PENNSYLVANIA, June 16 - WHEREAS, The Korean-American community is making important

contributions in distinguished career fields such as law,

medicine, business, education, architecture and the arts; and

WHEREAS, Philip Jaisohn, a Korean political refugee who made

his home in Media, Pennsylvania, made Philadelphia a central

overseas base for supporting Korean independence; and

WHEREAS, Inspired by the First and Second Continental

Congress of the United States held in Philadelphia, Philip

Jaisohn, Syngman Rhee, who is the first President of the

Republic of Korea, and Han Kyong Jung organized the First Korean

Congress in Philadelphia where they proclaimed Korean

Declaration of Independence from April 14th to April 16th, 1919;

and

WHEREAS, Philip Jaisohn was a noted champion of the Korean

Independence Movement in America and established the Korean

Information Bureau to publish the Korea Review for the cause of

political and religious freedom for Korea and the Far East; and

WHEREAS, Philip Jaisohn and Rev. Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins founded

the League of Friends of Korea that was organized in 21 American

cities as well as in London and Paris with 25,000 members to

educate the general public and community and government leaders

about the aspirations of Korean people on the independence for

Korea; and

WHEREAS, First generation Korean immigrants established

America as a new home and naturalized to establish a new

homeland for their children and future generations of Korean

Americans; and

WHEREAS, Korean Americans have made significant contributions

to the economic vitality and fabric of the United States and the

global marketplace in all facets of fields in government, for-

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