- published: 08 May 2015
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Korean Americans (Korean: 한국계 미국인, Hanja: 韓國系美國人, Hangukgye Migukin) are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea. The Korean American community comprises about 0.6% of the United States population, or about 1.7 million people, and is the fifth largest Asian American subgroup, after the Chinese American, Filipino American, Indian American, and Vietnamese American communities. The U.S. is home to the second largest Korean diaspora community in the world after the People's Republic of China.
While people living in North Korea cannot leave or emigrate from their country with rare exceptions, there are numbers of people of North Korean origin living in the U.S., primarily those who fled to the south during the Korean War and then later migrated to the United States. Also, since the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 allowed North Korean defectors to be admitted as refugees, about 130 have settled in the U.S. under that status.
According to the 2010 Census, there were approximately 1.7 million people of Korean descent residing in the United States, making it the country with the second largest Korean population living outside Korea (after the People's Republic of China). The ten states with the largest estimated Korean American populations were California (452,000; 1.2%), New York (141,000, 0.7%), New Jersey (94,000, 1.1%), Virginia (71,000, 0.9%), Texas (68,000, 0.3%), Washington (62,400, 0.9%), Illinois (61,500, 0.5%), Georgia (52,500, 0.5%), Maryland (49,000, 0.8%), and Pennsylvania (41,000, 0.3%). Hawaii was the state with the highest concentration of Korean Americans, at 1.8%, or 23,200 people.
It is fading out of summertime
And I’m trying to find a different peace of mind
When it seems the world doesn’t treat me right
And I am writing you a melody
Cuz our words have seemed so distant recently
I tried to tell you what’s on my mind
But you didn’t seem to have the time
To shed some light
And keep me safe tonight
So carry on then, carry on
Carry on, then, carry on
And in the morning I’ll wake up again
And the new sunlight will lead me to forget
Today, when the world didn’t treat me right
But for now this night has got no end
Cuz I wait for you, I thought you were my friend
And you’d always lend a hand
But now I know exactly where you stand
Don’t waste your time to keep me safe tonight
He’ll come home to me
And he’ll ask me how I’ve been
And I will not say anything to him
As if this were a game I could win
But I’m not disappointed or let down
Cuz it’s time my senses finally came around
To know when the world doesn’t treat you
You can’t expect just one to greet you
And all these distances may never be explained
But I suppose I’ll go on loving all the same
So don’t think of me too much darling as you change
Just carry on then, carry on
Carry on then, carry on, oh carry on.