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On January 13, 1903, the SS Gaelic — the first immigrant ship — arrived in Honolulu. The Korean Diaspora Archive preserves over 120,000 historical records tracing the lives of Hawaii's Korean immigrants from that day onward.
■ Records of Immigration
· Ship Manifests — 7,400+ passengers who crossed the Pacific, beginning with the Gaelic
· Picture Brides — passport records of women who crossed the ocean on the strength of a single photograph
· Marriage Index — 2,000+ Korean couples wed in Hawaii (State Archives)
· Death Records — the last records of the first generation, marked "Korean" in the nationality column
· Unified Persons — a database linking names scattered across many records
· Media — photographs and films from plantations to churches
■ Independence Movement & Military Service
· Patriots — those who sent independence funds from their plantation wages
· Military Service — second-generation Koreans who fought at Normandy, Luzon, and in their fathers' homeland (cross-verified with NARA and Kungminbo)
· Unlocated Graves — a project to find forgotten independence patriots
■ Newspaper Archive — a century of Korean press
· Kungminbo (1909–1963), 80,000 articles · American Korean (1929–1941)
· Korea Times Hawaii (1973–2010) · Brandon Palmer newspaper index
■ How to use
· Unified search across ships, passports, marriages, newspapers, and graves
· DB Story — read the whole archive as a five-chapter immigration narrative
· Family cross-search — follow one family from record to record
· Contribute — send photos and stories to be added after review
Membership is free. Open to descendants searching for ancestors, scholars of immigration history, and everyone new to this story.
A nonprofit historical archive operated by the Jemulpo Club.
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What's New in K이민사
1.4
September 10, 2026
v1.4 Update • Redesigned home with collection groups, added Korea Times Hawaii index • New collections: Hawaii marriage index, military service, death records • Person detail now shows all original record fields • Improved family cross-search and family connections • Fixed ship arrival year display
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