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(Korean; 외국인) meaning foreigner or alien. Used frequently in daily life by Koreans to refer to non-Korean people who are visiting or living in Korea, particularly people who aren't East Asian. The related slang term oekuk-saran modifies correct Korean -gug to -kuk to imitate a common mispronunciation by foreigners. This may be considered ...
During the August to September 1945 Soviet military campaign to liberate Korea, Koryo-saram Chŏng Sangjin was the only ethnic Korean who had a combat role on the Soviet side. He notably participated in the Seishin Operation. [29] [30] Chŏng and a number of other Koryo-saram joined North Korea after the division of Korea.
The Karatal District Korean History Center [a] is a local and ethnic history museum dedicated to the Korean community in Karatal District. It is located in Ushtobe, Kazakhstan. [1] Koreans of the mainland former Soviet Union are called Koryo-saram. They descend from populations of Koreans who were forced to move from the Russian Far East to ...
Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People is an American documentary film premiered on October 29, 2006. [1] It was directed by Y. David Chung and Matt Dibble. The film focuses on Koryo-saram : ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union who were deported to Central Asia in 1937.
The enclave was not the only one to use this name; several other Korean settlements in Primorskaya Oblast and Jiandao ("Gando" in Korean) went by this name. It holds an important place in the history of Koryo-saram (ethnic Koreans of the mainland former Soviet Union), and is now widely considered a hub of the Korean independence movement .
In October 2011, a night school called "Neomeo" (너머) for learning the Korean language was created for Koryo-saram in the area. [5] The school was founded by Kim Seung-ryeok ( 김승력 ). Kim later said that he founded the school because he had heard that Koryo-saram were encountering difficulties and discrimination in South Korean society ...
German Kim, head of the Department of Korean Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan, and a leading scholar in the history of Koryo saram. Boris Dmitrievich Pak , Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Honored Scientific Worker of Russian Federation, academician of Russian Academy of Humanities, Main Research Scholar Institute of ...
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 Koryo-sarams (Koryoin, also known as Soviet Koreans) 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 ...