Andrea Koreen Garcia Medina (born March 27, 1995) also known as Koreen Medina is a Filipino beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia Pacific Int'l for Miss Intercontinental 2013.[1] She competed at the Miss Intercontinental 2013 pageant in Magdeburg, Germany on December 14, 2013 where she placed 3rd runner-up.[2]
Early life
Before joining pageantry, she was a Pilipinas Got Talent Season 2 contestant, the Grand Prize winner in the Coca-Cola Music Talent Search Finals in 2011, and the Grand Winner of "My Girl," a pageant-like search on ABS-CBN.[3]
2013: Mutya ng Pilipinas and Miss Intercontinental
Koreen won the top title of Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia Pacific International 2013 title for Miss Intercontinental together with co-winner, Angeli Dione Barbas Gomez, Mutya ng Pilipinas Tourism International 2013 for Miss Tourism International 2013 at the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2013 pageant.[4]
She placed 3rd runner-up and chosen as Miss Intercontinental Queen of Asia and Oceania at the Miss Intercontinental 2013 pageant on December 14, 2013 in Magdeburg, Germany.[5]
2015: StarStruck
In 2015, Medina joined the sixth season of StarStruck wherein she was one of the semi-finalists until eventually revealed as part of the Top 28 contestants on the show's pilot episode. She was joined by Klea Pineda and Avery Paraiso in that announcement.[6]