During Tsarist times when the island served as a penal colony, Goryeo-saram (Koreans) arrived there to work, despite official discrimination and Russian fear of the ``yellow menace.''īut Koreans never became a sizable part of the labor force until they were forced into colonies during the Japanese imperialist era.
Sakhalin indeed is profoundly intertwined with Korean history. I noticed this most acutely on a recent trip to Sakhalin, an island to which the increasingly parochial and introverted Korean media offer scant focus. Meanwhile we receive meager coverage of other regions, no matter their importance to Korea's history or national interests.
Every day I watch the Korean news, and every day, I hear two bits of ``international'' news ― the crisis on Wall Street and Japanese claims to Dokdo.Įgregiously, Dokdo (which is internationally recognized as a rock and not an island) is clearly a landmass with no economic significance in fact it seems to be a state burden.
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