THE KOREAN COMMUNITY IN VLADIVOSTOK

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001801080002-5
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 16, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The nnrnber of Koreans who migrated to Vlarlivostok each year since the end of
World War II is as 'follows:
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.1 %'45 (15 Aurutt tw
31 December)
L4a
867
1946 1, 723
1947 1,852
1948 (1 January 1,059
. 31 lay)
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733
2,456
1,805
3,657
838
1,897
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9,210
2. Among the Koreans now in Vladivostok there are only arrived in Vladivostok 'prior to the end of World War IIro Thesei3000Koreans
are considered. Soviet citinens; but the Koreans who have arrived in Vladivostok
since the eni of the war are treated as immigrants and do not enjoy the right,:
and. 'privile}es of Soviet citi"pns 1
In Vladivostok there are the following; schools for Koreans:
ac, Fri zo.r Soho : There are three Korean ?arix ary echr,nls, each offer-
a basic, ei; ht year course' for Korean children beti,reen the ages of
eight and sixteen. 'J.":ro of F+,, re schools hw~- e. .n etuol1rient of 310
students.each= the tIf
. rd has an enlrollme.lt of 00. The total number
of teachers in these three schools is thtrty-six, t4werity of whom are
Russians and sixteen are Koreans..
Technical Ki Schools;. There are thtee technical high schools for
Koreans. One of thesp is a clay school;
the other two are night schools.
All three schools offer courses in minin;,, inclus?tri.,).l, electrical an
civil engineering. The co-arses e,%vex in the day school are more.
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e n those given in the nf:7ht schools and. to e7 five year .s
to complete. The length of the courses -in the night ychooi is three years,
The night schools accent all Korean anni, canto sixteen years of a~_,e or oldie,:
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who are ably to ')mass an P'ntraric( f P^Y'liC).,,. :~0 ~.?.iae (b-,,r ~r s
those Koreans (..teen yerrs of or U1 ?._ ~r o hrwe _Y" l.l:t". l ro o 1 Cpl
the three I.orean 'JI'ir^2~,ry se'hoo? " in l~lt'Aivo toP ,n vho are ii le to
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an entrance exarnin,y ti.on. Gra. tt?n,tes of thr. nIn,'t: techn ct'a1, his 7h school -01C
eligible to enter a university. The total nurbnz of stu?.eats In the two
night schools is 475 anrl the to ual number` of teachers is twen,t;yW-four,
teen of whom are Russians an.'i e%;:;ht are Koressns. The c1,1,y school has 0O'
students .an, a staff of thirty-:Five ten{hers, el.i c-:6 iihom ^re !Rvassiars,.
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the, near futurs-y, Each of the two schools 600 s ,t).Clerl t s 1:siJo1
ani si: teen Korean teac';ers. The :'n.,i,.jori.ty of the s ;u'?.C?T1ts are f x '.7.t1" tes Of
primary schools in .Korea. The length of t: e c +;;rse in both 13C1.
i.100 Is i. s two
years, the firs=t year bein,; ctevoterl, no tly to ao~ .t .eal traini.n am.
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