Sikhism In South Korea
Sikhism in South Korea () is a minority religion. History According to records, Sikhism, Sikhs have been in South Korea since the country gained independence from Korea under Japanese rule, colonial Japanese rule. Early Sikh pioneers came to the country as traders and businessmen exporting textiles in the country to India and the Middle East. However, these early settlers were forced to return home due to strict residency laws at the time. After the first settlement period, Sikh labourers began migrating to the country in the 1980s due to a lack of opportunities in their homeland. Some Sikh families have been in the country for over 50 years. The first South Korean gurdwara was established in 1998 in Sungri on rented property but it burnt down in a fire after one and a half years. Thereafter, the local congregations gathered funds to buy another rental property, where a new gurdwara was officially established in 2004. There are about 550 Sikhs in South Korea, now recently the S ...
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Punjabi Language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 88.9 million native speakers according to the 2023 Pakistani census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, according to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. It is spoken among a Punjabi diaspora, significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Gulf states. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written using the Gurmukhi, Gurmukhi alphabet, based on the Brahmic scripts, Indic scripts. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and t ...
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