This report is dealing with an issue of the Korean immigrants in Argentina in general. The author mainly focuses on the history of the Korean's settling down and projects a part of the research on the Korean immigrants in Latin America.
There is a st...
This report is dealing with an issue of the Korean immigrants in Argentina in general. The author mainly focuses on the history of the Korean's settling down and projects a part of the research on the Korean immigrants in Latin America.
There is a strong possibility to justify a small number of the first migrating Koreans through Yucatan peninsula arriving in the northern part of Argentina around the time of the Chaco war(1932~1935) between Bolivia and Paraguay. For this matter, we have to wait for a time being until the serious field research. Next, we could find a couple of individuals moved into the country as Japanese immigrants during the colonial days. The first Korean immingrants holding the Korean passport issued by the Korean government arrived in Buenos Aires on the 14th of October, 1965. The size of theg roup was 13 households including 78 persons. Another five families entered into a farmstead called "La Marque" on the 17th of December at the same year. They left the farm right away and the farm was filled with 8 Korean households from Paraguay in the next year. Korean towns have started near at the Parque de la Ciudad which was the bus depot and at the Cobo area which was another bus dopot. The latter one is known to the Koreans as "Paekku-ch'on"(109 village) because the number of the bus connected to the depot was 109.
Korean government has got interested in sending immigrants in Argentina and set up an oversea branch of the government funding corporation to initiate the immigration project as well as to support the immigrants in 1967. The Paekku-ch'on seemed to be a kind of the "little Seoul" until 1979 when the government of Argentina was starting to clear out some parts of the area. Since that time, the Korean immigrants have experienced to scattered around the city of Buenos Aires and this tendency has been literally growing since the year of 1984 when both governments of South Korea and Argentina agreed upon a sort of immigration act. These days one can meet Korean immigrants almost all over the small cities in Argentina. Most of the Korean immigrants are working on the line of clothing and related businesses.