KOREAN DIASPORA: Successful ethnic Koreans in Kazakhstan

강제 이주 80주년: 성공한 카자흐스탄 고려인

80 years ago, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported the ethnic Koreans living in Russia's Far East to Kazakhstan.
And to this day there are still around a hundred thousand of them living there, many of them very successful.
Our Kim Hyesung is in the commercial capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty,... where she met two of them hoping to build bridges between their ancestral homeland, Korea,... and the country where they were born.
Bronislav Shin is busy working as chairman of Almatyingstroy, one of the top 50 companies in Kazakhstan.
Medals and awards are testament to his success, as he built major roads and buildings across the country.
But it was not an easy path for Shin.

(Kazakh)
"I was born and raised in Atyrau, a rural part of the country when my parents were forced to relocate there under Stalin. My siblings and I didn't even have shoes to wear back then. We were poor..."

It was only after the collapse of the Soviet Union that he had the opportunity to work as a construction worker, then senior manager and finally, chairman.
Around 170,000 Koryeoin, or ethnic Koreans were deported from the Russian far east under Stalin in 1937. and many of them died due to starvation and cold weather.
As of 2017, around 100,000 Koryeoins live in Kazakhstan, and are considered one of the most successful and respected ethnic minorities out of the 130 in the country.

(stand-up)
"With diligence and persistence, not only have many Kazakh Koreans become successful in business,… but they are also using their skills to get involved in academia, culture and even politics here in Kazakhstan."

Roman Kim is the Deputy of the Mazhilis Lower House of the Kazakhstani Parliament.

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