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The list includes those who have emigrated from South Korea as well as Korean Americans of multiple generations. There are numbers of North Koreans living in the United States, despite North Korean citizens being unable to freely emigrate out of their country. As of 2022, Americans of Korean descent composed an estimated 0.5% of the population ...
Large numbers of Koreans, including some from North Korea who had come via South Korea, have immigrated ever since, placing Korea in the top six countries of origin of immigrants to the United States [56] since 1975.
Andy Kim, Democratic United States senator from New Jersey, first Korean American elected in the United States Senate. Former Congressman from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district (2019-2024), US diplomat and national security official; Harry Kim, former Mayor of Hawaii County; Jane Kim, Supervisor in San Francisco
John Tae-yu Kim arrived in the United States in 1990 as a 30-year-old seminary student from South Korea — only to quit his studies in a spell of doubt. He eventually married, started a family ...
Korean emigration to the United States is known to have begun as early as 1903, but the Korean American community did not grow to a significant size until after the passage of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965. [27] Between 1.5 and 2 million Koreans now live in the United States, mostly in metropolitan areas.
The following list of ethnic groups is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Asian American or Asian, according to the United States Census Bureau. This list does not include cities in which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, merely a plurality (as opposed to a majority) of the ...
Like with Category:Koreatowns, pages in this category should be of places that are often called "Koreatown", "Little Seoul/Korea", or similar. If a place simply has a large Korean community, do not place it here. Use the more general Category:Korean communities in the United States instead.
Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators. Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016).