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[LAT] Legal fight over century-old Korean papers found in L.A. ends

February 24, 2016
For more than a decade, 15,000 to 16,000 pages of documents that chronicle the very early years of Korean immigration to California have been in limbo. (Kenneth Klein / USC East Asian Library)

For more than a decade, 15,000 to 16,000 pages of documents that chronicle the very early years of Korean immigration to California have been in limbo. (Kenneth Klein / USC East Asian Library)

[LOS ANGELES TIMES] – Thirteen years ago, crews renovating a modest, white-walled single-story building in Exposition Park made a discovery in the attic crawl space.

The building, a Los Angeles city-designated historic landmark, had served as the headquarters of one of the oldest Korean groups to be established in the U.S. The Korean National Assn. had functioned as a government in exile, and led independence efforts against Japanese colonial rule in the Korean peninsula in the early 1900s.

In the attic, contractors stumbled upon century-old documents, yellowing and brittle, older than any other known trove of documents chronicling the early years of Korean immigration in California. Among the stacks of papers was a 1919 letter to President Woodrow Wilson, asking for his help and protesting the “brutal force” being used to suppress independence efforts back home.

For more than a decade, the 15,000 to 16,000 pages of documents, dating to 1906, have been in limbo. [READ MORE]

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