“As we know in the old, old times, in the ancient times - in the Korean peninsula - all people ate this way,” Kim said. A dish that’s no longer served in South Korea. But rice that we put in cold water.”Ĭold rice, eaten with every meal. “For example, I remember from my childhood that we ate rice. That’s why our cuisine has North Korean roots,” Kim said. The deportees carried seeds native to the Korean peninsula, such as red bean, hot peppers and corn used in breads prepared for the holidays. And second, they took textbooks - Korean language books,” said German Kim, who directs the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University in Almaty, and is one of the world’s leading scholars of the Koryo-saram. They knew that when they arrived, they’d need seeds. They called themselves the Koryo-saram, or ‘The Korean People.” Thousands died on the journey - those who survived and lived through the winter were forced to farm rice in the unforgiving steppes. In 1937, Soviet leader Josef Stalin issued an order to deport nearly 180,000 Koreans from Russia’s Far East in what historians describe as “frontier cleansing.” The families, who had migrated to the area in the late 1800s, were forced onto trains for an excruciating journey to what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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