Huyn-Gwi Park

Over the past two decades of the post-Cold War period, ethnic Koreans have been a small but significant presence in the Russian Far East. However, they remain largely unstudied, as this region tends to fall in a gap between Eurasian and East Asian studies. This is the first monograph in English to investigate the contemporary social life of Koreans in this complex borderland based on extended ethnographic fieldwork. Arriving from northern Korea in the late 19th century, Korean immigrants made the Russian Far East their home as a refuge from endemic poverty in the Chosun Kingdom and later from Japanese colonialism. They developed this