The Young Oak Kim Center for Korean Amercian Studies at UC Riverside

Welcome to the nonpropfit Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California Riverside.

Colonel Young Oak Kim was a highly decorated U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was the only Korean American officer in a mostly Japanese American unit in the Army at the time of World War II. The Center is named after the late Col. Young Oak Kim and was founded in June 2010.