Carmen Kong, marketing assistant in a pharmaceutical laboratory

Back for a few weeks off in Tahiti, Carmen Kong now works in a pharmaceutical laboratory in Paris as a marketing assistant. She was voted Miss Dragon 1989 when she was only 17 years old.

“I was born in Hong Kong, I arrived in Tahiti at the age of 11. A former student of La Mennais college, I obtained my A3 baccalaureate (letters and arts) at Gauguin high school. Then, direction France for studies of visual arts at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne ”, testifies Carmen Kong.

She decides to stay in Paris to start working life and has the opportunity to work in the Ipsen pharmaceutical laboratory, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt. An independent biopharmaceutical group founded by a Frenchman in 1929, Henri Beaufour, and today specializing in the marketing of drugs in three therapeutic areas: oncology, neurosciences and rare diseases.

“I came back to Tahiti for a homecoming. An opportunity to see my friends again, but also to greet all the people who allowed me to be the ambassador of the Chinese community at the fenua, in particular Betty and Robert Tanseau, Danielle Livine, Jacqueline Coiffure, my chaperone Éliane and many others. others. I really enjoyed my Parisian life, but today I feel the desire to return to the homeland of my mother, born in Raiatea, ”she says.

When she was a young girl, Carmen did not speak a word of French. To remedy this, she had taken small classes for accelerated learning. With the help of the Frogier family, Axel and Dora and the children, she was able to quickly master the basics of the French language.

“In 2016, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology while working, which took a lot of time and energy. A rewarding sacrifice and a rewarding experience because I had the opportunity to do an internship supervised by a psychoanalyst and a neuropsychologist, in a center dedicated to people with degenerative diseases. This allowed me to set up personalized therapeutic workshops by supporting three patients with different pathologies, ”she concludes.

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