Maintenance of cultural identity of the Russian-speaking Korean repatriates in the Republic of Korea, returning from Russia and former soviet republics (1998-2011)

The article deals with Korean repatriates returned to the Republic of Korea for the permanent residence from Russia and former Soviet Republics. The author studies problem of cultural identity keeping of the Russian-speaking Koreans. As a result of the research, there defined factors favoring and interfering maintenance of the cultural identity by the Korean repatriates in the receiving society.