Vitalii Kim

Vitalii Oleksandrovych Kim is a Ukrainian businessman and politician. He was born on March 13, 1981 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Kim's father was a basketball coach of Koryo-saram ancestry. Kim graduated from Mykolaiv Gymnasium No. 2 and Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding with a degree in enterprise economics. He engaged in entrepreneurial activity, and in 2019, he became a volunteer for the Servant of the People party. Kim was appointed governor of Mykolaiv Oblast by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2020. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he gained attention for his daily video updates on the situation in Mykolaiv Oblast. Kim is married and has three children. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, some French, and Korean.