APPENDICES Profile of Organizing Committee Members

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Profile of Organizing Committee Members

SARAH DOMINGO LIPURA is the Korean Language Program Coordinator of the Ateneo Department of Modern Languages and the Associate Director of the Ateneo Initiative for Korean Studies (AIKS). She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science (cum laude) and a Master of Arts degree in Asian Studies from the University of the Philippines. In 2006, she was awarded the Korea Foundation fellowship that enabled her to receive Korean language training from 2 prestigious universities in South Korea, namely, Yonsei University and Sogang University. After her fellowship, Ms Lipura returned immediately to the Philippines and has since then been actively involved in programs and projects that promote exchanges between Filipinos and Koreans. She has likewise represented the country in various international conferences in South Korea, including the 1^st Congress of the World Association for Hallyu Studies, where she has been invited as Philippine representative. Her research interests include, among others, International Relations and Global Politics, in general, and Korean Wave/Hallyu, Korea‘s Soft Power, and Korean Language Education, in particular.

EMAIL: [email protected]

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PATRICK MICHAEL CAPILI is a traveler. When he is not teaching at the Department of Modern Languages of the Ateneo de Manila University, he is out celebrating the different cultures of the world.

Although his tongue is European and his stomach Asian, he will always be Filipino at heart. He is a proud ELF and his bias is Ryeowook, with Sungmin, Hyukjae, Donghae and Henry as bias-wreckers. He dreams to live in Fullhouse when he retires. K-pop aside, Prof Capili teaches both Portuguese and Spanish and is the moderator of the Ateneo Lingua Ars Cultura. He also coordinated the 1st Campus Korea event in the Philippines organized by the Korea Tourism Organization last 2012 here in the Ateneo.

ALONA GUEVARRA is an Instructor from the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature of University of the Philippines Diliman's Department of English and Comparative Literature. She was awarded by the same institution an M.A. in Asian Studies, and a B.A.

in English Studies: Language (cum laude). Her research interests include sociology and literature, the fiction of Murakami Haruki, the fiction of Kim Young-Ha, youth culture and Hallyu studies.

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JOSE ANGELO SUPANGCO finished his Masters in Creative Media from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2010, specialising in Film and TV production. He returned to the Philippines after his studies and continued working in the Philippine media industry. He is a director and post-produciton specialist for Indioboy Productions. He also teaches in the Communication Department of the Ateneo and serves as the director of the Eugenio Lopez Jr Center for Multimedia Communication.