The Admin Portfolio
The Admin Portfolio consists of 4 executives.
Co-Presidents - Britney, Miku
Secretary - Soobin
Treasurer - Jaden
Name: Britney Kam (she/her)
Position: Co-President
Year: 4
Faculty: Arts and Management (B+MM program)
Birthday: October 1st, 2002
MBTI: INFP
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Britney Facts:
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Britney has been a part of K-Wave since September 2021.
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Britney has previously been a Junior and Senior Communications Executive and the President, and is now leading the K-Wave Executive Team for a second year in a row.
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She is majoring in Cinema Studies.
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Britney did classical Chinese dance for about 13 years and has been doing Kpop dancing for about 7 years.
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Britney is a member of Hexdra Project where she actively participates in dance covers.
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Britney is taking KORN 301 this year and she highly recommends UBC’s Korean curriculum and professors!
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Britney got into K-Culture in 2009 when her sisters exposed her to 2nd gen Kpop music and then became a Kpop stan through Red Velvet’s Russian Roulette and Twice’s TT.
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Britney’s current favourite artists include Red Velvet, fromis_9, Dreamcatcher, SHINee, MAMAMOO, and SEVENTEEN.
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Her ultimate biases are Red Velvet’s Seulgi and Wendy, fromis_9 Saerom, Dreamcatcher’s Sua, LE SSERAFIM’s Yunjin.
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Britney’s favourite K-Dramas are The Glory, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Twenty-Five Twenty-One, and The Uncanny Counter.
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Her favourite K-movie is Train to Busan and she has cried all five times she’s seen the film.
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Her favourite variety shows are Street Woman Fighter, Dancing Queens on the Road, and The Sixth Sense.
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Britney met Sunmi, SNSD’s Tiffany, and The Rose’s Woosung at their concerts in Vancouver.
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Britney also went to Red Velvet, SEVENTEEN, and SuperM’s concerts in Vancouver.
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Lia Kim once reposted Britney’s dance cover on her story, and After School’s Kahi also liked the dance cover post.
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Britney talked to After School’s Bekah on her IG live and made a joke that they should comeback with a song named ‘Conditioner’ (they have a song named Shampoo).
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Britney interacted with her ultimate group, fromis_9, on After School Club, where she did the ‘Stay This Way’ challenge with Seoyeon
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Britney was in the first row of Sunmi’s Good Girl Gone Mad concert in Vancouver with our Junior Graphics Executive, Peggy, where they successfully gave Sunmi their DIY cat ears during her concert! Sunmi also took a photo and posted it on her Instagram here!
Name: Miku Yamada (she/her)
Position: Co-President
Year: 5
Faculty: Science (Environmental Science)
Birthday: August 14th, 2001
MBTI: INFJ
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Miku Facts:
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Miku has been a part of K-Wave since September 2019.
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Miku has previously been a Junior Events Executive for two years and a Senior Events Executive for another. She is excited to co-lead UBC K-Wave as President this year.
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She is majoring in Honours Environmental Science.
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She enjoys dancing, particularly K-pop and Hip Hop.
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Miku loves the outdoors, and likes to walk and volunteer at parks.
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She likes to play Animal Crossing on the Nintendo Switch.
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Miku has a sausage dog named Saku.
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Miku got into K-Culture in 2013, through her interest in K-Dramas such as You’re Beautiful and K-pop artists such as SEVENTEEN.
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Her favourite artists include GOT7, EXO, and all NCT units.
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Her ultimate biases are NCT’s Jaemin and GOT7’s Mark, who’s mentioned her name on Instagram Live before!
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Miku’s favourite K-Dramas are Start-Up, Hometown Cha Cha Cha, You’re Beautiful, Touch Your Heart, Business Proposal.
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Her favourite variety show is 2 Days 1 Night.
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She saw Felix at the JYP Cafe in Seoul, and also saw EXO’s Sehun and Chanyeol in Seoul.
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Miku’s been to multiple concerts including NCT 127, PENTAGON and went to the Vancouver K-pop Con in 2018.
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Her favourite part of K-Culture is the food.
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She loves watching the YouTube channel Korean Englishmen
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In a K-pop group, Miku would most likely be the social butterfly member, and she’s able to talk to anyone!
Name: Soobin Pyeon (she/her)
Position: Secretary
Year: 5
Faculty: Science (Biology)
Birthday: January 2nd, 2001
MBTI: INFP
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Soobin Facts:
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Soobin has been a part of K-Wave since October 2019.
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Soobin has previously been a Senior Events Executive.
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She is majoring in Biology.
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She enjoys reading, writing and watching different movies and TV shows.
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Recently, she has gotten into cooking and it is mostly Korean cuisine.
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Soobin is Korean and has been surrounded by K-Culture at a very young age, but only seriously got into it through a Korean variety show in 2014.
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Soobin’s favourite artists include GOT7, DAY6, Baek Yerin and TWICE.
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Her ultimate bias is GOT7’s Jay B.
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Soobin’s favourite K-Dramas are Run On, Crash Landing on You, Our Beloved Summer and Business Proposal.
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She came across a GOT7 display at a subway station in Korea before.
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She has been to the old JYP building before they moved.
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She loves the sense of community that comes with K-culture as people who get into K-culture end up learning about different aspects of it like the language or parts of its history.
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If Soobin was in a K-pop group, she would be known for her trendy style! Her airport fashion would definitely be on point :D
Name: Jaden Jeong (he/him)
Position: Treasurer
Year: 3
Faculty: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Birthday: December 27th, 2003
MBTI: ESFJ
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Jaden Facts:​
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This is Jaden’s first year in K-Wave.
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He is majoring in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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Jaden enjoys Taekwondo, learning dances, reading webtoons, streaming Kpop playlists, and travelling (especially to Korea).
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He is currently reading the webtoon ‘Lookism’.
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He likes Korean snacks, banana-flavoured milk, and yakult that comes in 280 mL bottles.
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Jaden has been surrounded by Korean culture since he was little and started listening to Kpop when his dad made him listen to Girls’ Generation and Big Bang.
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Jaden’s current favourite artists include LE SSERAFIM, IVE, and BTS.
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His ultimate biases are IVE’s Yujin, aespa’s Karina, Agust D, and everyone in LE SSERAFIM.
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Jaden went to Chung-Ang University in May 2023 to watch LE SSERAFIM’s performance. It was also his first concert experience.
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