The Korean American Centennial Commemoration, January – December 2003
One hundred years ago, on January 13, 1903, the SS Gaelic arrived in Honolulu Harbor, carrying the first significant group of Korean immigrants to the New World. Most would become laborers on Hawaii’s large sugar cane plantations.
A century later, here at the Smithsonian, we celebrated a century’s worth of achievements from the Korean American community, with diverse monthly programs that comprised the ground-breaking Korean American Centennial Commemoration. KACC was the first-ever sustained focus on a single ethnic group in the history of the Smithsonian Institution.
Click here for an overview of KACC, including the calendar of events throughout 2003.
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