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	National Association of Korean Americans - Resources
		Korean Americans are celebrating year 2003 as the 100th anniversary of Korean immigration to the United States.
		Korean migration to Hawaii was largely a result of the efforts of Horace Allen, a missionary, medical doctor, businessman and self-styled diplomat and the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association.
		Korean American immigrants have settled primarily in California (345,882), New York (119,846), New Jersey (65,349), Illinois (51,453), Washington (46,880), Texas (45,571), Virginia (45,279), Maryland (39,155), Pennsylvania (31,612), Georgia (28,945), and Hawaii (23,537).
	www.naka.org /resources/history.asp (2255 words)

	Ethnic Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Until recently, Korean Americans were largely invisible in the U.S. However, like many Asian groups they had distinct immigration waves, suffered from race-based exclusionary laws, and endured a pivotal event that caused them to reexamine their place in the American landscape.
		Today, Korean Americans rank as the fourth largest Asian group in the US with a population of over one million, of which 150,000 are Korean adoptees.
		Korean Americans coined the "1.5 generation" to refer to those who came to the US as children, and the "2.0 generation" as those born in America..
	www.capaa.wa.gov /koreanamericans.html (785 words)

	LAC Korean American
		Korean Americans are so aware of the cultural differences across generations that they not only have special words to describe the first and second generations, il se and i se respectively, but also have given a name for the generation that was born in Korea and moved here before they were teenagers.
		The Korean community is still recovering from the burning of Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King verdicts.
		Because many Korean markets and businesses were located in those areas of the inner city (South Central and Koreatown) where much of the destruction occurred, Koreans suffered a disproportionate share of the total property damage, by some estimates 50% of the total loss city-wide.
	www.msmc.la.edu /ccf/LAC.Korean.html (1587 words)

	Korean Quarterly Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korean Quarterly was formed in 1997 by a group of adopted Koreans, 1.5/2nd and first generation Korean Americans and adoptive parents.
		Korean Quarterly provides independent and alternative reporting on issues of identity, racism, politics and the arts and is a forum for the ideas and creativity of the whole Korean American community.
		Korean Quarterly is a non-profit/volunteer publication created by and for the Korean American community, including adopted Koreans and their families, 1.5/2nd generation Korean Americans and bi-racial/bi-cultural Korean American people.
	www.koreanquarterly.org (162 words)

	Korean on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Korean tongue is spoken by about 68 million people in Korea (45 million in South Korea and 23 million in North Korea) and by nearly 1 million others in Japan.
		Korean is an agglutinative language in which different linguistic elements, each of which exists separately and has a fixed meaning, are often joined to form one word.
		A distinctive feature of Korean is the use of a number of different forms to indicate the respective social positions of the speaker, the individual spoken to, and the individual spoken about.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Korean.asp (874 words)

	New generation of Korean Americans is finding its political voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among Asian American groups in Washington, the Korean community is on the younger side, with most members immigrating in the late 1970s and the 1980s, Park said.
		That Korean Americans are organizing in Washington is a smart move, said S.B. Woo, president of the 80-20 Initiative, a political action committee working to increase the clout of Asian Americans nationally.
		Korean leaders in Orange County, Calif., made similar claims after the 2000 Census, saying their population was at least double the official 55,573.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/93171_korean28.shtml (1720 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Korean American History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korean Americans picket in Los Angeles against U.S. scrap iron and airplane fuel shipments to Japan, marking the first public demonstration in the United States against Japan’s invasion of China.
		The nonprofit Korean American Coalition (KAC) is formed to facilitate the Korean American community’s participation in civic, legislative and community affairs.
		Korean American businessman Jay Kim is elected to Congress, representing the 41st District of California.
	www.asianweek.com /2003_01_10/feature_timeline.html (1034 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korean Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States.
		Although they share many similar cultural characteristics with other Asian Americans, the Korean Americans are unique in terms of their strong ethnic attachment, extensive participation in Christian churches, heavy involvement in self-employed small businesses, wide geographic dispersion in settlement, and the emergence of the 1.5 generation phenomenon.
		Korean Americans are thus among the "new" groups of Americans to become another integral part of the American history of cultural pluralism and ethnic diversity.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313297/031329741x.html (467 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Korean Americans Speak Out for Peace, Demilitarization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The South Korean government asked for the case to be handled by their courts, but were denied the request.
		Korean Americans of all ages overwhelmingly support a peaceful resolution to the current crisis between the Bush administration and North Korea.
		With a myriad of concerns for Korean Americans, the main issue seems to be that of war, since Korean Americans have roots in both Korea and the United States.
	www.asianweek.com /2003_01_10/feature_demilitarization.html (1049 words)

	Korean Americans At High Risk Of Hypertension - Your Cardiology Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rates were even higher among Korean Americans ages 50 years and older: 53% of this group had hypertension.
		Rates of hypertension were higher among Korean Americans with less education and those who spoke English poorly, the report indicates.
		The higher risk among Korean Americans than their counterparts in Korea suggests an influence of the stresses brought by adjusting to a new culture, according to the report.
	www.cardiologychannel.com /CardiologyWorld/11272000_korean.shtml (379 words)

	United Methodist Ministries Among Korean Americans: New World Outlook, March/April 2000 - Update on Mission Issues ...
		The Korean American ministry of The United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations began in Hawaii in 1903.
		Of these pastors, 95 percent were born in Korea, 41 percent were ordained in the Korean Methodist Church, 90 are Korean clergywomen, and 24 are members of the transgeneration or second generation.
		The Korean American United Methodist community has experienced tensions within its membership over such issues as the role of clergywomen, the role of the laity, the need to develop either Korean-language resources or bilingual and English-language resources, and the need to develop leaders who can minister effectively to the next generation of Korean Americans.
	gbgm-umc.org /NWO/00ma/korean.html (780 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Korean Americans in King County -- A Snapshot History
		Korean architecture was influenced by Buddhism that was introduced in the sixth century.
		Between 1970-1980, the national Korean population increased by 412 percent; in King county the growth was 566 percent.
		Koreans in Seattle and King County contribute to the area's economy and rich cultural tapestry -- a "minority within a minority." They may be more familiar as owners of dry cleaners or convenience stores than as bridge builders and artists.
	www.historylink.org /_output.CFM?file_ID=3251 (2555 words)

	ICC - Asian Americans & Cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Further, Asian American females are the first American population to experience cancer as the leading cause of death.
		In fact, Asian American females are the first American population to experience cancer as the leading cause of death.
		Korean men experience the highest rate of stomach cancer of all racial/ethnic groups, and a five-fold increased rate of stomach cancer over White American men.
	iccnetwork.org /cancerfacts/cfs3.htm (1173 words)

	[Korean Centennial 1903-2003] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Arirang: The Korean American Journey," and "Arirang: The Korean American Dream", the two one hour documentaries on the history of Koreans in the United States and their contribution to America is now available to local PBS stations for potential airing in November.
		Included are some of the best and most eloquent Korean poets and prose writers in Korea and America; together with visual artists, they bring to life the dramatic, complex, and largely untold story of the Korean American experience.
		The first Korean immigrants to the United States stepped ashore at Honolulu Harbor on January 13, 1903, carrying with them great ambitions for the happiness of their families and hopes for better opportunities for their children's education.
	www.koreancentennial.org (689 words)

	Ho-Youn Kwon, Kwang Chung Kim, and R. Stephen Warner: Korean Americans and Their Religions
		These Korean Americans, including immigrants and their offspring, have founded thousands of Christian congregations and scores of Buddhist temples in the United States.
		The editors and contributors represent the fields of sociology, psychology, theology, and religious ministry and themselves embody the diversities underlying the Korean American religious experience: they are Korean immigrants who are leaders in their fields and second-generation Korean Americans beginning their careers as well as leaders of both Christian and Buddhist communities.
		Korean Americans and Their Religions is a welcome addition to the emerging literature in the sociology of "new immigrant" religious communities, and it provides the fullest portrait yet of the Korean religious experience in America.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02072-5.html (262 words)

	KOREAN AMERICANS
		A highlight of Korean lifestyles, history, folktales, poems and songs with stories and songs that reflect the wit and humor of a people who have overcome difficulties in their history.
		Surveys the immigration of Koreans to America from 1903 to the present time and identifies the contributions of individual Koreans to American life and culture.
		In this collection’s three sections -- Korean Poems, Chinese Poems, and American Poems-- quiet lyric poems acknowledge proudly, subtly, and with occasional touches of irony and humor the distinct strands within the weave of cultures of which Wong is a part.
	www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com /koreanamericans (2080 words)

	Korean Americans in the 1920 Census (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By 1920, a significant number of Koreans had immigrated to Hawaii and the United States mainland, but few if any of the immigrants' American-born children had set up their own households.
		This circumstance allows us to gain a fairly complete listing and enumeration of Korean Americans for that year's census, based on a search of the place of birth of the heads of households.
		By the time of subsequent censuses, many Korean American heads of households would report Hawaii, California, etc as their place of birth, so it is more difficult to obtain a comprehensive listing of Korean Americans for later years.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/korea/resources/1920census.html (172 words)

	Newspaper Research Journal: L.A. Times coverage of Korean Americans before, after 1992 riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American society, called a melting pot, has been slowly cracked by both serious and trivial conflicts among different ethnic groups with different backgrounds and cultures.
		News coverage of ethnic minorities has been criticized for its biased reports from "the standpoint of a white man's world."3 From this perspective, the situation of Korean Americans, as one ethnic minority group in American society, is not an exception.
		Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the image of Korean Americans reflected in the mainstream news media beforeand after the 1992 Los Angeles riots for the purpose of understanding the conceptual issues involving how U.S. newspapers cover minorities in society.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3677/is_199707/ai_n8758836 (835 words)

	Korean Americans' Humanitarian Aid to North Korea
		Korean Americans' contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest ever made by an ethnic group for a humanitarian cause in the WFP's relief aid history.
		Korean American community leaders in New York and Los Angeles launched campaigns to challenge Korean Americans to parti cipate.
		Korean Americans were very receptive to EBCF's humanitarian challenge when EBCF delegates made periodic on-the-spot checks in the DPRK, and pre sented photos and videos of food arrival and delivery.
	www.kimsoft.com /korea/us-white.htm (752 words)

	Korean Adoptions - Agency, Americans, Available, Child, Children, Foster, Four, Having, Home, Intern
		The art of movable metal type was invented in Korea before 1232, long before Gutenberg printed his first bible in Europe.[[ADS]] Koreans poetically refer to their homeland as “Choson” – “Land of the Morning Calm” – in homage to the beautifully peaceful scenery found in the mountains in the eastern part of the country.
		The South Korean authorities believe that the international adoption process in Korea should be child-oriented rather than parent-oriented – they keep the best interests of the child at the forefront throughout the international adoption process.
		It’s important to note that the Korean adoption agencies’ files on adopted Korean children are maintained indefinitely – very useful in the event that a child adopted from Korea wants to search for his/her birthmother.
	www.koreanadoptions.com (798 words)

	Asian, Pacific, & South Asian American Video: Media Resources Center UCB: Korean Americans
		Seeking to retain their traditional cultural values while adjusting to life in the U.S., Korean Americans have come into frequent and violent conflict with inner-city African Americans, and have sought, through their own ethnic civic organizations, to overcome the rejection of the community around them.
		A short photo-essay by a Korean-American woman adopted by an American family as a child who returns to the Korean orphanage where she was first brought to find out about her Korean background and identity.
		This experimental videotape focuses on a Korean woman's experience of emigrating to Hawaii at the turn of the century and her sense of displacement arising from the conflict between native identity and adopted culture.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/koreanamvid.html (1177 words)

	Korean Americans : A Juvenile Bibliography
		Tae, a Korean American eighth grader, tries to sort out her feelings when she is assigned a popular cute boy as a partner for a school report and later has a falling out with her best friend.
		Seventh grader Jin-Ha, a Korean American, finds her adjustment to life in America complicated by her mother's difficulty in learning to speak English.
		Pressured by her strict Korean immigrant parents to get into Harvard, high school senior Ellen Sung tries to find some time for romance, friendship and have fun in her small Minnesota town; but the simmering racism from some of her classmates, and even from a teacher, becomes impossible to ignore.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/mulkoreanamer.htm (659 words)

	Behavioral Risk Factor Survey of Korean Americans -- Alameda County, California, 1994
		Compared with 1995 BRFS estimates for the total California population, the prevalences of two risk factors were lower among Korean Americans: high blood pressure (12% of Korean Americans versus 21% of all California adults) and high blood cholesterol (12% versus 19%) (Table_1).
		For example, Korean American women may be uncomfortable seeking health care from non-Korean-speaking providers and, as a result, have lower levels of breast and cervical cancer sceening.
		The use of Korean surname-based telephone lists for the sampling frame may have biased the sample: Korean Americans who resided in households without telephones, who did not list their telephone numbers, or who did not have Korean surnames were excluded from the sample.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049071.htm (1296 words)

	Korean-Americans_Impact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The early Korean immigrants contributed labor to America's agricultural economy, first as a major productive force on Hawaiian sugar plantations and later as the best rice growers in California.
		As many 1.5 and second-generation Korean immigrants approach their 40s, more extensive political participation among Korean-Americans is anticipated in the near future.
		Proud of their Korean heritage, they are not merely Korean in America but Korean-Americans by choice and destiny.
	www.coe.missouri.edu /~mak0eaa/Korea/Impact.html (281 words)

	Korean-Americans Promote Peace : June 2004 : Peacework
		With 11 million Koreans still separated from their families after one of the most devastating wars in the 20th century, the intense longing for peace and reunification in Korea was finally becoming reality.
		Regardless of their opinions on the North Korean regime, the prospect of another war in Korea was unacceptable to Koreans.
		Koreans worldwide have been alarmed by the growing evidence of abuse in prisons and labor camps in North Korea.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0406/040612.htm (1010 words)

	List of Korean Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of famous Korean Americans (and Korean Canadians) who have made significant contributions to North American culture or society artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:
		John Cho, actor who appeared in the American Pie franchise and as star of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
		Judge Herbert Choy, appointed to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and first Asian American appointed to the federal bench.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_Korean_Americans (669 words)

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