ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Students' Papers</title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor = "lightgreen" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#ff0000" alink="#ff0000"> <DIV align="center"><font size = "7" face = "garamond"> <BR> World History at</b></font></DIV><font size = "4"><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="center"> <A HREF = "http://www.zum.de/"> <img src ="../../../zumtempel.gif"> </A></font></TD> <TD width="240" valign="top" align="center"> <img src ="../../../logo.gif"> </font></TD> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="center"> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <BR><BR> <DIV align="center"> <font size = "5" face = "Times Roman"> Teacher's Comment : <BR><BR> Baik, Seung Min - <A HREF = "marshall3.html">History of the Sakhalin Koreans </A> <BR> </font></div> <BR> <BR><BR> <DIV align="left"> <font size = "4"> Baik, Seung Min (Marshall Baik) has attended my history class for two consecutive years. Attending to elderly repatriated Sakhalin Koreans in his hometown, he wrote a research paper on their history and spent about a year on it. <BR> The Sakhalin Koreans migrated there because in the 1920es and 1930es, because the Japanese needed workers to work the local mines. When the Soviets took over in 1945, most of the Sakhalin Koreans opted to stay (over emigrating to North Korea). Only when the USSR opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991) and beyond could Sakhalin Koreans return to their land of origin. During the Japanese and Soviet periods, little was written about the fate of this group of Korean migrants, and even less was published about them in western languages. Baik Seung Min, in his concise, well-structured paper, makes the record of their fate known to non-readers of the Korean language. <BR> In addition to having interviewed hundreds of repatriated Sakhalin Koreans, he has used Korean-language publications on the topic, and, in the company of a Korean missionary who lives on the island, recently travelled Sakhalin. His paper compares to a third year college seminar presentation and provides a solid basis for an academic discussion of the topic. <BR><BR><BR> <DIV align="center"> <font size = "4" face = "Times Roman"> September 21st 2007 <BR><BR> Alexander Ganse </font></div> <BR><BR><BR> <DIV align="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="120" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "3"><B> Baik, Seung Min <B></font></TD> <TD width="500" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "3"><B> <A HREF = "marshall3.html">History of the Sakhalin Koreans </A></font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../../email.gif"></a><BR><BR> </DIV><BR><BR> </body> </html>