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Korean Immigration: Immigrating To America
Korean Immigration
During the occupation of Korea by Japan, thousands of Koreans were immigrating to America, through the Angel Island immigration station. Of the thousands of people two of them were Edwend lee’s parents.
Edwind lee’s father came through a fake identity.He had to leave Korea because of the annotation.Also he left because of the take of over of it.
Six Korean’s had to go back to Korea because they had the hookworm so the whole ship had to go back and drop them off.His first job was picking grapes.He went to college but he did not like it at all. Edwin lee’s mother came under an alias known as Kin Bok Sow. She came on October 1st 1917 when she was just 17. Then in September 7th 1919 she got married.

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