Park Seulki Rhea is coming to Otakon 2024

Park Seulki Rhea will be a guest at Otakon 2024. She is a language and cultural educator, content creator, social worker, actor, and educational anthropologist.

Born and raised in South Korea as the daughter of a famous Korean manhwaga (or comic book creator), Park has always been interested in the power of culture and language. With such interests, she majored in linguistics and literature in Ewha Women’s University and then flew to NYC to delve into her interest even more, majoring in East Asian Regional Studies and Linguistics and Anthropological Education in graduate school at Columbia University. While living in NYC, Park has taught communicative English class and Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) at Columbia University.

After coming back to South Korea due to her father’s sudden passing, Park’s passion for cultural and language education never withered. She earned a social worker license and a teaching KFL license, teaching the Korean and English languages to students with diverse sociocultural backgrounds in South Korea. Meanwhile, she worked on building her father’s legacy as the creator of the legendary Korean manhwa character Dokkotak, and reviving her father’s works, which were extremely popular all over Korean society during the 1970s through the 1990s.

This year, Park is attending Otakon as a Korean cultural educator. She will be hosting three sessions of learning Korean languages (Hangul and simple Korean conversation) and one session of how to travel around interesting Korean spots.

Otakon 2024 will be held from August 2 to August 4 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.