«Тарихтан тағылым – өткенге тағзым»
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koreans easy integration into kazakhstani poly-ethnic communities(based on nomadic tolerances). And
young generations began to move to the industrial cities in Ural/Siberia Volga regions( not Moscow or
Saint Petersburg) with higher education and Job recruiting.
For the ethnic Kaz-koreans in 1940-60s were required to active social integration after deportation
of 1937, restructuring of community by Soviet-Russian culture with prohibition of learning and using
mother tongue in everyday life, recovering agricultural vacuum in the collectivization and creating
new soviet (multi-ethnic) pattern Agriculture communities. With this
social requirements ethnic
Kaz-koreans identity could be categorized as active Central Asian Soviet Sedentary Farmers in Rice-
cultivating Kholhozes and experts in various agricultural sectors in Kazakhstan with many labor heroes
in Rice-Cultivating (Avangard Kholhoz: Kim, Man-sam, The 3rd International Kholhoz: Chai, Den-
hak, Dalyvostok Kholhoz: Shin, Hyun-Mun). And in the 1950s ethnic korean kholhozes reestablished
as multi-ethnic Kholhozes and it symbolized as active integration into local multi-ethnic structures.
In the post-1960s identity of ethnic Kaz-koreans changed to the image of Korean Specialists in non-
agricultural sectors, including as famous administrators,
sports stars, and famous ethnic artists.
V. Conclusion
Today Koreans in Central Asia are the most urbanized ethnic group
in both Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan, as more than 80% of the Korean population live in cities. According to the 1989 census,
the number of Koreans living in the Soviet Union was 439,000, the bulk of which lived in Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, and Russia, with more than 80% of that in Kazakhstan, and based on an analysis of Kazakh
‘areas of compact living’, the majority of Kazakh-Koreans today live in urban areas in the central and
southern regions of Kazakhstan, most notably KzylOrda, Karaghandy, Dzhambul, and Almaty, and
most live in urban areas.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation adopted a decree on the
restoration of ethnic Korean rights. Under the new decree, the State permitted ‘individual and voluntary
return to the former place of residence’ for deportees, and Russian citizenship could be obtained by any
migrants from outside Russia. The decree also provided Korean returnees with ‘residential houses and
lands for farming and other activities,’ if they desired.
Briefly ethnic koreans preserved dual identity between late imperial Russia & early soviet periods.
After deportation central asian ethnic Korean communities experienced diversifications by settling
areas, changing of family structure by location & structure of communities,
changing of cultural
orientation for integrating soviet society. In the post-soviet periods both ethnic korean communities
in central asian countries has been clarified two different ways: emigration from sedentary local
community and stable integration into poly-ethnic local communities by nomadic tolerances.