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‘A great honor’: Korean graduates with Filipino degree, wins Pinoys’ hearts

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Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/life/09/03/kim1.jpg"/><figcaption>Jiyoon Kim graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Filipino from Busan University of Foreign Studies in South Korea. Courtesy of Jiyoon Kim</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA—A Korean national who graduated with a degree in Filipino won the Internet&#x27;s heart with her achievement.Professor Jovy Peregrino of University of the Philippines Diliman posted a graduation photo of Jiyoon Kim, 23, on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jovy.peregrino/posts/10215189789523185" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page, congratulating his student for her achievement. Congratulations then poured in for Kim in her personal Facebook page.&quot;I received lots of celebration from [people in the] Philippines who don&#x27;t know about me before. It is [a] great honor to me,&quot; Kim told ABS-CBN News.<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/life/09/03/kim2.jpg"/><figcaption>Jiyoon Kim shared a photo of her diploma from Busan University of Foreign Studies in South Korea. Courtesy of Jiyoon Kim</figcaption></figure></div>It was her two-month stay in Bulacan in 2015 that convinced Kim to major in Filipino.According to Kim, when she was a freshman student at the Division of Southeast Asian Studies in Busan University of Foreign Studies, she had the chance to study basic courses about different Southeast Asian countries.She took a basic Filipino course, and she got very interested in it.&quot;My Filipino professor, Jovy, was super nice. He showed various sides of [the] Philippines to us,&quot; Kim said.After deciding on majoring in Filipino, Kim returned to the Philippines in 2018 as a visiting student in UP Diliman.Kim graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Filipino from her university on August 23.&quot;I was so happy to study Filipino culture and language during my university days. All people I met in the Philippines are so nice and kind,&quot; Kim said.&quot;I would not succeed to finish my studies without their help.&quot;Kim is currently enjoying her free time after graduation, but given the chance she said she wishes to work in the Philippines.

It was Jiyoon Kim's two-month stay in Bulacan in 2015 that convinced Kim to major in Filipino.

It was Jiyoon Kim's two-month stay in Bulacan in 2015 that convinced Kim to major in Filipino.

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‘A great honor’: Korean graduates with Filipino degree, wins Pinoys’ hearts

Rose Carmelle Lacuata,

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Published Sep 04, 2019 01:34 AM PHT

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Updated Sep 04, 2019 07:17 AM PHT

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