[KS] Fulbright Forum - May 30, 2008

[Executive Assistant]

*Fulbright Forum*

The Korea Fulbright Commission presents

*"Korean Immigration to Hawaii, 1902-1905:*
*A Look at American and Japanese Policy toward Late Choson Korea"*

presented by Dr. Wayne Patterson on Friday, May 30th , at 7:00 p.m.

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 
www.fulbright.or.kr for a map and directions (Korean invitation 
attached). _To confirm your plan to attend, please reply to 
executive.assistant at fulbright.or.kr or call 02-3275-4004 for more 
information. _

Summary:
 >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.

*Wayne Patterson* 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 /The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 
1896-1910/ (Hawaii, 1994) and* */The Ilse: First-Generation Korean 
Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973/*/ /*(Hawaii, 2000).  He is currently 
working on a book on Chinese-Korean relations in the 1880s.

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