Comments on: Asian History Carnival #15 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2007/06/asian-history-carnival-15/ The Korea History Group Blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: J. Otto Pohl http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2007/06/asian-history-carnival-15/comment-page-1/#comment-28762 J. Otto Pohl Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:32:15 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2007/06/asian-history-carnival-15/#comment-28762 Actually of the nearly 172,000 Koryo Saram (Russian-Koreans) forcibly relocated from the Soviet Far East by the NKVD in 1937 less than 96,000 ended up in Kazakhstan. The NKVD initially deported more than 76,000 ethnic Koreans to Uzbekistan. The number of Koreans exiled to Uzbekistan thus constituted over 40% of the total number of deportees. I realize that this is a general blog post and the numbers are rounded, but more than doubling the number of Russian-Koreans deported to Kazakhstan by including all those deported to Uzbekistan seems really sloppy. See Pavel Polian, _Ne po svoei vole: Istoriia i geografiia prinuditel'nykh migratsii v SSSR_ (Moscow: OGI-Memorial, 2001), p. 92. Actually of the nearly 172,000 Koryo Saram (Russian-Koreans) forcibly relocated from the Soviet Far East by the NKVD in 1937 less than 96,000 ended up in Kazakhstan. The NKVD initially deported more than 76,000 ethnic Koreans to Uzbekistan. The number of Koreans exiled to Uzbekistan thus constituted over 40% of the total number of deportees. I realize that this is a general blog post and the numbers are rounded, but more than doubling the number of Russian-Koreans deported to Kazakhstan by including all those deported to Uzbekistan seems really sloppy.

See Pavel Polian, _Ne po svoei vole: Istoriia i geografiia prinuditel’nykh migratsii v SSSR_ (Moscow: OGI-Memorial, 2001), p. 92.

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