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Koryo-saram (Koryo-mar: 고려사람 / Корё сарам; Russian: Корё сарам; Ukrainian: Корьо-сарам; Uzbek: Корё-сарам / Koryo-saram) or Koryoin (Korean: 고려인) are ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states who descend from Koreans who were living in the Russian Far East.
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- 12,711
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- 174,200
Jul 13, 2015 · Ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union - Russia Beyond. July 13 2015. Andréi Lankov. special to RBTH. Archive photos. Source: RBTH.asia. Follow Russia Beyond on Facebook. When Koreans...
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 ...
- September–October 1937
- Primorsky Krai
- Several estimates, 1) 16,500, 2) 28,200, 3) 40,000, 4) 50,000, (10%–25% mortality rate)
- NKVD
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.
Oct 10, 2023 · At the Hambak village in Incheon, South Korea, where more than 5,000 Koryo Saram - ethnic Koreans from Central Asia - live, some streets and storefronts are named in Russian.
May 18, 2015 · Pak Den Dya, an ethnic Korean living on Russia's Sakhalin Island, poses in front of her home in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. Source: AP Photo/Burt Herman. Follow Russia Beyond on Facebook....
Feb 4, 2024 · February 04, 2024 15:12 GMT. By RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities. Tens of thousands of Koreans were brought over to Sakhalin as conscripted labor by the Japanese during World War II to work on the part...
