Filipinos Learning Korean

The Korean Cultural Center at the Manila Film center has started a pilot scholarship program for Filipinos working in the tourism industry to better enable them to service their market. This capability-building program aims to develop tourism sector stakeholders to be equipped with basic conversational Korean, reading and writing Hangul to better promote tourism development in the country. They had a commencement exercise this afternoon and will hopefully pursue further their currently acquired Korean language skills

the opening of the scholarship programme

the opening of the scholarship programme was graced by Department of Tourism National Capital Region Director Reynato Chua and OIC, sales and marketing department Ms. Aileen Tumaob representing Ms. Lydia Cosuco, deputy General Manager of the Philippine Tourism Authority.

The commencement ceremony



The certificate program recipients were

Charde Gelito
Nixon Sualog
Leal Gelito
Jonathan Benedicto
Regie Samar
Romano Dalisay
Rudy Sumido
Pat Augustus Montaño
Andy Oroceo
Joeven Tonel


This is a Korean song that they have practiced for a week and was culminated with a recording and a music video.

music by eru

recorded at the amazing show studios
engineered by casie villarosa
video editing by casie villarosa

the band...

grace lee / keyboard
eugene baroña / bass guitar
casie villarosa / drums (dd65 kit) and guitar

kyo lee / voice and song teacher

GOOD JOB, Guys!