IMMIGRATION KOREA & THE U.S.

Who decided to immigrate? When did you and/or your family immigrate? Did you feel satisfied with your life in Korea? Did you expect better quality of life when you decided to immigrate?

Yes
CHANGYOUNG
78% Yes
80%
CHOI

69%
No
No 20%
31% 22%
you and/or your spouse your parents older generation
56% 38% 6% 1960 1990 present
When you retire, do you want to go back to Korea?
How old are you? Why did you immigrate?
How often do you have homesick?
No
39%
Yes
61%

20s 30s 40s 50s 60s financial reason invitation from family children’s education Etc(study, marriage)
10% 13% 40% 33% 3% 19% 29% 23% 29%
never once a while often always
19% 52% 19% 10%

RELIGION Who attend services (church, temple, etc)? Do you make friends from temple or church?

90% 25%
of Korean immigrants
have a religion.
of Korean immigrants
spend more than
International
7%
KOREAN IMMIGRANT
Korean American Yes No
6hours in a week for
their religion. 90% 3% 87% 13% FRIENDSHIP
Do you keep in touch with friends in Korea?

PARENTHOOD 여보
오랜만 세요 여보
우리 이야 그동 세요 야
딸 안
뒷바라 은 올해 대 잘 지냈
Do you have close friends in the States who you know from Korea?
...
겠어 지하느라고 학들어갔어
넌 등
연락이 잘 지내고 골이 휘
없 있
한국오 어 왜이 냐? 통
면연 렇
락해라 게
Where were your children born? Do/Did you send them to Korean school after regular school?

가나다
Yes 라마바 No
Korea 50% 아 50%
38% The U.S.
62% Yes No
80% 20%

Do you want them to know Korean culture? Who do you want them to date and/or marry?
Do you have close friends who don’t speak Korean?
Anyone they like to date
Korean persons preferred for dates

Anyone they like to marry

Korean persons preferred for marriage Yes No
33%
67%

No little bit pretty much a lot Yes No

4% 11% 36% 44% 56%
50%
 LANGUAGE IDENTITY Who do you think you are? How do you like people to recognize you?

Were you in trouble with figuring out your identity in your adolescene? Did you like having Korean appearance? Korean American

Korean-Americans who
understand and/or speak Korean
Korean-Americans who
speak Korean with their parents ? ?
Yes No
Korean-Americans who 14% Korean
23%
speak Korean with their siblings you people

82%
No
86% Yes
77% American

of Korean Americans
feel more comfortable
with English.

90.9%
of Korean Americans
KOREAN CULTURE

100%
think they should know
Do you watch Korean dramas, series? Have you been to Korea? Are you willing to do long-term stay in Korea?
Korean language.
지금 보실 영상은
정신과 전문의의 조언에
따라 진행된 무한도전멤버 Yes
들의 관찰카메라입니다.
카메라가 없는 자연스러운
상황에서 보이는 버릇이나
It all began on New Year’s 95%
day in my thirty-second
언행을 정신과 전문의가 of Korean Americans say they want
Yes
year of being single. Once again, No
면밀히 관찰 후 I found myself on my own.
이들의 성격 스타일
and going to my mother’s
annual turkey curry
Yes 45% their children to know Korean culture
55% and language.
77% No
23%

KOREAN AMERICAN
Do you have close Korean friends from Korea?

FRIENDSHIP Yes LOVE Who would you like to date and/or marry? Anyone you like to date

Who mostly are your close friends?

40% No Korean persons preferred for dates
Internationals 60%
22.7% Anyone you like to marry
Korean persons preferred for marriage
Americans
13.6%

Do your parents influence you on choosing who you date and/or marry? Who do your parents prefer for you to date and/or marry?
Do you feel cultural differences from them?

Koreans ? Yes
22.7% 23%

Korean Americans Date

Yes
Marriage
41% 45%

Yes No No No Korean doesn’t

matter
77% 55% 68%
50% 50% 32%