That group of Korean immigrants established the first Korean Methodist Church in Honolulu. Korean immigrants displayed a higher rate of religious participation because missionaries such as Horace Allen and George Herbert Jones played a crucial role in recruiting more than half of the first 102 immigrants from the Naeri Methodist Church in the Incheon Area. diplomat and Presbyterian missionary Horace Allen started to recruit Korean laborers. When the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned the workers from recruiting Chinese laborers, the U.S. When Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898, the plantation owners in Hawaii needed cheap labor and recruited the first influx of immigrant labor from Canton, China. By 1905, more than 7,226 Koreans had come to Hawaii (637 women 465 children) to escape the famines and turbulent political climate of Korea. The first significant wave of immigration started on January 13, 1903, when a shipload of Korean immigrants arrived in Hawaii to work on pineapple and sugar plantations. Beginning in 1884, American Presbyterian and Methodists missionaries successfully converted many Koreans to Christianity, and also provided avenues for the Koreans to immigrate to America-almost half of the first group of Korean immigrants were Christians. Although a few students and politicians came to the United States around 1884 after the diplomatic relations between the United States and Korea were established, they were a small minority-Yu Gil-jun (1856-1914), the first Korean student in the United States, was one of the prominent immigrants during the 1880s. The immigration of Koreans can be largely divided into three periods: the first wave from 1903 to 1949, the second wave from 1950 to 1964, and the contemporary period. The First Wave of Korean Immigrants: 1903-1949
History of Korean Immigration to America, from 1903 to Present
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