Filipino Joeffrey Calimag (left), Singaporean Diane Rozells and Thai Utai Uprasen are all members of the Council of Asean Professors in Korea, an advisory committee launched in August last year to promote grassroots-level exchanges and partnership be

When Professor Utai Uprasen first moved to South Korea from Thailand a decade ago, he used to get curious questions about his heritage.

“When I say I’m from Thailand, they’d automatically think I’m a migrant worker in factories,” he told The Straits Times.

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