Korean Ethnic Minority

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Korean people mainly live in Jilin Province. Some of them reside in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia Provinces as well as some major cities in China. The largest concentrated community of Korean people lies in Korean Autonomous Region of Jilin Province. It accounts almost half of the population of Korean Ethnic Minority in China.

Besides, Changbai Korean Autonomous Region, which is located in the cuddle of Changbai Mountain, is another major concentrated community of Korean people. Korean people have their own spoken and written language and it belongs to Altai language system. The written form of Korean language is phoneme character. It was invented in 1414 in the ruling period of Tang Dynasty and originally called Zhengyin. This kind of characters seems similar in shape to that of Chinese Characters.

The concentrated communities of Korean Ethnic Minority , especially their frontier area, have comprehensively developed agriculture, forestry, husbandry, fishery, and processing industries. The frontier area is reputed as the "Village of Rice" in North China, and it is also one of the major production sites of baked tobacco all over the country. Scalper raised in the area is one of the five quality breeds of scalper in China. Besides, Gen-seng and Hairy Deer-horn are the local produces famous at home and abroad. Korean people are well known for singing and dancing. Males are good at wrestling and football, and females like playing springboard and swing. Korean dancing include tambourin dance, sword dance, fan dance, and witch dance.