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Korean Russian or Russian Korean may refer to: South Korea-Russia relations. Russia-North Korea relations. Cyrillization of Korean. Russians in Korea. Ethnic Koreans in the former USSR. Koryo-saram, 19th-century immigrants to the Russian Far East who were later deported to Central Asia.
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Immigration to the Russian Far East and Siberia
The Joseon Dynasty of Korea declined during the nineteenth century. A small population of wealthy elite owned the farmlands in the country, poor peasants finding difficulty to survive. Koreans leaving the country during that time moved toward Russia, as the Qing Dynasty sealed border with Korea. Many peasants, considering Siberia a land with a better standard of living, migrated there. As early as 1863, migration had already begun, 13 households recorded near Novukorut Bay.Those numbers rose...
Deportation to Central Asia
Between 1937 and 1939, Stalin deported over 172,000 Koreans to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, on the official premise that the Koreans might act as spies for Japan. Russia purged and executed many community leaders, a decade and a half passing before Russia permitted Koryo-saram to travel outside of Central Asia. Up until the era of glasnost, Russia prohibited Koryo-saram from speaking openly of the deportations. The deportees cooperated to build irrigation works and start rice farms; within thre...
Scholars estimated that as of 2002, roughly 470,000 Koryo-saram lived in the Commonwealth of Independent States, including 198,000 in Uzbekistan, 125,000 in Russia, 105,000 in Kazakhstan, 19,000 in Kyrgyzstan, 9000 in Ukraine, 6000 in Tajikistan, 3000 in Turkmenistan, and 5000 in other constituent republics.
After their arrival in Central Asia, the Koryo-saram quickly established a way of life different from that of neighboring peoples. They set up irrigation works and became known throughout the region as rice farmers.They interacted little with the nomadic peoples around them, and focused on education. Although they soon ceased to wear traditional Ko...
In Cultural Fields
1. Alexander Kan, Russian-language fiction writer. 2. Anatoly Kim, Russian-language fiction writer. 3. German Kim, head of the Department of Korean Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan, and a leading scholar in the history of Koryo saram. 4. Nikolai Shin, Uzbekistani painter 5. Lavrenti Son, Russian and Korean-language playwright 6. Yuliy Kim, singer, songwriter 7. Roman Kim, one of the top contestants on Kazakhstani entertainment programme SuperStar KZ 8. Victor Tsoi, lead singer of t...
In Sports
1. Nellie Kim, Olympic gold medal gymnast, born in Shurab, Tajikistanto a Korean father and Tatar mother 2. Kostya Tszyu, Australian boxer of Russian, Korean and Mongol descent, born in Serov, Russia
In Politics
1. Valery Kan, the youngest person ever elected to the Ussuriysk Duma 2. Alexandra Kim, the first Korean communist 3. Mikhail Kim, delegate to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 4. Georgy Kim, Kazakhstan's Minister of Justice. 5. Kim Gyong Chun (金擎天/김경천), leading anti-White Army partisan leader in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. 6. Kim Jong-il, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, born in Vyatskoye.
Bergsten, C. Fred, and In-bŏm Chʻoe. 2003. Korean diaspora in the world economy. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics. ISBN 9780881323580.Kim, German N. 2003. Koryo Saram, or Koreans of the Former Soviet Union: In the Past and Present. Amerasia Journal29 (3):23. OCLC: 98152939Kim, German N., and Julian Ross Paul King. 2001. Koryô Saram : Koreans in the former USSR.New Haven, CT: East Rock Institute. OCLC: 63132652Lee, Kwang-kyu. 2000. Overseas Koreans. Seoul: Jimoondang. ISBN 8988095189North Koreans in Russia consist mainly of three groups: international students, guest workers, and defectors and refugees. A 2006 study by Kyung Hee University estimated their total population at roughly 10,000.
In Seoul, a "Little Russia" began to form in Jung-gu 's Gwanghui-dong, near Dongdaemun, in the late 1980s. Roughly 50,000 people from post-Soviet states were estimated to live in the area in 2004, down from 70,000 several years previously due to deportations of illegal immigrants. [2] In Busan, Russians are concentrated in the former "Texas ...
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Apr 24, 2017 · A brief period of Russian diplomatic and political activity in Korea 1895-1905 might have been driven by Russia’s imperialist schemes and ambitions, but it also produced a number of...
Koreans Arrive in Russia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries. The first Korean immigrants to Russia began arrived 1863 as the czars were opening up Siberia and the Far East to settlement and people were needed to provide cheap labor to develop the virtually uninhabited land.
Sakhalin Koreans ( Russian: Сахалинские корейцы/ Sakhalinskie Koreytsi or Корейцы Сахалина/ Koreytsi Sakhalina; Korean: 사할린 한국인/ Sahallin Hangugin) denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island who trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s ...
