Whereas my previous blog post outlined the lives and livelihoods of ethnic Koreans in the Russian Far East prior to their exile in 1937, my next two posts will shift gears slightly, focusing more on the status of the Korean language among Koryo saram throughout the past century. This post will track the maintenance of […]
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Migration, Exile, and Homeland: Koryo Saram, Part I
The Soviet Era often brings talk of the multi-ethnic nature of the Union. Certainly, its vast territorial expanse would encompass the homelands of many indigenous Eurasians. One group that often sits at the periphery of discussions of both the Soviet Union and Eurasia is the Koreans. In 1937, 170,000 of them – nearly the entire […]