Divided Families’History Gallery

1869-1953

The Kisa famine; initial impetus

for the large scale emigration

to Manchuria and the maritime

provinces of Siberia

– the beginning of the

Korean diaspora

1869-1875

First modern or post 1869 Korean immigrants to Manchuria: 251,000; economic reason

1881-1910

The first Korean Americans arrive in Hawaii as laborers.

1903

Korea’s loss of sovereignty and colonization by Japan: millions of Koreans disperse as a result of colonization

1910-1945

Korean War: Seoul, the capital, is taken in 3 days.Families separate, thinking they will only be gone a few days.

But after the armistice, the Korean Demilitarized

Zone (DMZ), at the 38th parallel between North and South Korea,

becomes the most heavily militarized border in the world.

1950 -1953

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