power plant that provides livelihood to the residents. But a series of unfortunate events makes the nuclear power plant a “ticking bomb” of sorts. 2. The […]
April 2, 2017
Yesterday I watched an old Korean movie (circa 2006!) called Radio Star at the Seoul Global Cultural Center in Myeongdong. If I haven’t told you that I’m been living in Korea for the past 7,8 months, well, now I’m telling you. I’m studying Korean language at Yonsei University as a Korea Foundation fellow/ scholar. But […]
August 6, 2016
Posting this screenshot here, for posterity. It’s my thesis for my degree in MA Korean Studies, a joint international program of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and Seoul National University in Korea. I studied under an ASEAN University Network Scholarship award. Hope my thesis could be of help to future researchers in the field!
August 6, 2016
It seems that my poem–one that I wrote long ago for a poetry anthology of young Filipino writers (back when I was, well, young)–appeared in a local web publication based in Baguio, Philippines. I just found out about this when I googled myself a while ago. Here’s a screenshot of the article: And here’s a […]
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August 2, 2017
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