Russians in Korea do not form a very large population, but they have a history going back to the Korean Empire. The community of Russian subjects/citizens in Korea has historically included not just ethnic Russians, but members of minority groups of Russia as well, such as Tatars, Poles, and, more recently, return migrants from among the Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Koreans.

Koryo-saram or Koryoin are ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states who descend from Koreans who were living in the Russian Far East.