Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mithridates]

A few months ago I started a thread on places to use Korean when not in Korea, and put all the information on this page here:

http://wiki.galbijim.com/Using_Korean_abroad

I noticed last month though an interesting sign attached to a park fence asking for book donations for Koreans in Kazakhstan. It turns out that 0.7% or so of the population there is Korean and they're descendants of Koreans sent to work by Stalin. There are also quite a few in Sakhalin as well apparently, and who knows where else. I'm hoping that a few people will be able to fill in the missing information on these parts (or anywhere else), as I won't be getting to Kazakhstan or Sakhalin soon. What about Germany? I remember a pretty large gathering of people in red shirts there during the last world cup, but those could all have just been students.

[R-Seoul]

I've met a couple of gypos from Germany they both came from the Rheinland area. Apparently most originally came to Germany to work either as Nurses or Miners in the 60s & 70s.

[mithridates]

Just found the images of the book drive for Koreans in Kazakhstan:

[Hater Depot]

I used to know a dentist who makes a yearly trip to give free services to the Koreans living there. I guess they are quite poor.

[Woland]

One of my best friends in Leningrad when I was there was a Korean from Alma-Ata who was the daughter of Koreans sent there from Sakhalin. She didn't talk much about it, but was stuck forever with outsider status in the university where we worked.

A great woman and a truly brave one - she was the lone person at the university who refused to sign the petition denouncing the art historian Mark Etkind for testifying for the defense in the Sinyavsky-Daniil trial. As a result, she was not just an outsider, but an outsider who could never be promoted, despite the fact that she was one of the best professors in the department.

[VirginIslander]

I have read and heard that there are lots in Mexico and Latin America. Wikipedia says that there up to 50,000 Koreans in Guatemala City! But that is not a realible source. However, I am going there in a few months so I will post some news after my return.

Also, I heard about thousands of Korean farmers who went to work on Mexican farms like the Japanese did in Brazil.

[tomato]

I'm in a pickle: I would like to go to Italy but I don't want to leave Korea.
I asked around and found that Rome and Naples each have a Korean neighborhood.

[huffdaddy]

[Woland]

[Travelous Maximus]

[Young FRANKenstein]