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	National Association of Korean Americans - Resources
		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).
		Korean Americans are celebrating year 2003 as the 100th anniversary of Korean immigration to the United States.
		In Observance of Centennial of Korean Immigration to the U.S. » Korean American Population Data
	www.naka.org /resources/history.asp (2255 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1
		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.
		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.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313297/031329741x.html (467 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 years from 1910-1940, when Japan occupied Korean, were particularly difficult for many Korean Americans as they thought of themselves more as exiles than immigrants and felt they were without a country.
		The museum is reaching out to the various generations of Korean Americans with lively programs such as the reading and book signing event they sponsored publicizing the publication of East to America.
	www.msmc.la.edu /ccf/LAC.Korean.html (1587 words)

	Korean on Encyclopedia.com
		U.N. Re-education camp for Chinese and North Korean prisoners.
		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)

	Ethnic Communities
		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..
		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.
	www.capaa.wa.gov /koreanamericans.html (785 words)

	Korean Quarterly Home
		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.
		Korean Quarterly was formed in 1997 by a group of adopted Koreans, 1.5/2nd and first generation Korean Americans and adoptive parents.
	www.koreanquarterly.org (162 words)

	New generation of Korean Americans is finding its political voice
		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.
		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.
		The non-profit alliance was birthed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said state Sen. Paull Shin, D-Mukilteo, who in 1992 became the first Korean American elected to any state legislature.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/93171_korean28.shtml (1720 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Korean American History
		Korean American businessman Jay Kim is elected to Congress, representing the 41st District of California.
		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.
	www.asianweek.com /2003_01_10/feature_timeline.html (1034 words)

	United Methodist Ministries Among Korean Americans: New World Outlook, March/April 2000 - Update on Mission Issues GRAPHICS VERSION
		The Korean American ministry of The United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations began in Hawaii in 1903.
		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.
		Christ Methodist Church, the first Korean American Protestant Church in the United States, was established in Honolulu.
	gbgm-umc.org /NWO/00ma/korean.html (780 words)

	Ho-Youn Kwon, Kwang Chung Kim, and R. Stephen Warner: Korean Americans and Their Religions
		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.
		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.
		These Korean Americans, including immigrants and their offspring, have founded thousands of Christian congregations and scores of Buddhist temples in the United States.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02072-5.html (262 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Korean Americans in King County -- A Snapshot History
		Kim helped found the Korean American Grocers Association of Washington in 1988 and served as its president several times.
		In 1971, Herbert Choy became the first Asian American appointed as judge to a federal court; he was also the first lawyer of Korean descent to practice law in the U.S. A 1980 community directory listed names and addresses of 1,110 Korean American Seattle residents.
		Under the 1940 Alien Registration Act, Japan's occupation of their homeland meant Korean Americans were forced to identify themselves as "enemy aliens" and Japanese subjects.
	www.historylink.org /_output.CFM?file_ID=3251 (2555 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Korean Americans Speak Out for Peace, Demilitarization
		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.
		The South Korean government asked for the case to be handled by their courts, but were denied the request.
	www.asianweek.com /2003_01_10/feature_demilitarization.html (1049 words)

	Korean Americans At High Risk Of Hypertension - Your Cardiology Community
		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.
		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.
	www.cardiologychannel.com /CardiologyWorld/11272000_korean.shtml (379 words)

	ICC - Asian Americans & Cancer
		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.
		A significant number of Korean Americans have never heard of the Pap smear test.
		In fact, Asian American females are the first American population to experience cancer as the leading cause of death.
	iccnetwork.org /cancerfacts/cfs3.htm (1173 words)

	KOREAN AMERICANS
		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.
		When he arrives in the United States, full of fear, anger, and confusion, an understanding Korean-American man helps him adjust and bridges the gap between Kim Moo Yong and his adoptive parents.
	www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com /koreanamericans (2080 words)

	Korean Adoptions - Agency, Americans, Available, Child, Children, Foster, Four, Having, Home, Intern
		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.
		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.
		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)

	[Korean Centennial 1903-2003]
		"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.
		Korean American Digital Archive, University of Southern California
	www.koreancentennial.org (689 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.
		Alice, who is Korean American, considers herself 100% American.
		A Korean American girls' third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother fell more comfortable in the United States.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/mulkoreanamer.htm (659 words)

	Korean Americans' Humanitarian Aid to North Korea
		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.
		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.
	www.kimsoft.com /korea/us-white.htm (752 words)

	Korean-Americans Promote Peace : June 2004 : Peacework
		Many Korean-Americans believe that these and other reported abuses deserve urgent attention and that a fundamental change in the North Korean government is imperative.
		Sanghyuk Shin a public health researcher and a member of Korean Americans United for Peace in the San Francisco Bay Area (koreansforpeace@yahoo.com).
		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.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0406/040612.htm (1010 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.
		An extensive documentary of the history of Korean American immigration to the United States.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/koreanamvid.html (1177 words)

	Korean Americans in the 1920 Census
		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.
		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 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.
	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
		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.
		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.
		This study examined and empirically compared how Korean Americans were portrayed in the Los Angeles Times before and after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3677/is_199707/ai_n8758836 (835 words)

	KAHS Links
		Korean American Coalition, D.C. - The Washington, D.C. chapter of the Korean American Coalition.
		- The Korean American internet community for the Washington DC area (most pages are in Korean).
		- THE monthly newsmagazine for the Korean American community in the US.
	www.kahs.org /links.html (2751 words)

	Bay Area's conflicted reaction to beheading / Korean Americans divided on response
		For many Korean Americans in the Bay Area, the beheading of a South Korean civilian contractor in Iraq this week strengthened their support for the war.
		Although anti-war Korean Americans decried the beheading, for them the killing was a reminder of the need to find an alternative, diplomatic solution in Iraq.
		The beheading of Kim Sun Il by Muslim militants was the second time in the past month that local Korean Americans' attention was drawn to Iraq.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/24/MNGN57B0OG1.DTL (531 words)

	CELCEE - Korean-American Entrepreneurs
		One such organization is the Korean American Society for Entrepreneurs (KASE), chartered by a variety of executives and professionals "to foster and support a growing network of Korean Americans interested in starting or playing key roles in professionally managed high growth companies in the United States" (KASE, 2000).
		For Korean immigrants, the American dream of building a better future for their families is alive and well.
		Before World War II, Korean-Americans were the smallest Asian community to settle in the United States.
	www.celcee.edu /products/digest/Dig02-04.html (1640 words)

	Korean-Americans_Impact
		Proud of their Korean heritage, they are not merely Korean in America but Korean-Americans by choice and destiny.
		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.
		Despite such a short history of immigration to the United States, Korean-Americans' participation in American politics has been remarkable.
	www.coe.missouri.edu /~mak0eaa/Korea/Impact.html (281 words)

	Korean Americans United for Peace
		Korean Americans United for Peace (KAUP) is a grassroots organization composed of students, doctors, educators, policy advocates, and community workers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
		You can contribute to the Korean Americans United for Peace campaign by:
		The United States' policy of confrontation and hostility in North Korea is threatening to undermine years of progress by the Korean people towards building peace on the Korean peninsula.
	www.apicaw.com /kaup.html (503 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:
		Philip Jaisohn, first Korean to become an American citizen; first Korean American to receive an American medical degree
		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)

	MSN Encarta - Korean Americans
		Korean Americans, residents of the United States who trace their ancestry to Korea.
		Most Korean Americans are immigrants who have come to the United...
		Become a subscriber today and gain access to:
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761587496/Korean_Americans.html (90 words)

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