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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Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia reúne los escritos de 15 integrantes del Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África (PUEAA), quienes recurren al género epistolario a fin de plasmar sus vivencias durante la pandemia por Covid-19.

Como escribe Alicia Girón, los integrantes del PUEAA "soñábamos con realizar actividades en diferentes lugares, como Corea, China, Japón, India, Marruecos, Senegal, Sudáfrica y España [...] pero todo cambió el 16 de marzo, cuando se decretó el cierre de todas las actividades". Así, las cartas contenidas en este libro están dirigidas en su mayoría a seres queridos o admirados que viven fuera de México. De este modo, los autores nos permiten vislumbrar no sólo su propio mundo privado e intereses de estudio sino también el de sus interlocutores, dándonos por ende una muestra de su sensibilidad ante un evento que ha afectado a todo el mundo. En efecto, la variedad de termas expuestos en las cartas van desde la nostalgia del encuentro físico, hasta la angustia debido al número de muertos y contagiados, pasando por los avatares de la vida cotidiana.

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The Korean peninsula is one of the regions that are currently under constant observation in the complex international mosaic. Characterized by its peculiar economic and political dynamics, today it has an emerging cultural representation that has managed to transcend the world.

For this reason, this book deals with topics that contribute to the understanding of the problems that define part of the current peninsular reality. It analyzes economic and political issues, which are undoubtedly essential for approaching the study of the Korean peninsula. However, the book reflects on the importance of the study of both Koreas from a social and cultural perspective, providing the reader with a human and deep analysis of the Korean societies, allowing them to learn about and reflect on phenomena and problems of the peninsular daily life.

In this way, under a multidisciplinary approach, the importance of each of the Republics in the current world context is shown, a perspective that also combines fundamental issues on culture and society such as religion, language and cultural consumption.