Tashkent Korean Culture Festival in Tashkent
Korean culture festivals recur in Tashkent, home to a large ethnic Korean community, including the Mokkoji Korea World Korean Culture Festival first held September 24-25, 2022 to mark 30 years of Uzbekistan-South Korea diplomatic ties, and annual Chuseok harvest festival celebrations at the Palace of Korean Culture and Arts.
In 1937, Soviet authorities forcibly deported roughly 172,000 ethnic Koreans from the Russian Far East to Central Asia, including present-day Uzbekistan, uprooting an entire community under Stalin's resettlement policy.