ABSTRACT
Korea1 is almost the only country with no Chinatown where ‘Hwagyo’ – ‘huaqiao’ in Chinese or overseas ethnic Chinese – failed to settle in an ethnic enclave (Yang and Lee 2004, Onishi 2007). Although the settlement of Hwagyos in Korea dates back to the 1880s, their number was just 13,000 at the end of 2006. During the 1960s and the 1970s, the Korean government restricted their economic activities; for example, ownership of land and other properties was prohibited with the result that many Hwagyos decided to migrate to the United States, or move to Taiwan.
