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As a Design and Marketing Intern at LakePharma, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, my main project was to build and deploy a microsite on the company's Hybridoma technology from scratch. I also supported the team by designing and writing marketing material to promote new capabilities and discoveries for emails and social media.

Hallyu (also known as the Korean Wave or Han’ryu) refers to the transnational popularity of Korean popular culture and is arguably one of the most significant cultural phenomena originating from Korea in the past two decades. Beyond popularizing Korean culture, Hallyu has also generated significant economic and political impact, not just within Korea, but around the world. This article will be published in March, 2024.

The relationship between society and technology is dynamic and largely shaped by the programmers and innovators who create the technology we use. With these rapid advances come problems such as algorithm biases that have yet to be addressed by programmers or policy makers, let alone understood by the general public.

In this paper, I argue that many Western-sponsored NGOs working in the Global South, despite marketing themselves as champions of women’s rights and empowerment, fail to recognize the varying cultural, historical and social backgrounds in which the question of women’s status is set, and thus reinforce harmful discourses and practices that maintain violent cycles of neocolonialism and orientalism.