The second book of the monograph “The History of Korean Immigration” examines the scope of problems of post-war stage of Korean immigration into Asia, America, Europe and Oceania countries. The area of ethnic Koreans settlement considerably increased comparing to the initial period of Korean immigration. Similarly to the first book, the second one focuses main attention on the reasons of resettlement, the dynamics of immigration waves, the characteristics of age, gender and social composition of immigrants, and the geography of settlement in the recipient countries.

The specific historical material, which’s base lies in the historical-demographic characteristics of Korean immigration since 1945 up to nowadays, is premised with the theoretical review of migration and diaspore problematic. The book covers the issues of population in the Republic of Korea and Korean People Democratic Republic related to the changes of main demographic indicators, urbanization, internal and external migration. 

The scientific turnover is expanded by the huge scope of sources: archival materials, statistical data, periodicals, results of field and ethnic-sociological studies, academic publications, literary memoirs etc., which appear as the solid research base. The special synthetic group of sources is presented by the materials obtained from Internet as the essential and integral part of the book.

The content of the second book is immediately premised by the analysis of historical fortunes of foreign Koreans, which pass through the so called “3 A” stages: adaptation, acculturation and assimilation – this would be covered as the main theme of the closing third book of the monograph research.         

The book is intended, first of all, for specialists in Korean studies, but it is also informative and rather useful for historians, demographers, geographers, economists as well as for general readers who have interest in the foreign Koreans, international migrations of population and diaspore studies.