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| group = Koreans in Guatemala<BR/>''Coreanos en Guatemala'' |
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|group=Korean Guatemalan<br><small>Coreano Guatemalteco</small><br>{{flagicon|South_Korea}}{{flagicon|Guatemala}} |
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| poptime = 9,943 (2005)<ref name="OKF">{{citation|url=http://www.okf.or.kr/data/status_SA.jsp|title=재외동포현황 - 중남미 (Status of overseas compatriots - Central/South America)|publisher=Overseas Korean Foundation|date=2005|accessdate=2008-10-04}}</ref> |
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| popplace = ] (El Pueblito, Monte María, Roosevelt)<ref name="PrensaLibre">{{citation|url=http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/domingo/archivo/domingo/pdfs/do230901.pdf|title=Barrio Coreano|last=Rodríguez|first=Lucía|date=], ]|accessdate=2008-10-04|pages=8-11|periodical=Prensa Libre|publication-place=Guatemala}}</ref> |
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'''Koreans in Guatemala''' form one of the newest and fastest-growing ] communities in ].<ref name="OKF"/> The first migrants from South Korea to Guatemala did not arrive in the country until 1985, more than two decades after South Korean mass migration to ] began; they set up factories to produce garments for export to the ] market.<ref name="Park">{{citation|last=Park|first=Chae-soon|chapter=La emigración coreana en América Latina y sus perspectivas|title=Segundo Congreso del Consejo de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Asia y de Oceania|publisher=Latin American Studies Association of Korea|publication-place=Seoul|date=2007|url=http://www.lasak.or.kr/CELAOfiles/papers/Session3/Park%20Chae%20Soon%5BSession3-2%5D.pdf|accessdate=2008-10-04}}</ref> As recently as 1997, only 2,051 Koreans resided in the country, but by 2005, that number had almost quintupled to 9,944, surpassing the older community of ] and giving Guatemala the fourth-largest Korean population in the region, behind Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.<ref name="OKF"/> Roughly four-tenths had permanent residency in the country, with the rest having temporary visas.<ref name="Park"/> 90% live in Guatemala City.<ref name="KT">{{citation|title=MBC Report Unnerving Guatemala|periodical=The Korea Herald|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2008/09/176_20372.html|date=], ]|accessdate=2008-10-07|last=Kim|first=Se-jeong}}</ref> |
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Korean Guatemalan (]: ''Coreano Guatemalteco'') is a ]n-born person with ethnicity from ] or a South Korean-born person residing in Guatemala. They make up the majority of ]s in Guatemala and it is the only Latin American country where the majority of Asian Latinos are Koreans. |
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As of 2001, there were thirty-three Korean restaurants in the capital; other Korean residents operate karaoke bars, mini-supermarkets, book cafes, and clothing stores. In some cases, wives and children remain in Guatemala doing business while their husbands return to Korea. Octavio Kang, a graduate of the ], publishes a newspaper aimed at the community; about three-tenths of its articles are about Guatemala and the Korean community there, with the rest concerning happenings in South Korea. However, it has only 350 subscribers. Guatemalans perceive the community as fairly insular and isolated.<ref name="PrensaLibre"/> |
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===History=== |
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South Korean media portray the Korean community in Guatemala as living in constant fear of their lives due to endemic violence in the country, a portrayal which the Guatemalan embassy in Seoul strongly disputes. According to the Korean embassy, twenty-four Koreans have become the victims of violent crime in Guatemala between 2003 and 2008.<ref name="KT"/> |
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The first Koreans to Guatemala were victims of ] who were helped by Guatemalan allies of the war. They settled separate from Guatemalan mainstream by making Koreatown, especially Guatemala City, or live in the mainstream that many Koreans married ]s or pure Spanish-blooded Guatemalans. After the business relations with South Korea and Guatemala were built in ], the next group of Korean settlers arrived. They settled as businessmen and entrepreneurs of ] restaurants and Korean schools. When civil war started in ], many Korean Guatemalans escaped to neighboring ] and ] and even to ] that the number of Korean Guatemalans dwindled. But after 20 years, because news about the Korean population in Guatemala, another group of Korean residents settled as students to learn English and as entrepreneurs that the Korean Guatemalan population grew. Many Koreans also entered as tourists to see the beauty of Guatemala. |
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===Language=== |
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Most Korean Guatemalans speak Spanish and Korean. Those who got higher education speak ], and there are many Korean Guatemalan schools that give English-language teaching for Korean resident aliens. |
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Most of them are Christians and they have their own Christian churches that conduct in Korean language. There are also a small number of Buddhists. |
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===Prominent Korean Guatemalans=== |
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As of 2001, there were thirty-three Korean restaurants in the capital; other Korean residents operate karaoke bars, mini-supermarkets, book cafes, and clothing stores. In some cases, wives and children remain in Guatemala doing business while their husbands return to Korea. Octavio Kang, a graduate of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, publishes a newspaper aimed at the community; about three-tenths of its articles are about Guatemala and the Korean community there, with the rest concerning happenings in South Korea. However, it has only 350 subscribers. Guatemalans perceive the community as fairly insular and isolated.
South Korean media portray the Korean community in Guatemala as living in constant fear of their lives due to endemic violence in the country, a portrayal which the Guatemalan embassy in Seoul strongly disputes. According to the Korean embassy, twenty-four Koreans have become the victims of violent crime in Guatemala between 2003 and 2008.