The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973
(Part of the Hawai‘i Studies on Korea Series)
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On January 13, 1903, the first Korean immigrants arrived in Hawai'i. Numbering a little more than a hundred individuals, this group represented the initial wave of organized Korean immigration to Hawai'i. Over the next two and a half years, nearly 7,500 Koreans would make the long journey eastward across the Pacific. Most were single men contracted to augment (and, in many cases, to offset) the large numbers of existing Chinese and Japanese plantation...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824822412
ISBN13:9780824822415
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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