Perhaps you can't imagine that there are many Koreans in central Asian countries today. In 1937, due to the outbreak of World War II in East Asia, the Soviet government feared that under the guise of the Koreans, Japanese spies would infiltrate the Far East and threaten the security of the Soviet Union. On August 21, 1937, according to the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Bolshevik League, Koreans from part of the Far East were transferred to the southern regions of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the third or fourth generation of these Korean immigrants, who are still living in the lands of Asia, have fully embraced Russian as their mother tongue, and some of them can even communicate in the local language of Central Asia. Among the many ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union, Koreans have always been a very active and hard-working people. There are some North Koreans who have made great achievements and won great prestige. These celebrities from Kazakhstan are All Koreans, let Xiaobian take you to know about it!
Gennady Golovkin is one of the best professional boxers of our time. Gennady's father was a Russian miner, but his mother was North Korean. When he was still in kindergarten, his two older brothers, Sergei and Vadim, encouraged him to practice boxing and compete in the ring in the future. Both Golovkin and twin brother Maxim eventually went into the ring to continue the brothers' dreams. In 2006, Golovkin managed to become a professional player.
Vladimir King was Kazakhstan's richest man last year, and his capital comes from the extraction and processing of non-ferrous metals. Born in 1960 in a small village called Slavyanka, he worked as an engineer, worked for the Soviet-era district committee, and then interned in a business in a Western country. After returning to China, he became chairman of a large metal processing company and then participated in the privatization of the company.
Olga Kim, designer and founder of successful brands in the jewelry and clothing sector, is now one of the most successful women in Kazakhstan. She started her business with the founding of a small retail store in a shopping mall in Almaty. Her thousand dollars in start-up capital was provided by her father, a small entrepreneur. But now, the pretty girl's father had begun to ask her for advice. She owns the Brosh trademark, a brand that provides rare jewelry to Women of Kazakhstan.
Figure skater Dennis Tan won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and is ready to continue to create the pinnacle of his sporting career. Dennis initially trained in his native Kazakhstan, then traveled to Moscow and finally settled in California, where he found American coaches. Still, he often returns to his hometown and even becomes a producer of an ice show in Kazakhstan, in which figure skaters from around the world participate. Unfortunately, in a fortuitous clash with a robber, someone pulled out a knife and stabbed him, leaving twenty-five-year-old Dennis out of this world.
The famous restaurateur Natalia Tsai is the daughter of Kazakh boxing coach Yuri Andreevich Tsai, who engages in business and politics after completing sports activities. The girl herself is a very intelligent person, because she made Korean cuisine popular all over the country without her father's financial support. Relying on traditional Korean cuisine, she has found supporters throughout Kazakhstan, even surpassing the achievements of many Japanese and Italian chefs.