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“Koryo-Saram in America: From Central Asia to a New Diaspora”
Source: Novastan — “From Central Asia to America: The Koryo-Saram Diaspora Finds a New Voice”
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Koryo Saram Library (Библиотека Корё Сарам)
Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the Koryo Saram Library is an online reading room and bookshop dedicated to preserving the creative and cultural heritage of the Koryo-saram community — books, newspapers, documents, photographs, and audio/video materials spanning generations. The site is organized into deep, browsable sections: pre-revolutionary history, the Soviet period (including a dedicated section on…
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“Together Let’s Talk about Share Koryo In: The History of Koryo Saram Living among Us” by Im Young Sang, Kim Seung Ruk, and Jeong Mak Le
A collaborative work introducing Koryo Saram history to a general readership. Source: https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000214607529
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“Wandering Land” (떠도는 땅) by Kim Soom
Kim Soom’s 280-page novel Wandering Land (Eunhaengnamu, 2020) reimagines the 1937 deportation from inside the freight cars themselves. The story follows roughly 27 Koryo-saram — including a pregnant woman named Geumsil and a Russian-born boy named Michka — packed into a windowless boxcar for a month-long journey from the Russian Far East to Kazakhstan. Kim spent four…
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“Koryo In, Koreans” by Kim Jin Suk
A book examining Koryo Saram identity and history, listed on Kyobobook. Source: https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000001847998
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“Squirrel” (Белка) by Anatoly Kim
Squirrel, first published in 1984, quickly became a cult classic of late-Soviet literature. Its author, Anatoly Kim, is a Russian novelist of Koryo-saram descent, born to a Korean family in the USSR. To pass Soviet censorship, the novel was framed as a “fairy-tale novel” — but it’s better understood as a work of magical realism,…
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“Korean Diaspora” by Kim Ji-youn
Documentary photographer Kim Ji-youn has spent more than two decades photographing Korean minority communities across Asia. Her work began in the 1990s in northeastern China, where she documented malnourished North Korean orphans who had crossed the border in search of food. From there, her focus widened to ethnic Koreans living as permanent outsiders in their…