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3 unusual facts about Koreans


Alderwood Manor, Washington

The only Alderwood Manor buildings still in the same place as they were when they were built are the old Masonic Temple (now a Korean church) and Manor Hardware (former schoolhouse in early 1900s).

Braiger

The series was supposedly inspired by real-life scientific research and used a lot of Korean talents at the lower ranks of production.

Kentau

In Soviet times, the population of the city was mainly from Russia, the descendants of the repressed: Greeks, Russians, Germans, Koreans, Jews, Chechens, etc., as well as Uzbeks, and majority of population comprising an ethnic Kazakhs.


2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea

After being released from custody by the North Koreans, Lee and Ling were flown back to Los Angeles with Clinton and his delegation in a Boeing 737 owned by Hollywood producer and Clinton friend Steve Bing's company Shangri-La Entertainment.

Akira Fujiwara

Motohiko Izawa has slammed a number of modern historians like Fujiwara for putting ideology ahead of truth in their belief that the North Korean side was just and that American imperialism and the South Koreans were the villains.

Bout One

After transfer, the unit was redesignated as 51st Provisional Fighter Squadron of the Republic of Korea Air Force, but remained under U.S. Air Force command, as the Koreans were not deemed prepared to operate their new aircraft effectively.

Bridge of No Return

The bridge was actively used by the North Koreans up until the Axe Murder Incident in August 1976, at which time the United Nations Command demanded that the Military Demarcation Line within the Joint Security Area be enforced and clearly marked.

Bundang-gu

Bundang is home to many Koreans who lived overseas and the European-styled cafe streets serving brunch and pastas in Pangyo Avenue France, Baekhyeon-dong and Jeongja-dong reflect their culture.

Cheonghae Unit

On April 4, 2010, Somali pirates took over the South Korean supertanker Samho Dream along with its 24 crew members, including five Koreans and nineteen Filipinos.

Chin Lee

He is one of four councillors of Asian heritage elected to city council in Toronto, the other three being Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Korean born, Councillor Raymond Cho.

Chocolate Love

"Chocolate Love" is a song recorded separately by South Korean girl groups Girls' Generation and f(x) as promotional singles for LG Cyon's New Chocolate Phone.

Dandong

Dandong is also home to a remote outpost of UK supermarket Tesco, purportedly used by China's elite and visiting North Koreans.

Demographics of Kyrgyzstan

A small percentage of the population are also Koreans, who are the descendants of the Koreans deported in 1937 from the Soviet Far East to Central Asia.

Demographics of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan has an ethnic Korean population that was forcibly relocated to the region from the Soviet Far East in 1937-1938.

Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union

34,000 Koreans were placed on the desolate outpost of Ushtobe, Kazakhstan with no food and no shelter and were forced to survive on their own for almost three years.

Girls' Generation Japan 3rd Tour 2014

Girls' Generation Japan 3rd Tour 2014 is the upcoming third Japanese concert tour by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation to promote their third Japanese album, Love & Peace.

Goryeo language

Koryo-mar, the dialect of Korean spoken by ethnic Koreans in the former USSR

Hendrick Hamel

King Hyojong ordered them to build muskets for the army, providing muskets to the Koreans for the first time after the Seven Year War (1592-1598).

History of the Korean Americans in Los Angeles

As of 2008 Greater Los Angeles has the largest Korean community in the United States with about 60,000 ethnic Koreans.

It, along with Greater New York City, is one of the two principal areas of Korean settlement, and the number of ethnic Koreans in Greater Los Angeles is 15% of the United States's Korean American population.

Japanese North Korean

Chongryon, the North Korean-funded ethnic representative organisation for Koreans in Japan

Japanese South Korean

Mindan, the pro-South Korean ethnic representative organisation for Koreans in Japan

Jirisan

After United Nations forces took the area a considerable number of North Koreans remained in the mountains, where they continued a guerrilla war until finally beaten in 1955, two years after the cease fire was signed by the belligerents.

Kim Hyon-hui

Kim was originally trained as an actress, and starred in North Korea's first Technicolor film, playing a girl whose family fled to North Korea to escape poverty in South Korea, as North Koreans are taught that South Koreans live in extreme poverty.

Korea Society

Each year, The Korea Society gives its James A. Van Fleet Award “to one or more distinguished Koreans or Americans in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the promotion of U.S.-Korea relations.”

Korean diaspora

Koreans born or settled overseas have been migrating back to both North and South Korea ever since the restoration of Korean independence; perhaps the most famous example is Kim Jong-Il, born in Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, where his father Kim Il-sung had been serving in the Red Army.

Korean nationalist historiography

Prior to the 19th century, according to Carter Eckert, "there was little, if any, feeling of loyalty toward the abstract concept of 'Korea' as a nation-state, or toward fellow inhabitants of the peninsula as 'Koreans'".

Korean Wikipedia

North Koreans are underrepresented on the Korean Wikipedia, due to North Korean censorship of the Internet in North Korea.

Koreans in Japan

Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans from Japan conducted under the auspices of the Japanese Red Cross began to receive official support from the Japanese government as early as 1956; a North Korean-sponsored repatriation programme with support of the Chōsen Sōren (The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) officially began in 1959.

Koreans in Uruguay

Most Koreans live in and around Montevideo, where some work as fishermen, while others are involved in the textile industry.

Kyeong-Hee Choi

Her recent research and teaching interests have been focused around the relationships between historical and literary representation and the experience of modern Koreans, including colonial rule, national division, the Korean War, the Cold War, and democratization.

Mimana

According to her, a second theory about Mimana was proposed by a North Korean scholar Gim Seokhyeong, who proposed that it was in fact Koreans who had a colony on Japanese islands, somewhere around Oyama prefecture, and thus Nihongi should be understood as referring only to the Japanese lands, not the Korean peninsula.

Na Woon-gyu

It dealt with Koreans crossing the Duman River, as Na himself had done, in search of freedom from Japanese oppression.

Oh! / All My Love Is For You

"Oh! / All My Love is for You" is the fifth Japanese single by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.

Pak Chang-ok

Pak was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Russia, after the suicide of their first leader, Alexei Ivanovich Hegay.

Siping, Jilin

Ancient ethnic tribes such as the Fuyu, the Goguryeo, the Khitans, the Jurchen, the Mongols, the Manchus, and Koreans have left behind cultural artifacts, including Hanzhou, Xinzhou, and the Yehe Tribe Cultural Artifacts .

Souls Protest

The film is an epic dramatisation of the Ukishima Maru incident in which hundreds of Koreans were killed when the ship was sunk by a mysterious explosion, and supports the Korean view that the explosion was deliberately set off by the ship's Japanese crew.

South Korea–United States relations

According to a 2013 BBC World Service Poll, 58% of South Koreans view U.S. influence positively, the highest rating for any surveyed Asian country.

South Manchuria Railway Zone

In addition, Japan also maintained Consular Police attached to the Japanese consulates and branch consulates in major cities as Harbin, Tsitsihar, and Manchouli, as well as in the Chientao District, in which lived large numbers of ethnic Koreans.

Ssaurabi

The term "ssaurabi" earned recognition among South Koreans in 1990s possibly because the Korean editions of the Samurai Shodown series (fighting games) were released under the name of Ssaurabi Tuhon (싸울아비 투혼 literally Ssaurabi fighting spirits).

Steven Choi

He and Sukhee Kang (elected to a two-year term on the same day) became the first two Asian Americans and Koreans elected to the Irvine City Council.

USNS New Bedford

The New Bedford is also the sister ship of the ill-fated Pueblo, which was captured by the North Koreans in 1968 and whose crew was imprisoned for 11 months.

Wanpaoshan Incident

The Chinese maintained that the Koreans had no right to reside and lease land outside of Gando District per the terms of the Gando Convention.

Zhu Zhiyu

It was less than fifty years since the original Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu had been forced to bring the troops home from Korea after defeat at the hands of the Koreans and Ming.


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