2027 Priorities

Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles holds important traces of the early Korean diaspora. The lives commemorated there connect immigration and settlement in the United States with community organizing, education, and support for Korean independence. They also include individuals associated with the Korean aviation school established at Willows, California, in 1920.

Our 2027 priority is to research and document Korean American graves and their associated histories, connecting burial places with archival records and individual stories. By placing these lives within the broader history of the Korean diaspora, we aim to build a foundation for preservation, remembrance, and education.

Japanese and Chinese gardens demonstrate how landscape traditions can become lasting settings for cultural learning, reflection, and exchange. This initiative seeks to create further opportunities for Korean communities and the wider public to experience Korean garden traditions and their relationship with nature, architecture, and everyday life.

As a long-term undertaking, we will explore partnerships and opportunities to support spaces inspired by Korean garden principles. Our vision is to create welcoming places where people can gather, encounter Korean culture, and develop connections across generations and communities. Specific sites, settings, and implementation plans have yet to be determined.

Heritage Map is an ongoing effort to document and connect Korean historic places across the diaspora. By bringing together locations, historical accounts, archival materials, and stories of individuals and communities, it seeks to make dispersed heritage easier to discover and understand.

Our goal for 2027 is to complete the initial Americas database. We will continue to update and refine these records as new information becomes available, then expand coverage to other countries and continents. Over the long term, we envision Heritage Map as a growing public resource supporting research, education, preservation, and connections among Korean diaspora communities worldwide.