Are there any Koreans in the Kazakhstan national team?

The Koreans are members of the multi-ethnic family in Central Asia. Like other ethnic groups, the Koreans play their due role in national independence, economic development and national harmony. Currently, there are nearly 350,000 Koreans living in Central Asia, including 100,000 in Kazakhstan, 210,000 in Uzbekistan, 20,000 in Kyrgyzstan, 5,000 in Turkmenistan, and 1,000-2,000 in Tajikistan. Roman, vice chairman of the Korean Federation of Kazakhstan, told reporters: "The Koreans in Central Asia are a young ethnic group. Koreans began to settle in Central Asia in large numbers in 1937. Among them, Uzbekistan has the largest number."

In the mid-19th century, Koreans began to live in the Far East of Tsarist Russia. In 1860, the first Korean couple crossed the border into Tsarist Russia. After that, Koreans began to pour into the Far East of Tsarist Russia. After the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied North Korea, and the domestic living environment in North Korea further deteriorated. At that time, the Far East was sparsely populated and fertile. Therefore, before and after the October Revolution, a large number of Koreans found a home in neighboring countries.

After the outbreak of World War II, the fate of the Koreans living in the Far East and Primorsky Krai of the Soviet Union also changed. According to Li Shan, a Korean descendant in Russia, the Soviet Union was at war with Germany, Japan and other countries at that time. In order to make the Soviets alienate and hate Koreans, Japan spread the word that because Koreans and Japanese looked very similar, Japan bribed some Koreans to engage in espionage activities in the Far East. These situations attracted the attention of the Soviet government at that time. The Koreans were good at farming, but at that time, Central Asia was vast and sparsely populated, with large tracts of uncultivated land. Based on the above reasons or other reasons that are still unknown, in 1937, Stalin signed an order to "relocate" 200,000 Koreans living in the Far East and Primorye to Central Asia.

At that time, except for a few people who went to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, most Koreans were moved to Kazakhstan. They first took a 20-kilometer bus ride, and then took a more than 4,000-kilometer train ride, almost moving from one end of the Soviet Union to the other. When the train approached Ushtobe in the Almarin region of Kazakhstan, the train began to "sow" Koreans: one or two thousand people were expelled at intervals. At that time, the areas where Koreans were resettled were called settlements. Later, the Korean people nicknamed these settlements "daughters of the Korean people" because "point" and "daughter" are homophonic in Russian. For the Koreans, this is a bitter history of exile.