ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the organizations of Korean Chinese entrepreneurs. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the church led efforts to secure the legal status of Korean Chinese and organized the first Korean Chinese merchant organization. After the legal status of the Korean Chinese people was stabilized, groups led by entrepreneurs appeared. As the leading group emerging from the enclave, the entrepreneur groups paid attention to the enclave’s size, character, the perception that outsiders had of it, and the government policies concerning it. After all, the existence of an enclave was directly related to their own existence. The entrepreneurs were aware of the need to preserve the enclave, and this understanding became the logical basis for their active citizenship practices.
