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Abstract:
This study aims to analyze the autobiographical records left by Chun Yun-hee, who came to Hawaii in 1915 as a Korean picture bride, through the lenses of gender, family, labor, and entrepreneurship. First, this research examines the motivations and causes for her transcountry mobility during Korea’s Japanese colonial era and subsequent local-level relocations within the Hawaiian Islands. Second, it sheds light on her labor and economic activities in the period after her migration to the United States, particularly focusing on her involvement in Hawaii’s lodging business. It examines why and how she entered and operated lodging businesses, specifically in terms of capital, labor, and customers; how gender and geographical conditions affected her entrepreneurial activities; and how she interpreted the meaning of her work.
About the Speaker:
Jin Suk Bae is Assistant Professor at the Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification at Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea. She received her PhD at Brown University’s Department of American Studies. Her academic interest lies in researching the regional and global Korean diaspora in general and the onward or multiple migration of South Koreans in particular. Dr. Bae is the author of Korean Immigrants from Latin America: Fitting into Multiethnic New York (Lexington Books, 2021).
