Travels through 'The Zone': Looking for China’s Ethnic Koreans

Here are some glimpses of the Korean Autonomous Zone in northeast China, just above the right shoulder of North Korea.

If you are interested, feel free to follow up this link to read my write up in the JoongAng Daily

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2902991

The title of the article is Cultural amnesia for Koreans in China

                                                                   Yanji Bridge

The lovely pharmacists of Hunchun (I had a cold). The woman on the left is ethnic Korean, while the woman on the right is Han Chinese.

Korean restaurants galore, in a heritage street of Tumen.

                                                                          In Tumen

In Yanji