Dosan Media
도산 안창호 기록관
No. 1 of 4
San Francisco, Redlands, Claremont, Riverside
1903–1916
Organizing from California
The Kongnip Hyophoe, the Shinminhoe, the Korean National Association and the Young Korean Academy: who founded them, where they met, where their headquarters were. None of it was Pachappa.
The leader
Dosan was a builder of institutions. Their headquarters were in San Francisco and Los Angeles. None of it was Pachappa.
The Korean National Association was established February 1, 1909 at its first convention in Redlands. The second convention was Claremont, 1910. The third was Riverside. The fourth, the largest and most important, was San Francisco, 1912, and the 1911 convention made Los Angeles the headquarters. Dosan was in Korea when the KNA started and did not join until 1912. Most people at Pachappa could hardly speak English, let alone debate ideals of democracy. The Korean brain trust was in San Francisco.
Philip Ahn Cuddy
The lead record
Photograph · 1909
Korean National Association, 1909
Members of the Korean National Association, Kungminhoe. Founded 1908, established 1 February 1909 at its first convention in Redlands, California.
Dosan was in Korea when the KNA started. He was not involved with the KNA until he came back from Korea in 1911. In 1912 he joined.
The first convention was Redlands, 1909. The second, Claremont, 1910. The third, Riverside. The fourth, the largest and most important, San Francisco, 1912. Riverside got one of four.
Philip Ahn Cuddy · Verified primary record
The rest of the file
Photograph · 1907
Song Seok Joon, Im Jung Ki, Yi Kang, Chung Jae Kwon and Dosan, 1907
Studio portrait, 1907: Song Seok Joon, Im Jung Ki, Yi Kang, Chung Jae Kwon, and Dosan. Two of these men, Yi Kang and Im Jung Ki, are the ones who found Pachappa Camp. Not Dosan.
Yi Kang and Im Jung Ki were sent to Riverside by the Chinmokhoe labor agency in San Francisco as a citrus work test team, before Dosan went there.
Philip Ahn Cuddy · Captioned on slide 8 of Press-Conference-Pachappa.pptx (Philip Ahn Cuddy) · Verified primary record
Photograph · 1916 · Claremont, California
Young Korean Academy at Claremont, 1916
Some thirty men in three rows around a banner reading Y.K.A. and 興士團, most wearing sashes. Young Korean Academy, Hung Sa Dan, meeting at Claremont, California, 1916. The organization was founded in San Francisco in 1913.
Philip Ahn Cuddy · Verified primary record
Document · Undated
Pak Young Man
Pak Young Man's registration card, and his portrait. The Korean leader in America who understood the concepts of American democracy most clearly.
Pak Young Man heavily influenced Korean political strategy outside of Riverside. He vehemently opposed the Provisional Government in Shanghai and was active in northern China preparing military action against Japan. Why is Pak Young Man not included in the discussion about the development of democracy?
Philip Ahn Cuddy · Slide 42 of Press-Conference-Pachappa.pptx (Philip Ahn Cuddy) · Held, not yet sourced