Background
Kim"s father was a Soviet Korean, the son of a man who immigrated to the Russian Far East in 1908. His mother was of Russian ethnicity.
Kim"s father was a Soviet Korean, the son of a man who immigrated to the Russian Far East in 1908. His mother was of Russian ethnicity.
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
He claims to be a descendant of 15th-century Korean author Kim Si-seup. In 1948, his family moved to the Russian Far East and Sakhalin, where he lived until 1957 before entering an art school in Moscow.
He was born in Sergievka, Tulkibas District, Chimkent Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (today South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan) and spent his early years there.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.