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Places to Visit in the Gwangju Goryeoin Village in Wolgok-dong
Narrative
Gwangju is home to one of the largest Goryeoin communities in Korea, along with Ansan in Gyeonggi-do Province. Goryeoin (or Koryo-saram) are ethnic Koreans who live in the post-Soviet states. They are descendants of Koreans living in the Russian Far East who were forced to move to Central Asia in 1937 under Stalin. Around 7,000 Goryeoin live in Gwangju’s Goryeoin Village, located in the Wolgok-dong neighborhood of Gwangsan-gu District. Notably sites to visit in the neighborhood include the Wolgok Goryeoin Cultural Center, Gyeol, the main cultural facility of the village, the Global Food Street, which features a number of restaurants representative of Goryeoin cuisine, Hong Beom-do Park, a nature space dedicated to the Korean independence activist and first-generation Goryeoin Hong Beom-do (1868-1943), the Viktor Moon Art Museum, which features works by third-generation Goryeoin artist Viktor Moon (1951-), and Cafe Family, which sells a variety of Central Asian foods.
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