SOC218H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Language Barrier, Yonsei University, Korean Canadians
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E. g. 3 similarities b/w chinese and korean immigration. Canadian missionaries went to korea and started building up the relationships. It was very costly to send missionaries decided that they would bring korean students to canada to educate and train missionary campus. The number was very small in 1950, inly a small group of korean students (about 100) came to canada. A lot of koreans settled in toronto, instead of vancouver. Some korean students decided to stay in canada and changed their status from visa students to permanent residence status; finished their education in canada. This group of students became the backbone of the intellectual life of the community. Formalized pragmatic relationship between canada and korea; intense personal contact b/w canadian missionaries and koreans. Increase in korean christian immigrants to canada in the early 1970s. There"s not much info about koreans before 1980s because they were very small -group. In 1966, about 100 korean settlers in toronto.
