US-based Korean vlogger speaks Hindi in a Bihari accent

  • 01 Jul - 07 Jul, 2023
  • Mag The Weekly
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Yechan Charles Lee, 28, is Korean, but his Instagram account is flooded with clips of him speaking or singing Hindi tunes. Lee has been creating social media videos for more than a year and describes himself as an Indian digital creator. When a friend recorded him speaking in an Indian regional dialect unique to the state of Bihar, he recently went viral on Instagram. He stunned Indians with his fluency, and the video received millions of views. The impromptu video was shot when Lee, who currently resides in Iowa, US, visited his friend Prashant recently in Bihar, according to Gulf News. “I have a Bihari accent because I grew up in Patna. I spent 20 years living there going to local Indian schools. I went to Patna (the capital city of Bihar) in India with my parents at the age of one (around 1996). Both my parents are Korean, so even though I was born in the US and grew up in India, I think of myself as a Korean, maybe a ‘Bihari Korean’ to be more specific… haha. I learned the language naturally as I interacted with friends from school and people in my locality” the boy told the tabloid.

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