Kore saram as an ethnocultural phenomenon

Korе Saram is the self-name of an ethnic group of Koreans living in Russia. The article analyzes the ethnocultural process of an emergency meeting of two completely different ethnocultural worlds using the example of Kore Saram. The first Korean immigrants arrived in the Far East, in Primorsky Krai from the second half of the 19th century to the 1920s. In the course of complex acculturation, an ethnocultural community began to form, which, while preserving the features of Korean culture, became significantly Russified. The change in the cultural code as a result of the interaction of two different cultural worlds has generated an ethnocultural phenomenon that does not belong to either of the two elements of interaction. The acculturation of Koreans who settled on Russian territory took place in stages: the pre-revolutionary period, the 1920s, 1937—1953, when forced resettlement to Central Asia took place, the Soviet period of settlement throughout the country and the modern period of the revival of ethnic identity. As a result, intercultural interaction resulted in the formation of a kind of cultural synthesis of a new sub-ethnic community, in which the Korean cultural paradigm was organically transformed, and Russian culture was adapted. Today, kore saram is an integral part of the Russian ethno-cultural "unity in diversity."