The paper examines contemporary processes of diasporization as a dynamic interplay between established offline social institutions and evolving forms of online communication. Digitalization does not replace traditional diasporic institutions, but reorganizes how individuals are created, a local ommunication system, community mobilization, representation and relations with countries they originate and live in. ‘Digital diaspora’, ‘virtual diaspora’ and ‘e-diaspora’ are useful in the analysis of diasporic existence yet not sufficient to bridge the physical and virtual dimensions of the social formation. In order to do so, we develop the concept of a hybrid off -online diaspora, where the structures of territorial institutions, interpersonal networks, digital platforms and transnational communication are related. Within the framework of paper’s concept, the Koryo saram are examined as a historically interconnected ethnic community that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, became fragmented into nationally differentiated diaspora segments while simultaneously developing new forms of transnational reconnection through digital networks.