The Department will once again co-host the Philippine Korean Studies Symposium (PKSS) together with the UP Korea Research Center (UP KRC). The conference, which is now on its eighth year, will be held online on January 21, 28 and February 04. The PKSS aims to promote Korean language education and Korean studies in the Philippines. It also aims to raise interest among Filipino scholars regarding Korea-related topics in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and cooperation.

Dr. Jaechun Kim, a professor of international relations at Sogang University’s Graduate School of International Studies, will be delivering the keynote lecture on the second day of the 8PKSS. His lecture, titled “The Future of International Order and US-China Competition,” will discuss how competition between the US and China is shaping the global order and how it might affect globalization. UP Asia Center’s Associate Professor Michelle Palumbarit will serve as the discussant on this keynote lecture.

Two groups of students from the Department’s very first Linguistics of Subtitling course, handled by Inst. Michael Manahan, will be presenting their papers on the second day of conference:

• “Extraordinary Woords: A Review on the Filipino Audiovisual Translation (AVT) on Extraordinary
  Attorney Woo (2022)” by Laetizia Francisco, Jeri May Garcia, Trisha Nicole Magtibay, Bethania Marie Masangkay and Allerah Quinto
• “From 기러기 to alaala: Experiences in translating and subtitling an episode of the Korean drama series Extraordinary Attorney Woo into Filipino” by Keane Abesamis, Darla Lorraine Abrera, Hazel Anne Cipriano, Samantha Policarpio, and Kenzo Grey Salao

Two of UP KRC’s Core Research Projects will also be presented in the afternoon session of the second day of the 8PKSS:

• “Developing the Philippines’ Cultural Policies: Benchmarking the Korean Success in Building Sustainable Cultural Industry” by Mr. Mark Ysla and Ms. Marian Gongora (Far Eastern University).
• “A Semiotics of Demarcation in Manila’s Korean Neighborhood” by Dr. Julius Martinez (Niigata University of International and Information Studies) and Dr. Kyung Min Bae (University of the Philippines Diliman)

The lecture and presentations may be viewed on the following online platforms: