Can families returning after centuries solve S Korea's population crisis?
Ethnic Koreans, whose ancestors migrated to Russia, are returning, but the move can be difficult.
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But look just beneath the surface and the differences are stark.
For one thing, most of the students in this school in Asan, an industrial city near the capital Seoul, may look ethnically Korean, but cannot speak the language.
“If I don’t translate into Russian for them, the other kids won’t understand any of the lessons,” says 11-year-old Kim Yana.
Yana speaks the best Korean in her class - but she and most of her 22 classmates are native Russian speakers.
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