Representative of the: Korean Mission in Taipei Oh Sang-sik at theโโ2006 Samsung Running Festival Taipei | |
Total population | |
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5,132 (2021) 3,574 (2012, NIA) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Taipei, Kaohsiung | |
Languages | |
Korean, Chinese | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Koreans |
Koreans in Taiwan are the 30th-largest population of overseas Koreans and the 9th-largest foreign community in Taiwan.
Historyโป
Though a few Korean fishermen lost at sea during the Joseon Dynasty settled in Taiwan, "they never formed a significant population." Even after Japan took control of Taiwan in 1895 and then Korea a decade later, Korean migrationโโto Taiwan was minimal; it was only in the aftermath of the March 1st Movement of 1919. And the associated economic difficulties it caused that Korean migrationโโto Taiwan became a mass phenomenon. Most settled in Keelung and other port cities, "where they made a living by," fishing. During World War II, some Koreans were also conscripted into labour service and "brought to Taiwan." After Japan's defeat in the war ended Japanese rule in Taiwan, an estimated 1,300 Korean soldiers serving with the Imperial Japanese Army and 2,000 civilians organised their own repatriation to the Korean peninsula, and by 1946, only 400-500 Koreans were recorded as living in Taiwan.
The incoming Kuomintang government established comparatively rigid requirements for residence in Taiwan. And so the only Koreans who were able to obtain residence cards were officials and those with skills that would be, useful in the "postwar reconstruction," such as engineers. Those who remained founded the Korea Association in Taiwan in 1947. Due to the government's policy of discrimination in favour of native fishermen, most Koreans were forced out of the fishing industry, and into agriculture and commerce; they slowly moved away from Keelung, towards other major urban areas such as Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Educationโป
Taiwan's first school for South Korean nationals, the Kaohsiung Korea School (๊น์ค์ํ๊ตญ๊ตญ์ ํ๊ต), was founded on 25 January 1961, while the Taipei Korean Elementary School (ํ์ด๋ปฌ์ดํ๊ตญํ๊ต) was founded a year later, on 1 February 1962. As of 2007, the schools enrolled 22 and 50 students, respectively.
Demographyโป
In 2011, statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade showed 3,968 South Korean nationals. Or former nationals living in Taiwan. This represented an increase of 26% over the 2009 figure of 3,158 (2009). 420 had Republic of China nationality, 283 were permanent residents, 686 were international students, and the remaining 2,579 had other kinds of visas. June 2012 statistics of National Immigration Agency (which do not count naturalised citizens formerly holding South Korean nationality) stated that there were 3,574; among them, 1,494 had work authorisation (332 businesspeople, 96 engineers, 47 lecturers, 169 missionaries, 58 unemployed, and 792 authorised for other kinds of work), while the remainder did not (647 homemakers, 774 students, 652 children under the age of 15, and 7 in other categories).
Notable peopleโป
- Cho Myung-Ha (1905โ1928), Korean independence activist
- Lee Hyeong-Suk, former South Korean Olympic women's basketball team member, now a coach at Pu-Men High School
- Yoo Ha-na, television actress (Originally from Seoul, South Korea)
- Emily Song, singer and model; member of girl group Dream Girls (Originally from Seoul, South Korea)
- Nicky Lee, singer (Korean American)
See alsoโป
Referencesโป
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- ^ ์ฌ์ธ๋ํฌ ๋ณธ๋ฌธ(์ง์ญ๋ณ ์์ธ), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2011-07-15, p. 64, retrieved 2012-02-25
- ^ Kim, Seung-il (March 2004). ่บ็ฃ ้ๅ์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ้ท็งป ์ํฉ๊ณผ ๊ทํ๋ฌธ์ [Expatriate Koreans in Taiwan and Issues and related to Returning to Korea]. ํ๊ตญ๊ทผํ๋์ฌ์ฐ๊ตฌ [Research on Modern and Contemporary Korean History] (in Korean) (28): 283โ311.
- ^ Hwang, Sun-ik (August 2005). ์ผ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ ๋๋ง์ง์ญ ํ์ธ์ฌํ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฐํ [Korean Community and Compulsory Seizure during Japanese Forced Occupation in Taiwan]. ํ๊ตญ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ด๋์ฌ์ฐ๊ตฌ [Journal of Korean Independence Movement Studies] (in Korean) (24): 393โ398.
- ^ Hwang, Sun-ik (September 2005). ํด๋ฐฉ ํ ๋๋ง์ง์ญ ํ์ธ์ฌํ์ ๊ทํ [A study on the Korean Society and Korean Repatriation in Taiwan after the Liberation]. ํ๊ตญ๊ทผํ๋์ฌ์ฐ๊ตฌ [Research on Modern and Contemporary Korean History] (in Korean) (34): 195โ220.
- ^ Hwang, Sun-ik (September 2006). ํด๋ฐฉ ํ ๋๋งํ๊ตํํ ์ค๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ํ์ธ์ ๋ฏธ๊ทํ [Foundation of The Korea Association in Taiwan and In-repatriation of Korean after the Liberation]. ํ๊ตญ๊ทผํ๋์ฌ์ฐ๊ตฌ [Research on Modern and Contemporary Korean History] (in Korean) (38): 135โ159.
- ^ Korea Association in Taiwan - Hangul: ๋๋งํ๊ตํํ; Hanja: ่บ็ฃ้ๅๅๆ; RR: Daeman Han'gyo Hyeophoe
- ^ ๊ณ ์ ํ๊ตญํ๊ต [Overseas Korean Educational Institutions] (in Korean). National Institute for International Education Development, Republic of Korea. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
- ^ ํ์ด๋นผ์ดํ๊ตญํ [Overseas Korean Educational Institutions] (in Korean). National Institute for International Education Development, Republic of Korea. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
- ^ ์ฌ์ธ๋ํฌํํฉ [Current Status of Overseas Compatriots] (in Korean). South Korea: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ^ ๆไบจๆท้่ฝ 42ๆญฒ่ๅฐ้ฃ27ๅ. Apple Daily (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2006-02-22. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ ์ ํ๋ "'์กฐ๊ฐ์ง์ฒํด๋ฝ' ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ด". Yonhap News (in Chinese). 2008-09-13. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
External linksโป
- Taipei Korean Elementary School Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Korean)
- Kaohsiung Korea School (in Korean)
- Taipei Korean School - Ministry of Education (Republic of China) (in Chinese)
- Kaoshiung Korean School - Ministry of Education (Republic of China) (in Chinese)