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Koryo-saram (Koryo-mar: 고려사람, Корё сарам; Russian: Корё сарам; Ukrainian: Корьо-сарам, romanized: Kor'o-saram; 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. In 1937, the ...
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Sakhalin Koreans (Korean: 사할린 한인; Russian: Сахалинские корейцы, romanized: Sakhalinskiye koreytsy) are Russian citizens and residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island, who can trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the ...
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Apr 24, 2017 · Andréi Lankov. special to RBTH. The Russian authorities in 19th century Vladivostok had a positive impression of Korean migrants. Archive Photo. Follow Russia Beyond on Telegram. Governors...
Oct 10, 2023 · Asia. ‘I consider myself Korean’: Koryo Saram, ethnic Koreans in Central Asia, keep their roots alive. Today, there are an estimated 500,000 Koryo Saram scattered across several former...
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...
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 ...
Jul 13, 2015 · July 13 2015. Andréi Lankov. special to RBTH. Archive photos. Source: RBTH.asia. Follow Russia Beyond on Facebook. When Koreans arrived in the Russian Far East between 1860 and 1920 only a...
