The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973

by Wayne Patterson

Book Overview

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: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"