Hey Soo Kim

KIM Hey Soo

 

Hey Soo KIM

1917 from Jeonju City, Korea

Kim Hey Soo arrived on Angel Island as the bride of a US resident with ambitions to continue her education in America. She was admitted after only one day of detention. In 1919, her husband died from an accident. Hey Soo remarried to Lee Bum Young and joined him in a lifelong fight for Korea’s independence movement.

(Portrait by Tammy Leon, SFSU 2017)