Ha Il
Robert Bradley Holley, known by his Korean name Ha Il, is a US-born, now-naturalized South Korean lawyer and TV personality. He arrived in South Korea in 1978 as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but immediately fell in love with the country and the people. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, and later, he graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in law after studying as an exchange student at Yonsei University. He founded the Kwangju Foreign School in 1996, and around the early 2000s, he began appearing in many TV shows, becoming well-known for his fluent and well-spoken Korean. In 1997, he relinquished his US nationality and became a South Korean citizen. In 2019, he was arrested on the charges of methamphetamine use and was sentenced to a one-year prison sentence (that was suspended for two years) and 40 hours of drug treatment. In 2020, his mother passed away in the US, but he was unable to attend as his visa was cancelled after the trial. After 3 years away from TV, he reappeared on an MBN special alongside his longtime friend Sayuri and revealed he suffered from a rare cancer called malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor and how Sayuri helped him in the recovery process. (Source: Korean = NamuWiki || Translation = MyDramaList) Edit Biography
