Speaker: Rosemarie Youngnan Nahm
Moderator: Yu Bin Kim

This webinar introduces the lesser-known history of Korean immigration to the U.S. that began in San Francisco, California. As Japan tightened its grip in Korea in the early 1900s, students and political exiles landed in San Francisco seeking refuge. Some of the laborers who first went to work at Hawaiian sugar plantations made a secondary migration to San Francisco starting in 1904. And after Japan’s occupation of Korea in 1910, another 1,000 Korean students, activists, wives, children and "picture brides" landed at Angel Island in the San Francisco bay. This program will provide a rare glimpse into the lives, events and contributions of these early Korean pioneers.

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