Were Korean-Americans also sent to concentration camps like Japanese-Americans in the US during WWII?

by Arumdaum

I've heard that since Korea was an annexed territory of Japan, Koreans were also considered to be Japanese and that Korean-Americans were thus also sent to concentration camps. If so, I wouldn't be surprised. However, I've also heard that this isn't the case.

ivymikey

First, the term is internment camp, not concentration camp. Don't get me wrong, they were not the most pleasant places to be, but they were not Auschwitz. The worst part about American policies towards Japanese Americans was the abuse of civil rights and the outright theft of property, but internment camps were like a Motel 6 compared to German concentration camps.

As to your question, see this thread discussing the same issue. In it, /u/HippopotamicLandMass cites a lot of good information and an older thread from /u/cordis_melum on the subject.

The quick answer is no. The Chinese and Korean communities made efforts to show their loyalty to the US and to show their ethnic differences from the Japanese.