In this article the so-called “traditional” Russian transliteration of names of the first Korean migrants in Russian Far East is explained. The linguistic analysis revealed some patterns dating back to the Middle Korean language which were preserved in some dialects and implemented in the Russian spellings of Korean names.

Kondratyeva Elena Nikolaevna, Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, 11, b.1, Mokhovaya st., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation; Associate Professor, Department of Far East and South-East Asia, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, 21/4, b.1, Staraya Basmannaya st., Moscow, 105066, Russian Federation, e-mail: kondratelena@yahoo.com

Kondratyeva E.N. The First Korean Migrants in the Far East and Inaccurate Korean Names: a Linguistic Analysis. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2020, vol. 34, pp. 99-105. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2020.34.99 (in Russian)

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