This paper is intended to sketch on the development of education in ethnic Korean society in the period of 1930-40s, considering the element of social influence on education. The formation and development of education in ethnic Korean society in Russi ...

This paper is intended to sketch on the development of education in ethnic Korean society in the period of 1930-40s, considering the element of social influence on education. The formation and development of education in ethnic Korean society in Russian Far East and in central Asia has received only minimal attention from scholarship. In recent years, several studies have attempted to find that education was a key to successful settlement of koreans in the alien lands. Especially G. Kim paid great attention to the problem of interrelation between soviet policy in the sphere of education and its development in ethnic korean society.
Most scholarly work, however, pays little attention to the topic on the viewpoint of accepters. As has been noted by G. Kim soviet policy in the sphere of education had great power to ethnic minority such as korean in Soviet central Asia. However the question how and why ethnic korean society decided to accept the sovietized system of education have not been studied in detail.
In chapter 2 and 3, author observes the circumstances in the sphere of education of ethnic Korean society in central Asia. On the end of 1930s they had to solve two problems simultaneously: to prepare the base to live and to educate young generation adopting the enforced for them difficult environments. For the first few years after deportation, they had no choice without depending on the support from soviet authorities for basic foundation to educate young generation. So they endeavored to assimilate in the policy of the Soviet authorities. At the same time korean communities in central Asia made effort to construct there own schools and to assign a lots of budget for them. Also I observe the results, the problem of national language, and the growth of school and student. It is significant to note that the ethnic korean society saw a rapid sovietization of programs in schools in the period of stability of 1940s. It was accompanied with the desire of korean students and their parents to make education as a good means of social movement.