The Jixi region is known for its Korean ethnic minority.

(To this day, the Korean minority in Japan is permitted only "permanent resident" status and is routinely discriminated against.)

Japan discriminated harshly against the Koreans, even after the war, and that cemented the nationalistic tendencies of the Korean minority.

The demographic make-up is primarily ethnic Russian with a large ethnic Korean minority.

In addition, there is very little enthusiasm for irredentism among the Korean minority in China.

Most of the country's 15,000 parlours are run by Japan's Korean minority, who have been denied the right to Japanese citizenship.

The Korean minority, now numbering over 600,000, have suffered from this racial prejudice.

For example, members of the Chinese and Korean minorities are sub jected to threats, abuse, abduction, and extortion by extreme nationalist groups.

The 1968 incident and his efforts on behalf of the Korean minority in Japan "made him a national hero in South Korea".

Founded 20 March 1949, the university's aim is to educate the Korean minority in Northeast China.