Nayelli López

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Iztapalapa Unit, and a Master's degree in Asia and Africa, specializing in Korea, from El Colegio de México (Colmex). She received a scholarship from the National Institute for International Education Development (NIIED) of the government of the Republic of Korea to pursue doctoral studies at Hanyang University, Seoul. In 2011 she graduated as the first Latin American with a PhD in Korean Studies.

In Korea, she was a professor at Hansei University, Chung Ang University and Seoul National University. From 2014 to 2018 she worked as a tenured professor-researcher at the Autonomous University of Nayarit, being part of the PhD program in Social Sciences through the repatriation program of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt). Her lines of research address issues related to contemporary Korean culture and society, the Korean wave or Hallyu and issues related to Korean pop culture, contemporary Korean women and their image in Latin America, among others. She is a researcher level I at the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) and recently joined the Coordination of Humanities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as a researcher of the University Program of Asian and African Studies (PUEAA), where she develops various activities related to Korea.

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