Affliction and Opportunity: Korean Literature in Diaspora, a Brief Overview

The Korean diaspora has now become a worldwide phenomenon. How has this come about? Until the twentieth century, the first stage of the Korean diaspora—affliction-driven and confined mostly to Russia, China, Japan, and the United States—had passed into history without leaving much record of its trau...

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History
Immigrants
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Korean War
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Manual workers
Migrant communities
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Poetry
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Women
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