Resources
This Oral History Project on Korean-Americans list was created by Sanghun Cho, sanghuncho@library.ucla.edu, at UCLA Korean Studies Library for the 2019 Oral History Association meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Legacy Project
- Korean American Story (koreanamericanstory.org)
- UCLA
- Korean-American Oral History Project Collection, 1970-1979
- Oral history source materials on Korean-American history during 1903-45
- Korean Americans in Los Angeles after 1965
- Oral history source materials of full-life histories of a number of prominent Korean-Americans who represent their community’s tremendous expansion during the period after federal anti-Asian immigration laws were repealed in 1965.
- UC Davis
- UC Riverside
- USC
- https://kaoralhistories-yokcenter.weebly.com/
- Series of OH on Korean-American during 1903-1965
- https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=235047&p=1559984
Other Institutions:
- Korean American Oral Histories by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center sharing short films about K-American experience
- Oral History Master of Arts by Columbia University – student works of oral history on Korean Americans
- Korean War Oral History Collection
- University of Florida
- University of Kentucky
- Rutgers University
- Palo Alto College
Oral History in South Korea
- Began in late 1980s – interview series on Korean contemporary histories published in academic journal
- 2003 – First book on oral history (case study on a village history during the Korean War)
- 2004 – project on development of oral history source materials by National Institute of Korean History
- 2008 – Korean Oral History Research Center founded
- 2009 – Korean Oral History Association founded
- 2010 – Korean Journal of Oral History began
New Areas that Need to be Developed:
- L.A Riot in 1992
- Participation or Korean-Americans in Korean democracy and unification movement
- Korean community’s participation in 84 LA Olympics