Ilya Belyakov
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Ilya Belyakov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 August 1982 |
| Citizenship | South Korean[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Television personality, Medical interpreter |
Ilya Belyakov (Russian: Илья Беляков, Korean: 일리야 벨랴코프, born 26 August 1982) is a South Korean of Russian origin who lives and performs in South Korea as a television personality, medical interpreter, professional linguist and language teacher.[2][3][4]
Early life
He was born in Vladivostok, a port city of the Russian Far East, an approximate two-hour flight from Seoul, where he majored in Korean language at Far Eastern Federal University.[5]
Education and work in South Korea
He arrived in South Korea for the first time in 2003, and received the highest score, for a Russian, on the language proficiency test TOPIK. He completed a master's degree at the Yonsei University Korean Language Institute as a scholarship student supported by the Korea Foundation, and in 2015 was studying for a Ph.D in anthropology and linguistics at the University of South Carolina. He is fluent in Japanese, English, French and Spanish, as well as Korean.[5]
He started working at Samsung's global human resources department in 2010.[4][6]
He is a contributing columnist for Korea.net, sharing anecdotal and cultural perspectives as a Russian living in Seoul.[7][8][9][10]