KoreanAmericanStory.org compiled the data from the Decennial US Census to determine the number of Korean-American population from 1910 – 2010, broken down by State.
It is a fascinating overview of the history of Korean-American immigration, but to better understand the political and historical reasons behind these immigration patterns.
Click on the image to see a larger PDF file of the Korean American population spread sheet.
An anthology of 12 post-1945 Korean fiction, in translation, includes brief biographies of each author.
Lillias Horton was a doctor who went to Korea in 1888 as a Christian humanitarian missionary, whereupon she married one of the first Presbyterian missionaries to land in Korea, Horace Underwood. They traveled throughout Korea for fifteen years,and were connected to the Korean court.
This fictionalized story tells the sorrowful story of a simple orphan girl, in postwar Korea (mid-late 1950s) who works in a gourd shop.
A Korean war vet returns after 21 years to search for the houseboy, a onetime street urchin, he had during the war.
Kim’s paintings often engage with themes of vulnerability and contrast, and her artistic influences extend beyond visual artists to include writers (such as T.S. Eliot and the Korean poet Midang), her grandmother, and her friend who was a flower vendor on 14th Street.
One summer my wife and I toured half of the Silk Road through China. We were dating then. It was my first time traveling in a guided group—I had always traveled alone, cut off and trying for immersion, which might have been a way of reliving of my adoption.
In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, documentary filmmaker Pearl Park talks about mental illness, and shares about her recent work Can, which features a Vietnamese-American man and his battle with bipolar disorder.
In this month’s KoreanAmericanStory on KRB 87.7 FM, Executive Director of Restore NYC, Jimmy Lee, talks about his personal journey of passion, faith and social change, starting from working on Wall Street, discovering a need to help women with AIDS in Africa, and coming back to the U.S. to start an NGO that brings shelter and aid to sex-trafficking victims in New York.
As the parent of an Asian American child, do you brace yourself for that moment? Or what about as the parent of a Black child in America?