French people in Korea

French people in Korea

Ethnic group
|group=French people in Korea
population=2,700
regions=Seoul
langs=French, Korean
rels=Catholicism, others?
related-c=French people

French people in Korea have a history dating back to as early as the seventeenth century, when French Catholic missionaries first came to the country. [cite book|title=The Gospel in All Lands|date=1890|publisher=Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society|pages=pp. 413-414] However, most missionaries came after the 1886 establishment of relations between France and Joseon Dynasty; the treaty signed between the two countries gave French missionaries the right to evangelise in Korea. [cite journal|title=구한말의 주한 프랑스인 사회 - 《뮈텔주교일기》를 중심으로 (French Society in the Late Chosŏn Era - based Bishop Mutel's Diary)|last=Choe|first=Jong-go|pages=79–117|volume=27|date=December 2006|accessdate=2007-05-31|url=http://www.dbpia.co.kr/view/ar_view.asp?pid=569&isid=38167&arid=802176&topMenu=&topMenu1=|journal=Journal of the Research Foundation of Korean Church History] [cite journal|title=조불조약이 초기 개신교의 선교활동에 미친 영향 (The Impact of the Korean-French Treaty on Protestantism in the Late 19th Century)|last=Yi|first=Jin-gu|volume=27|date=December 2006|accessdate=2007-05-31|url=http://www.dbpia.co.kr/view/ar_view.asp?pid=569&isid=38167&arid=802174&topMenu=&topMenu1=|journal=Journal of the Research Foundation of Korean Church History] Of the estimated 2,700 French nationals in South Korea as of 2006, the largest concentration can be found in Seoul's Seocho-gu district, where Korea's only school using French as the medium of instruction moved in 1984. Most are employed by French multinationals operating in the country. [cite news|url=http://shc.seoul.go.kr/page/?section=hotline/view&brd_cd=N651&page=1&seq_no=2890|publisher=Seoul Metropolitan Government|title=No melting pot, but Seoul still flavored with several dashes of migrant communities|date=2006-12-19|accessdate=2007-05-31] [cite news|url=http://english.kbs.co.kr/life/path/1393425_14466.html|publisher=Korean Broadcasting System|title=French Village in Banpo-dong|last=Lee|first=Kyung-Taek|date=2006|accessdate=2007-05-31]

Notable individuals

* Siméon-François Berneux, Catholic missionary
* Victor Emile Marie Joseph Collin de Plancy, French diplomat

See also

* Koreans in France
* French Campaign against Korea, 1866

References

External links

* [http://www.afseoul.or.kr/ Alliance Française Séoul]
* [http://www.fkcci.com/ French Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry]


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