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- In the late 1930s thousands of Koreans in the Soviet Union were deported to Central Asia, supposedly to prevent further Japanese espionage. These people are now known as Koryo-saram. It is estimated that 100,000 ethnic Koreans still live in the territory of Kazakhstan.
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The majority of Koryo-saram in Central Asia reside in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Korean culture in Kazakhstan is centered in Almaty, the former capital.
- Korean diaspora
Korean diaspora; Total population; 7,325,143 (2021) Regions...
- Kazakhstan–South Korea relations
In the late 1930s thousands of Koreans in the Soviet Union...
- Korean diaspora
The Korean diaspora was initially concentrated in agrarian regions. Today the geographical distribution has significantly changed, and Koreans have transformed from a rural to an urban population. The Kazakhs and Uzbeks who make up the majorities in these countries speak Turkic languages and are Muslim by faith.
Koryo-saram in Russia constitute one of the largest ethnic Korean communities in the Korean diaspora. The majority immigrated from Korea before the division of Korea into North and South, and before the Japanese annexation of Korea.
Nov 21, 2017 · A fallen cross at a cemetery at Bostobe Hill in Ushtobe, Kazakhstan. Photograph by Michael Vince Kim. A mass deportation decades ago brought thousands of Korean immigrants to Central Asia....
As of 2021, two-thirds of approximately half a million post-Soviet Koreans are settled in Central Asia, primarily in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; one-third is in Russia, and a growing community of several tens of thousands is working and residing in South Korea.
