Type | NGO |
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Region served | China |
Official language | Korean |
Chairwoman | Choe Un-bok |
Main organ | Congress |
Website |
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General Association of Koreans in China | |||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 旅華朝鮮人總聯合會 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 旅华朝鲜人总联合会 | ||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||
Kanji | 在中朝鮮人総聯合会 | ||||||||
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North Korean name | |||||||||
Chosŏn'gŭl | 재중조선인총연합회 |
The General Association of Koreans in China is a pro- DPRK group of ethnic Koreans in the People's Republic of China. The organization is led by Chairwoman Choe Un-bok and held its sixth congress in Shenyang, China, on August 10, 2016. At that time it had been seven years since their fifth congress. [1]
There are regional and branch organizations of the GAKC, including one in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. The regional chairman there, Cha Sang-bo, is the vice-chairman of the General Association of Koreans in China. [2]
They publish a magazine called Paektu-Halla. [3]
The organization was apparently founded in 1991, based around a "Korean-Japanese headquarters" led by Chung Min Lee. It adopted its current name in 1998. [4] [5]