The aim of this article is to make us understand the economic realities of Korean kolkhoz transformed in Central Asia after the deportation affair in 1937 by reviewing the economic achievements of the Kolkhoz “the Polar Star” that played a pivot role ...

The aim of this article is to make us understand the economic realities of Korean kolkhoz transformed in Central Asia after the deportation affair in 1937 by reviewing the economic achievements of the Kolkhoz “the Polar Star” that played a pivot role in Uzbek agriculture.
The Soviet Koreans were forced to be incorporated in various collective farms in the form of kolkhozes and sophozes by the agricultural reforms of the Soviet Union from the end of 1920s. The Kolkhoz “the Polar Star”, one of the kolkhozes formed in the Far East, could not help being reorganized in the Tashkent region in Uzbekistan with Stalin's order of deportation.
The Koreans of the “Polar Star” worked diligently in the new soils and finally succeeded in their life with most Koreans of other kolkhozes. Especially the “Polar Star” began to develop rapidly in economic aspects after Kim Byeonghwa was selected as the new leader, later it became to be the best kolkhoz in Uzbekistan and even in the whole Union. In a conclusion the victorious backgrounds of the “Polar Star” can be examined as follows:
Firstly, the “Polar Star” started mainly in cultivating rice, but since the mid 1940s it concentrated in growing cottons successfully. Cotton is the traditionally main culture in Uzbekistan. Secondly, The agricultural and the support system was well utilized by the “Polar Star”. It was more helpful that much of the machine belonged to the Machine-Tractor Station(MTS) were given to the kolkhoz. As a result the productivity increased highly. Thirdly, it can be noted that the leader of the “Polar Star” Kim had a good character person and he managed the kolkhoz rationally. Owing to such a fact he could work as the leader to his death in 1974. Fourthly, there were many other honorable farmers in the “Polar Star” except Kim. It was peculiar that the Kolkhoz had 26 Socialist-Labor Heroes.