Sonia, Madi, Vivia, and Jeongwon.
Name: Sonia Li
Position: Senior Graphics Designer
Year: 4
Faculty: Arts
Birthday: February 26th, 2003
MBTI: ENFP
Sonia Facts:
Sonia has been part of K-Wave since September 2024.
She is majoring in Psychology.
Sonia’s hobbies include playing video games, looking for new music, baking, and testing the limits of her iCloud storage with too many photos and videos.
Sonia can sleep over 12 hours when she doesn’t have school or work.
Sonia has a huge K-Pop playlist that’s close to 2800 songs of all the K-Pop she’s ever listened to. She also uses it to track when she started listening to different groups.
Sonia has a terrible spice and caffeine tolerance.
Sonia first got into K-Culture in 2018, when her friend made her binge BTS music videos and she fell in love with Euphoria and Spring Day.
Sonia’s favourite groups are BTS (<LYS era3), TWICE, SEVENTEEN, LE SSERAFIM, ENHYPEN, LOONA, tripleS, ZEROBASEONE, and NewJeans.
Her ultimate biases are LE SSERAFIM’s Kazuha, ENHYPEN’s Jungwon, NewJean’s Minji, and TWICE’s Dahyun.
Sonia’s favourite Korean variety shows are Twinkling Watermelon, Run BTS, Going Seventeen, Leniverse, and tripleS Badge War.
Sonia has been to many K-Pop concerts, including: SEVENTEEN, JUNNY, Shaun, TWICE (floor seats!), P1Harmony, The Rose, ENHYPEN, and PURPLE KISS.
She got Mina money from the TWICE concert!
Sonia has been to the BTS bus stop in Korea, and visited some LOONA MV shooting locations in Hong Kong.
Name: Madi Wong
Position: Junior Graphics Designer
Year: 3
Faculty: Arts
Birthday: June 13, 1999
MBTI: ISTP
Madi Facts:
Madi has been a part of K-Wave since January 2024.
She is majoring in Psychology + Informatics.
Madi’s hobbies include sleeping, listening to music and learning their dances, drawing cute things, designing planners, playing Honkai Star Rail, and collecting keychains and stickers.
Madi’s special talent is that she can fall asleep anywhere, no matter how loud it is.
Madi also listens to a lot of Japanese music (ex. J-Pop, J-Rock).
Madi got into K-Culture in 2016, when her sister was really into Girls’ Generation and kept watching the “I Got A Boy” music video on repeat. The bright colours and funky styling left her flabbergasted, the rest is history.
Madi’s favourite groups are SEVENTEEN, THE BOYZ, ATEEZ, Monsta X, N.Flying, RIIZE, ZEROBASEONE, ENHYPEN, &TEAM, IZ*ONE, Weki Meki, Red Velvet, Tabber, I.M, DEAN, BIBI, and Yugyeom.
In terms of non-Korean artists, she likes Psychic Fever, YOASOBI, Ayumu Imazu, Da-iCE, and GARNiDELiA.
Her ultimate biases are SEVENTEEN’s Woozi, THE BOYZ’s Sunwoo, Jacob and Q, ATEEZ's Yunho, Monsta X's I.M, Weki Meki's Yoojung, ZEROBASEONE's Hanbin, ENHYPEN's Ni-ki, RIIZE's Shotaro, &TEAM’s Fuma, K and Nicholas, and Tabber.
Madi’s favourite K-Dramas are Goblin and Strong Woman Do Bong Soon. Her favourite K-Shows include Going Seventeen, I.M on the Beat, and Nana Tour with SEVENTEEN.
Madi’s favourite Webtoons are Solo Levelling and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint.
Madi loves naengmyeon and samgyeopsal!
Madi has the same birthday as ZEROBASEONE’s Sung Hanbin.
Madi went to I.M’s 1st World Tour: OFF THE BEAT in Vancouver, & got to say hi to I.M up close during sendoff!
Name: Vivia Fung
Position: Junior Graphics Designer
Year: 4
Faculty: Science
Birthday:
MBTI: INFJ
Sonia Facts:
Vivia has been a part of K-Wave since September 2023.
She is majoring in Biology.
Vivia’s hobbies include dancing, drawing, reading and cleaning.
Vivia loves yakult!
Vivia tends to play the same song on repeat for days, before moving onto another.
Vivia’s favourite genre of music is RnB.
Vivia first got into K-Culture in 2017 after hearing Spring Day by BTS, which was playing non-stop at a school event’s song request station.
Vivia’s favourite groups are NewJeans and f(x).
Her ultimate biases are NewJean’s Hanni and Minji, and f(x)’s Krystal and Amber.
Vivia’s favourite K-Dramas are True Beauty and Strangers from Hell.
Vivia met ZEROBASEONE’s Matthew in his sister’s dance class with Arianne, and she was able to talk and fist bump him!
Vivia has also met f(x)’s Amber a few times at concerts, and got recognized.
Name: Jeongwon Lee
Position: Junior Graphics Designer
Year: 2
Faculty: Applied Science
Birthday: January 6, 2005
MBTI: ISTJ
Jeongwon Facts:
Jeongwon has been a part of K-Wave since September 2024.
She is majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
Jeongwon’s hobbies include drawing, animating, making comics, listening to/playing/producing music, and making stuff in general!
Jeongwon grew up in a Korean household, so she’s been exposed to K-Culture her whole life.
Jeongwon’s favourite artists are 2nd Gen as a whole (ie. BIG BANG, 2NE1, Wonder Girls, SNSD), and more recently - NMIXX and BOYNEXTDOOR.
Jeongwon’s favourite variety show is Infinite Challenge.
Jeongwon’s recent K-Drama favourites include Tomorrow, Alchemy of Souls, and Revenant, but she will watch anything during exam season.
Jeongwon loves all Korean food, but especially loves Korean ice creams and banana milk!
Jeongwon met Lee Jungjae when she was 3 or 4 years old when he was buying ice cream at a convenience store, although she doesn’t remember this happening anymore.
She also grew up near the entertainment area of Seoul, so she had a lot of random sightings of celebrities.