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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 that descend from Koreans who were living in the Russian Far East.
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
Koryo-saram ( Russian: Корё сарам; Koryo-mar: 고려사람), the name ethnic Koreans in the Post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves. Approximately 500,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former USSR, primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia.
Oct 10, 2023 · Today, there are an estimated 500,000 Koryo Saram scattered across several former Soviet Union states. At the Hambak village in Incheon, South Korea, where more than 5,000 Koryo Saram - ethnic...
Jul 13, 2015 · Andréi Lankov. special to RBTH. Archive photos. Source: RBTH.asia. Follow Russia Beyond on Pinterest. When Koreans arrived in the Russian Far East between 1860 and 1920 only a small...
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...
