Russian Resorts in Korea in the Late 1920s – early 1940s. (on the Example of the Activities of the Yankovsky Family)

Abstract

The article focuses on a unique example of the successful
development of a large Russian resort in Korea in the conditions
of emigration. The research is based on documents of personal
origin. The main reasons for the economic success of the
Yankovskys were the clan nature of the organization of their
economy, the frontier consciousness of family members, which
facilitated the process of social adaptation, and the presence of a
stable socio-economic context, which was provided by the policy
of the Japanese colonial authorities in Korea. In the 1930s, the
Yankovsky resort, remaining mainly a vacation spot for their
relatives and friends, was an important phenomenon of the Far
Eastern Russian emigration’s cultural life. The termination of
the functioning of the resorts was due not so much to internal
as to external factors: the aggravation of the military-political
situation in the region and the beginning of the Pacific War.