There are as many as 300,000 Koreans living in Central Asia. Where did they come from?

No one can imagine that Koreans living in the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula are relatively concentrated, and there are nearly 300,000 Koreans living in Central Asia. These trends of Koreans in Central Asia were caused by the measures taken by the Soviet Union to forcibly relocate ethnic minorities in China. After the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet government forcibly moved ethnic minorities to Central Asia, including Koreans living in the Far East, in order to prevent them from being linked with the enemy. According to relevant research data, there are about 6,543.8+0.5 million Koreans living in Uzbekistan, 6,543.8+0.5 million Koreans living in Kazakhstan, 25,000 Koreans living in Kyrgyzstan, 654.38+0.00 Koreans living in Majikestan and 3,000 Koreans living in Turkmenistan in Central Asia. According to such statistics, the total number of Koreans living in Central Asia can reach about 300,000. Why did so many Koreans migrate from the Far East to Central Asia? This should start with the forced migration of ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union. With the decline of the Qing Dynasty in the middle of18th century, the greedy Russian empire inevitably occupied more than square kilometers of land north of Heilongjiang and west of Wusuli River in China, which became the Far East of the Soviet Union. Because the Far East is directly connected with the Korean Peninsula and the northeast of China, Koreans began to move to the Far East in large numbers for various reasons, such as living in poverty and being squeezed by the Japanese. By 1937, the number of Koreans in the Far East had reached180,000. At the same time, the outbreak of the Lugouqiao Incident marked the beginning of Japan's war of aggression against China. This also made the Japanese Kwantung Army, which occupied the northeast as early as 193 1, further grow and become the most well-trained and well-equipped imperial flower in the Japanese army. As we all know, Japan has always had great ideas about the Soviet Union. Japan has always wanted to attack the Soviet Union to the north and occupy Siberia, which is sparsely populated and rich in resources. In order to solve the dilemma of the lack of domestic resources, I believe Stalin is well aware of the Japanese ambitions. In the face of aggressive Nazi Germany and malicious Japanese army, Stalin decided to solve the Far East problem first, so as to prevent the Soviet Union from falling into two fronts. Stalin made a decision to move the ethnic minorities in the Far East to Central Asia in order to target Japan. As for why this decision was made, it was because the Japanese had ruled the Korean peninsula for more than 40 years. In such a long time, Koreans even began to agree with Japanese rule. Stalin was worried that the North Koreans in the Far East would spy on the Soviet military intelligence for the Japanese, which would pose a great threat to the Far East, so he simply moved all the ethnic minorities in the Far East. Koreans in the Far East were forced to move, and these Koreans were moved as distrust for fear of leadership. Their rights as citizens have been greatly restricted, many North Korean schools have been closed and the use of the Korean language has been restricted. It was not until 1950 that the Soviet government began to restore Korean citizenship. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, many ethnic minorities who originally migrated to Central Asia began to move back abroad.

However, Koreans in Central Asia did not move back to the Korean Peninsula or northeast China. The reason for this phenomenon is that these Koreans forget their mother tongue. Even if a few people know their mother tongue, they can't reach the current standard Korean language on the Korean Peninsula and basically can't communicate with the Korean people today. What's more, Koreans in Central Asia have left their homeland for a century, and their blood relationship has long been cut off. Therefore, they choose to live in Central Asia. Of course, these Koreans have become a bridge between the Korean Peninsula and Central Asia. Korean enterprises can become trading partners of Central Asian countries after Russia, and these Central Asian Koreans have played an important role.