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<div align="center"><big><big><big><b>Fulbright Forum</b></big></big></big><br>
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The Korea Fulbright Commission presents<br>
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<div align="center"><big><b>“Korean Immigration to Hawaii, 1902-1905:</b></big><br>
<big><b>A Look at American and Japanese Policy toward Late Choson Korea”</b></big><br>
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<div align="center">presented by Dr. Wayne Patterson on Friday, May
30th , at 7:00 p.m.<br>
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The Fulbright Forum serves as an occasion for Fulbright grantees to
share their research and experience with members of the academic
community in South Korea. This month’s Forum will be held at the
Fulbright Building in the 6th floor
conference room. See <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.fulbright.or.kr">www.fulbright.or.kr</a> for a map
and directions
(Korean invitation attached). <u>To confirm your plan to attend,
please reply to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:executive.assistant@fulbright.or.kr">executive.assistant@fulbright.or.kr</a>
or call
02-3275-4004 for more information. </u><br>
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Summary:<br>
>From 1902 to 1905, about 7,500 Koreans went to work in the sugar
cane
fields of Hawaii. While the sugar planters wanted them as
strikebreakers against the Japanese, the American Minister to Korea,
Horace Allen, wanted to assist the planters because he opposed the US
policy of neutrality and non-intervention in Korea, wanted the State
Department to support the independence of Korea, and thought that
increasing Korean economic ties with the United States would help
accomplish this. Japan, by contrast, wanted to halt Korean immigration
to Hawaii. The Japanese Foreign Minister learned that Japanese sugar
cane workers were leaving the low wages of Hawaii for the higher wages
of California, sparking an anti-Japanese exclusion movement that Japan
as a great power could not accept. <br>
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<b>Wayne Patterson</b> holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at Yonsei University in
2006. He has taught Korean history at Harvard University, the
University of Chicago, the University of Kansas, the University of
Pennsylvania, the University of South Carolina, Korea University, Ewha
University, and the University of Wisconsin, among others. He is
currently Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of the
Philippines. His books include <i>The Korean Frontier in America:
Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910</i> (Hawaii, 1994) and<b> </b><i>The
Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973</i><b><i>
</i></b>(Hawaii, 2000). He is currently working on a book on
Chinese-Korean relations in the 1880s.<br>
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