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Korean Americans (Korean: 한국계 미국인) are Americans who are of full or partial Korean ethnic descent. The majority of Korean Americans trace their ancestry to South Korea. The term Korean Americans (also rendered as Korean-Americans) usually encompasses citizens of the United States of full or partial Korean descent.
Figures for Koreans and all Asians based on mixed-race and mixed-group populations, regardless of Hispanic origin. See methodology for more detail. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2017-2019 American Community Survey (IPUMS). Note: Poverty status is determined for individuals in housing units and noninstitutional group quarters.
More than 1.8 million Korean Americans lived in the United States as of 2022, accounting for 8% of all Asian Americans, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. A majority of Korean Americans (57%) are immigrants, similar to the share among all Asian Americans (54%).
Immigrants from the Korean peninsula, who come overwhelmingly from South Korea, represent the tenth largest immigrant population in the United States, making up slightly more than 2 percent of the 44.9 million immigrants in 2019, and are the fifth largest group from Asia.
In 1948, Korea was divided into two political entities—South Korea supported by the United States and a communist government in North Korea supported by the Soviet Union. During the Korean War (1950-1953), the second wave of Korean immigrants moved to America.
Many Korean Americans attend church, where services are held in Korean and in English. In 2018, Mr. Kim was the first Korean American from the East Coast to be elected to Congress. Two years later ...
Korean Americans are about evenly split when it comes to views of Japan. Some 36% of Korean adults have a favorable view of the country, 34% have a neutral opinion and 29% have an unfavorable view. Korean Americans hold more neutral views of Vietnam, the Philippines and India.
In 2017, approximately 1 million Korean immigrants—the vast majority from South Korea, with just a tiny fraction from North Korea—resided in the United States, representing 2.4 percent of the 44.5 million immigrants in the country.
Among the over 2 million Korean Americans, 984,605 (48%) were born in America, while 1,066,967 were born outside of the United States. The 2024 Census report identified 1,042,199 people born in Korea, with 689,165 of them having become U.S. citizens.
It's as if Korean culture has always been a part of America, but, in reality, the Korean community has endured war, exclusion, and famine to make it in this country, so let's look at the three...