I’m Gergana. I live in Bulgaria (my favorite spot in the world), work across 3 time zones, and spend some of my evenings watching Chinese drama and not only.
By day I’m a CRO and Head of Global Marketing at a global Asian language solutions company, which means I think professionally about how content travels between cultures, what gets lost in that journey, and what it costs when the translation is technically correct but emotionally empty. It turns out that’s not just a work question. It’s the question that runs through almost everything I find interesting.
In the last couple of years while working I also somehow managed to get my Master Degree in Fine Arts Pedagogy & Sculpture specialty, which teaches you to look at negative space as carefully as the thing itself.
This was a completely out of the blue decision of mine that built on top of my Engineering degree in Automation I have from before. Now I combine them both and I notice what’s missing from two very different angles – structure and aesthetics. I notice when something should be there and isn’t.
I also fly (with a paraglider). There’s something about being in the air, the particular quality of attention it requires, the way it shrinks everything else to the right size, that I keep coming back to. The sky has its own category on this blog, which will take me much longer to create than the CDrama, because some things deserve their own space and time to reflect on.
I’ve created “The G. Blog” as my place to think out loud whenever I feel like it. Marketing, career, life, the view from above. And recently, something new: Chinese and Asian culture, specifically the gap between what Eastern storytelling actually is and what the world outside it currently gets to experience. I started watching C-dramas out of genuine curiosity and found myself unable to stop thinking about what I was seeing. The emotional architecture, the layering in the performances, the cultural logic underneath stories that Western television simply doesn’t tell. So I started writing about it. Not as an industry observer. As someone who watched something and felt something and wanted to understand why.
That’s what this blog is – my genuine observation first rambles, analysis when it earns its place and the occasional opinion, held carefully.
I’m glad you’re here.