why koreans came to usa

WHEN AND WHY DID THEY COME?         At the end of the 19th century the USA received it's first refugees from Korea, three pro-Japanese activists seeking exile after an unsuccessful attempt to over throw the government. (Moynihan 45) They were followed by 64 students between 1890 and 1905 to purse further education in the USA. Between 1902 and 1905, 7,000 Korean immigrants arrived in Hawaii. (Thernstrom) From 1903 to 1905, 65 ships carrying 7,226 Koreans, set sail from Inchon for Honolulu. (Bandon 18) When each group arrived they …

…morning and made my         breakfast.         I had to be out to the field at five o'clock. I worked ten         hours a day         with a sixty-seven cent wage. My supervisor ... was very         strick with us. He ... did not allow us to stand up straight once we         started to work. He treated us like cows and horses. We carried         our number all the time as an identification card and we were never         called by name, but number."