ABSTRACT
During the period 1903 to 1905, about seven thousand two hundred Koreans immigrated to Hawaii to work for sugar plantations. 2 The mass immigration of Korean workers to the United States almost ended after 1905, and did not resume until 1965 when the U.S. Congress amended the immigration law. Some two thousand additional Koreans came to the United States between 1906 and 1923, and almost all were picture brides of the 1903-1905 labor immigrants or students. The 1924 national origins quota system put an end to influx of any Koreans, whether labor immigrants or family members of U.S. residents. The immigration of Koreans resumed during and after the Korean War as the United States maintained close political, military, and economic relations with South Korea. More than three thousand Koreans were admitted as legal immigrants during the period of 1950-1964; the vast majority were Korean wives of U.S. serviceman stationed in South Korea and Korean children adopted by U.S. citizens.
