Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Korea. The majority of Koreans live in the two Korean nation states of North and South Korea, which are collectively referred to as Korea. As of 2021, an estimated 7.3 million ethnic Koreans resided outside of Korea. Koreans are also an officially recognized ethnic minority in other Asian countries, including China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan. Outside of Asia, sizeable Korean communities have formed in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada, and Oceania.
The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union 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 leader Joseph Stalin and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov. 124 trains were used to resettle them 6,400 km to Central Asia. The reason was to stem "the infiltration of Japanese espionage into the Far Eastern Krai", as Koreans were at the time subjects of the Empire of Japan, which was the Soviet Union's rival. However, some historians regard it as part of Stalin's policy of "frontier cleansing". Estimates based on population statistics suggest that between 16,500 and 50,000 deported Koreans died from starvation, exposure, and difficulties adapting to their new environment in exile.
Meredith Jung-En Woo is an American academic and author. She is a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. She served as President of Sweet Briar College, and is the former director of the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundation in London. She also served as the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Koryo-saram are ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states that descend from Koreans who were living in the Russian Far East during the late 19th century.
German Nikolaevich Kim is Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally recognized scholars on ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union: Koryo-saram.
Koryo-mar is a dialect of Korean spoken by Koryo-saram, ethnic Koreans who live in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is descended from the Hamgyŏng dialect and multiple other varieties of Northeastern Korean. Koryo-mar is often reported as difficult to understand by speakers of standard Korean; this may be compounded by the fact that the majority of Koryo-saram today use Russian and not Korean as their first language.
Korean Russian or Russian Korean may refer to:
Sakhalin Koreans 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 present-day South Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese colonial era.
Nikolai Shin was an Uzbekistani painter of Korean descent, sometimes referred to by Korean newspapers as the "Picasso of Asia".
South Korea–Ukraine relations are foreign relations between South Korea and Ukraine. Diplomatic Relations were established on February 10, 1992. South Korea has an embassy in Kyiv. Ukraine has an embassy in Seoul.
Gwanghui-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Jung-gu in Seoul, South Korea.
There is a population of ethnic Koreans or Korean nationals in Ukraine. A significant group among them are ethnic Koreans called Koryo-saram: these people arrived in the former Soviet Union during the Japanese colonial period and spread throughout the region especially after their forced migration in 1937. Another group is the Sakhalin Koreans, who lived on the island of Sakhalin and are often considered culturally distinct from other Koryo-saram. Finally, there are also South Korean expatriates in Ukraine.
Morkovcha, also known as Korean-style carrots or Korean carrot salad, is a spicy marinated carrot salad. It is a Koryo-saram variant of kimchi.
The Koryo Ilbo is a newspaper published in Korean and Russian from Almaty, Kazakhstan, for ethnic Koreans living in the former Soviet Union. First published in 1923 as the March 1st Newspaper, it changed its name to Sŏnbong, then to Lenin Kichi in 1938, and finally to Koryo Ilbo after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is notable for being one of the oldest Korean-language newspapers and the oldest active outside of the Korean peninsula, having celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023. It was also for decades the only Korean-language newspaper with nationwide availability in the Soviet Union and a significant promoter of the literature of Soviet Ethnic Koreans, or Koryo-saram, during a period when regional languages were suppressed by the government.
Koryo-saram are ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union. They have a distinct style of cuisine that is descended from Korean cuisine and influenced by the cuisines of various countries they have lived in. Sakhalin Koreans are a similar group who descend from Koreans on the island of Sakhalin, although they are often considered distinct from other Koryo-saram. They have also contributed dishes that have become adopted into the wider Koryo-saram cuisine.
Ddaetgol Village (Korean: 땟골마을), alternatively Ttaetgol Village, is an enclave of Koryo-saram in Seonbu-dong, Danwon District, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. In Russian, the area goes by Ttekkol Samgori, where "samgori" is Korean for "three-way intersection". Around August 2022, around 7,000 people in the village were Koryo-saram. Along with Gwangju Koryoin Village, it is one of the largest Koryo-saram enclaves in the country.
The Korean Theatre or Koryo Theatre is a national theatre that specializes in the culture of Korea in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is operated by and associated with the Koryo-saram community: ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union. The theatre troupe has operated since 1932, making it the oldest still-running Korean theatre troupe in the world.
Hanaan is a 2011 Uzbek-South Korean drama film by director Ruslan Pak.
Sen-bong is a 1946 Soviet-Kazakh documentary film.
