Untold Tales: Two Lesser Known Personal and Social-Linguistic Histories of Sakhalin Koreans

Based on two interviews, this paper is a description of the sociolinguistic history of three ethnic Koreans living on Sakhalin island: a second generation mother and her daughter in the south, and a second generation lady living in the far north. The circumstances of the two families share a point o...

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Main Author: Logie, Andrew
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Finnish Oriental Society 2016
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/store/article/view/59483
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Summary:Based on two interviews, this paper is a description of the sociolinguistic history of three ethnic Koreans living on Sakhalin island: a second generation mother and her daughter in the south, and a second generation lady living in the far north. The circumstances of the two families share a point of common geographic origin in northeastern Korea but otherwise their historical experiences differ from one another. Significantly, both are also aberrant to the dominant and well documented “victimization narrative” of Sakhalin Koreans prevalent in the popular imagination and discourse pertaining in South Korea today.Данная статья основывается на двух интервью и представляет собой описание социолингвистической истории трех этнических кореянок, живущих на о. Сахалин: матери второго поколения эмигрантов и ее дочери, живущих на юге острова, и женщины второго поколения эмигрантов, живущей на севере острова. Обе семьи происходят из северо-восточной Кореи, однако имеют различный исторический опыт проживания на Сахалине. В обоих случаях наблюдаются отличия от “нарратива виктимизации”, который характерен для общепринятого представления в современной Южной Корее.