Are there any Koreans in the Kazakhstan national team?

The Koreans are a member of the multi-ethnic family of Central Asia. Like other ethnic groups, the Koreans play their due role for national independence, economic development and ethnic harmony. At present, the entire Central Asian region living nearly 350,000 ethnic Koreans, including Kazakhstan 100,000, Uzbekistan 210,000, Kyrgyzstan 20,000, Turkmenistan 5,000, Tajikistan 1,000-2,000. the Federation of Korean people in Kazakhstan, vice chairman of the Roman said to the reporter: "Central Asia's Korean people are a young people, and the mass settlement of Koreans in Central Asia began in 1937. The largest number of them are in Uzbekistan."

Trains 'sow' Koreans

Koreans began living in the Far East of Tsarist Russia in the mid-19th century, and in 1860 the first Korean couple crossed the border into Tsarist Russia. Since then, ethnic Koreans began to pour into the Far East of Tsarist Russia. after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea, and the environment for survival within Korea further deteriorated. At that time, the Far East was sparsely populated and fertile, so before and after the October Revolution, a large number of ethnic Koreans found a place to live in neighboring countries.

After the outbreak of World War II, the fate of ethnic Koreans living in the Soviet Union's Far East and Primorsky Krai also changed. At the time, the Soviet Union was at war with Germany and Japan, according to Lee Shan, a Russian descendant of ethnic Koreans. In order to make the Soviets alienate and hate the ethnic Koreans, Japan let it be known that because the ethnic Koreans and the Japanese looked alike, Japan bribed some ethnic Koreans to engage in espionage activities in the Far East. These circumstances drew the attention of the then Soviet government. The Koreans were good at farming, and Central Asia at that time was a sparsely populated region with large tracts of uncultivated land. For these and other reasons that remain unknown, in 1937 Stalin signed an order to "relocate" 200,000 ethnic Koreans living in the Far East and Primorsky Krai to Central Asia.

At that time, most Koreans were moved to Kazakhstan, except for a few who went to Uzbekistan and Kirghizia. They traveled 20 kilometers by car and then more than 4,000 kilometers by train, almost from one end of the Soviet Union to the other. When the train approached Ushtobe, in the Almalin region of the Kazakh Republic, it began to "sow" the Koreans: one or two thousand were banished at regular intervals. At that time, the areas where ethnic Koreans were placed were called settlements. Later, the Koreans called these settlements "daughters of the Koreans", because in Russian "point" and "daughter" sound alike. For the Koreans, this is a bitter history of exile.