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  1. Koryo-saram (Koryo-mar: 고려사람; Russian: Корё сарам) or Koryoin (Korean: 고려인) are ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union, who descend from Koreans that were living in the Russian Far East. Koreans first began settling in the Russian Far East in the late 19th century.

  2. The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union (Russian: Депортация корейцев в СССР; Korean: 고려인의 강제 이주) was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Soviet Koreans (Koryo-saram) from the Russian Far East to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet ...

  3. Oct 10, 2023 · When Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was worried that the Koreans in Russia would act as spies for Japan and deported them mainly to bordering Kazakhstan and...

  4. Jun 24, 2024 · Koryo-saram (Korean: 고려사람; Russian: Корё сарам), as Wikipedia explains, are ethnic Koreans of the former USSR, who descend from Koreans that were living in the Russian far east. Migration of Koreans to the Russian Empire.

  5. Jul 13, 2015 · When ‘peninsular Koreans’ encounter ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union, they are often surprised to find out that almost none of these people are now fluent Korean speakers.

  6. Sep 22, 2018 · Koreans from the Russian Far East were the first in the USSR to experience a forced expulsion from their places of permanent residence. This was followed by the deportation of dozens of people, including Germans, Kurds, Crimean Tatars, Poles and Chechens.

  7. Apr 24, 2017 · Governors of the Russian Far East regarded Koreans, who started migrating to Russia from the 1860s, as the most desirable Asians, and preferred them to the Chinese. This approach was backed by...

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