Just some Facts for Ya

• 11% of the Asian-American population is Korean.
• Between 1903 to 1920 about 8,000 Koreans came to Hawaii. Most were literate but were driven by poverty or were political refugees.
• The first Korean immigrants were men who worked on sugar cane plantations in Hawaii.
• They eventually went to the mainland to work in copper mines in Utah, coal mines in Colorado and Wyoming, railroads in Arizona, and even the salmon fisheries in Alaska.

• The next wave of Koreans to come were picture brides who worked as janitors, waitresses, and domestics.
• Korean immigration was restricted until 1965, when a new Immigration Act was passed.

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