On remote Sakhalin Island, near Russia’s eastern edge, tales of longing and splintered identity are embedded in people’s very names. “We’re going home!”The Koreans of Sakhalin Island, a people stranded by history, are on the move yet again. | SERGEY PONOMAREV/THE NEW YORK TIMES“There will be more broken families,” said Pak Sun Ok, director of an advocacy group for Sakhalin Koreans in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the island’s main city. The new law allows younger Sakhalin Koreans to move to South Korea if they are caring for a first-generation returnee. Russia’s borders reopened to South Koreans only in August, and South Korea still requires a 10-day quarantine for most arrivals.

Source: New York Times November 08, 2021 02:03 UTC