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The second-biggest group of foreigners in South Korea are migrant workers from Southeast Asia [13] and increasingly from Central Asia (notably Uzbekistan, mostly ethnic Koreans from there, and Mongolians), and in the main cities, particularly Seoul, there is a small but growing number of foreigners related to business and education.
Ethnic groups in Korea may refer to: Ethnic groups in North Korea; Ethnic groups in South Korea This page was last edited on 2 May 2017, at 21:40 (UTC). Text ...
The second-biggest group of foreigners in South Korea are migrant workers from Southeast Asia [7] and increasingly from Central Asia (notably Uzbekistan, mostly ethnic Koreans from there, and Mongolians), and in the main cities, particularly Seoul, there is a small but growing number of foreigners related to business and education.
A number of communities consist of ethnic Koreans who have repatriated to the Korean peninsula. Some 50,000 to 70,000 ethnic Koreans living in China migrated to North Korea in the wake of the famine following Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and repression of ethnic minorities during the Cultural Revolution.
In South Korea, a variety of different Asian people had migrated to the Korean Peninsula in past centuries, however few have remained permanently. South Korea is a highly homogenous nation, but has in recent decades become home to a number of foreign residents (4.37%), whereas North Korea has not experienced this trend.
Ethnic Koreans living in Russia and Central Asia refer to themselves as Koryo-saram, [s] alluding to Goryeo, a Korean dynasty spanning from 918 to 1392, which also spawned the word 'Korea'. In the chorus of the South Korean national anthem , Koreans are referred to as Daehan-saram ("people of the great han").
For those who either remained in China or returned after migrating to North Korea, the migratory process from liberation until the early 1960s was also a period when the Korean Peninsula's ethnic identity gradually dissolved and the identity of Korean Chinese in China, which means the ethnic Korean with Chinese (PRC) citizenship was established.
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