(L to R) Korean Commission staff C. Lee, P.S. Min, and Henry Chung DeYoung in one of the rooms of the Korean Commission, Sept 1921. Image courtesy of the USC Korean Heritage and Digital Libraries. Korean American Digital Archive Collection
This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: Korean Commission at the Continental Trust Building
This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: Korean Commission at the Continental Trust Building
Finding Asian American History: Korean Commission at the Continental Trust Building
The Korean Commission office was located on the ninth floor of the Continental Trust Building from 1919 into the mid-1920s. It was established by Syngman Rhee to coordinate fundraising and to lobby for US political support for Korean independence…