Gwangbokhoe Gwangju Branch Delivers Care Packages to Goryeoin Village Ahead of Chuseok

The Gwangbokhoe Gwangju Metropolitan City Branch (Branch Chief Go Wook) visited the Koryoin Village ahead of Chuseok to deliver consolation money and offer encouragement.

The Koryoin are descendants of our people who, during the Japanese colonial period, sold their properties with the sole determination of 'restoring national sovereignty,' holding the hands of their young children with tears in their eyes as they left their beloved homeland behind to move to Russia's Primorsky Krai and North Gando, and later migrated again to Central Asia where they cultivated wasteland and devoted themselves to the independence movement.

Since 2002, Shin Joa, the representative of Koryoin Village, personally helped several Koryoin compatriots, which later became organized, and now about 7,000 compatriots belong to and reside there.

Branch Chief Go Wook said, “The Koryoin are our people who resisted Japan and participated directly or indirectly in the independence movement, so all citizens should strive to help them settle in our country,” adding, “The Gwangbokhoe Gwangju Metropolitan City Branch will play a part in that role.”

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