Team Check
We don‘t only want to sound out our readers, we also want to introduce our team to
you more closely. For every issue, one of our team members will introduce themselves
here in our Team Check.
Andrea
Where does your interest in Korea come from?
It all started with a big coincidence: I found a TVXQ
music video on Youtube and was instantly lashed. I
wanted to know who these guys were, what else they
did, but also what that language was they were singing
in. Ater that I spent a lot of time working myself through
the entire K-pop scene of the time.
hat was more than
seven years ago but I never
lost interest and it’s not all
about K-pop anymore. I ind
the Korean culture fascinating,
the language is beautiful and
I’d love to just spend a year
travelling all through Korea, to
visit as many places and meet
as many people as I can.
Which cultural area are you
most interested in?
Name: Andrea
If you look at the development of SL via K to KSL,
what do you think and feel?
he irst thing that comes to mind is: wow. When we
started with So Loved, I would never have dreamed
that one day we’d organize something like the So Loved
Awards, which are not only known in the German
speaking part of Europe but all over the world. hat’s the
same with K – that this small
web magazine would grow
this much I would never have
imagined.
Tasks: Graphics design, building
and looking ater our websites,
translation
Skills: Photoshop, coding, being
unpunctual ;)
Random facts: has three mice, a
dog and two cats; can’t live without
cofee; thinks that linguistics is the
greatest thing in the world
Of course my interest in K-pop
is still huge. Apart from a few
western artists I exclusively
listen to Korean music. I’m
also fascinated by the Korean
language and am determined to learn it at some point –
of course I’d love to do that in Korea. hrough spending
so much time on all thing Korean I also discovered a
culture that is quite diferent from ours, and I’d love to
learn a lot more about it.
he fact the we are now
taking the next step with KSL
relects how much our projects
have grown and that we’re
deinitely not the small fan
project of 2008 anymore. It
also shows how much our team
has grown with these projects
and how the ups and downs
we’ve gone through over time
have made us closer.
Which
memories
or
anecdotes come to mind when you think about
these past years?
I’m not sure if I can call this an anecdote, but my love
for Korea is to “blame” for the fact that I’m studying
Sinology at university. Unfortunately my university
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