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] 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] 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.
[2][3] As part of the cast, along with more serious discussions, he shared his old-fashioned dress style of bell-bottoms,[12][13] entertained with a song duet with Baek Jiyoung,[14][15] and told stories of growing up in Russia.
[18][19][20][21] In April 2015, he and Non-Summit cast member Tyler Rasch, both Honorary Culture Sharing Ambassadors of the Korea Foundation, attended a ceremony for the new "Koreans and Foreigners Together" program.