May Webinar
THURSDAY, May 205, 2021, 7 PM - 8 PM CDT
BEGINNINGS OF KOREAN IMMIGRATION IN SAN FRANCISCO (1902-1920)
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.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER, ROSEMARIE YOUNGNAN NAHM
Rosemarie is a first generation Korean-American who has been researching Korean immigration history since 2015. She is the vice president of the board of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), a non-profit whose mission is to preserve and raise awareness about the Angel Island immigration history as well as all Pacific Coast immigration. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR, YU BIN KIM
Yu Bin Kim is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Missouri (MU). He is also a 2020-21 Graduate Fellow at the MU Institute for Korean Studies (MU-IKS). His interests are both interstate and intrastate conflicts. Follow him on Twitter at @Yubs89.