[KS] Asians in East Germany

[Carl Webb]

Thanks for responding.  I've seen a web page with information about the korean diaspora in the former Soviet Union.  
So I'm assuming there must have been korean migrants in East Germany also.

> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
> To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> From: etdyke at shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
>
> I don't have specific numbers, but I can say that in general Africans and
> Asians came to the GDR for one of two purposes--education or work.  on the
> work front, just as the FRG rebuilt itself after the war in part through
> the extensive use of foreign (turkish) labor, the GDR employed significant
> numbers of immigrant labor from East Asia (I think Vietnam in particular).
> Africans came to the GDR primarily to study--the GDR's engineering and
> technology programs far surpassed those of the  Africans' home countries.
> Of course the Asian and African countries that participated in these
> exchanges were those in the post-war global socialist bloc.  
> 
> If I can locate a couple specific references (to the countries of origin
> of the students and workers, and the numbers of individuals) I will post
> them.
> 
> Liz Ten Dyke
> Kingston, NY
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Carl Webb wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:59:08 -0700
> > From: Carl Webb <carlwebb at asiafind.com>
> > Reply-To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> > To: h0727cej at rz.hu-berlin.de, korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> > Subject: RE: American Culture in Korea
> > 
> > Rudiger Frank,
> > 
> > I was a US soldier in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down.  When I had the chance to trave to East Berlin I was shocked to see many asian and african people living there.  What is the history of asians in East Germany?
> > 
> > Carl Webb
> > 
> > 
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