CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS ON CENTRAL ASIAN ETHNIC KOREANS LIFE IN
SOVIET & POST-SOVIET PERIOD
ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИОННЫЙ АНАЛИЗ ЖИЗНИ ЭТНИЧЕСКИХ КОРЕЙЦЕВ ЦЕН-
ТРАЛЬНОЙ АЗИИ В СОВЕТСКИЙ И ПОСТСОВЕТСКИЙ ПЕРИОДЫ
Dr. Kim, Sangcheol,
Ph.D of Arts, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Rep. of Korea
Сангчел Ким,
профессор Института Центральной Азии университета Ханкук
Южная Корея
I. Introduction
The year 2017 is 80
th
year for remembering ethnic koreans involuntarily migration from russian far
eastern regions to central asian countries. Already passing eighty years this process has been defined as
the term like deportation or settlement, These various contemporary definitions in local ethnic koreans
communities in central asian countries reflect their attitudes or relations with indigenous ethnic groups.
These patterns would be categorized and explained by historical or soviet-russsian cultural factors or
civilizational locations and circumstances between each local ethnic Koreans and major indigenous
groups like Kazakh or Uzbek. Because these two major indigenous groups in Central Asia have been
developed different civilizational paths, which have been effected contemporary patterns of inter-
ethnic situation and attitude between indigenous communities and migrant groups. Periodically
these patterns would be categorized periodically with late imperial – early soviet periods, periods of
stalinism(repressing period), last soviet and post-soviet period.
II. Period 1: from late imperial russian to early soviet
The historical origin of central asian ethnic Koreans had been dated back to the migration of ethnic
Koreans into Russian Far Eastern region from north of korean peninsula in the middle of 19
th
century.
In the last korean dynasty in korean peninsula(chosun dynasty), some peasants of Hamkyung &
Pyungan regions migrated into russian far eastern regions, regardless of official restriction of migration
in Chosun dynasty. Those days Russian empire had been expanded into the far-eastern pacific areas,
which required increasing of residents for stabilizing sovereignty and ruling. In this back ground local
imperial russian executives received and proceeded assimilation for Koreans and Chinese by religious
conversion to Russian orthodox and utilizing russian name in everyday life.
By the process of official integrating(russification) ethnic korean communities in russian far eastern
regions created dual identities: In term of citizenship and Official Religion ethnic Korean migrants
had been sincere Russian citizen, while their linguistic, cultural and historical linkage with original
homeland(korean peninsula) still had been preserved. By these backgrounds some of korean elites and
intellectuals in russian far eastern regions had played as bridge between Russian Empire & Chosun
dynasty and served as high-class advisor of Emperor e ‘Ko-chong’, who conducted administrative
reformation and establishment of diplomatic relations with superpowers in the contemporary world.
This dual identity of ethnic Koreans in Russian far eastern had been preserved until the lenin’s
Soviet period, which was ruled by autonomous governing by each ethnic units with New Economic
Plans(NEP).
With the regime of Stalinism, which was symbolized as collectivization, central planning, repression
and deportation, the identity of ethnic Koreans in soviet Union was forced to change and adapt in
new environments by the deportation to central asian regions in the 1937, by some backgrounds. In
the civilizational backgrounds, the situation of ethnic Koreans before the deportation of 1937, they
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