By taking on a research on the Central Asian Koreans' life stories, the researcher has been able to record 11 male and female diaspora Koreans who dictated stories about their forced migration. This work marks a new opportunity where the reality of fo ...
By taking on a research on the Central Asian Koreans' life stories, the researcher has been able to record 11 male and female diaspora Koreans who dictated stories about their forced migration. This work marks a new opportunity where the reality of forced migration along with detailed aspects of settlement and adaptation has been understood. Also, nearly all descriptive materials published in journals such as Goreoilbo or in other anthologies in regards to these Koreans' life stories have been collected. Based on both oral and descriptive materials, the researcher compared the lives and views of life of these diaspora Koreans with those of mainland Koreans to the effect that the implications and characteristics may have been captured. For instance, as for the diaspora Koreans born earlier than the year 1931, there had been an uncomparable, still-haunting suffering from forced group migration by Stalin totally unlike their contemporary mainland Koreans, which only confirms that the two groups of Koreans though born in the identical period and as a self-same national should have lived such a different life.
In addition, differences have been found in terms of women's married life, gender discrimination, regionalism, social status discrimination, divide between the rich and the poor, education opportunity, arable land, religious conflict, linguistic difficulty and so forth. However, both groups of Koreans have been pursuing a number of goals in common, such as tough maternity or high value on education. The most meaningful achievement of this research is probably that a considerable amount of reality concerning the forced migration has been revealed or accessible. Based on a synthesis where the voices of varied witnessing persons were heard, many misunderstandings so far have been able to be corrected. Take the Jamble for an example, which was a dug-out cave-like place to live in for the early settlers at Ushtobe. Some researchers thought of it as a legend but it was found to be a fact by this research. Moreover, migrated Koreans were found to have dwelt in the Jamble in other regions as well, not just at Ushtobe. Finally, the findings naturally come to discuss what differences there are between Socialism and Capitalism in terms of weakness and strength and, further, what could be the true identity or the homogeneity of the Korean race.