Vladimir Tikhonov was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union in 1973. He received a master’s degree in Korean ancient history at St. Petersburg National University of Russia in 1994 and was granted a doctorate from Moscow State University with the same major in 1996. He worked as a lecturer at Russian State Humanitarian University (1996) and a full-time contract-based instructor at Kyunghee University in Suwon (1997-2000). He was an associate professor at the University of Oslo (2000-2006), and since 2006 has been a full professor at the same university. Tikhonov is mainly interested in areas including the early history of Korean nationalism and modern history of Korean Buddhism. His major publications include Korean books such as Your Korea 1 (2001), The History which Betrayed Me (2003), The Myth of the Survival of the Fittest (2005), More to the Left to the Left (2009), There Is No Country for You (2012), and Be the Leftists (2012). He is Korean by nationality and a member of the Korean Labor Party.
