Our Mission

Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation is a non-profit organization established to support the Korean community and raise the status of Koreans with the support of the late Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation, the former president of the American Honam Friendship Association and his wife, Kyung Sik Kim.

During their lifetime, the late Chairman Jin Duck and Kyung Sik Kim respected all people, gave generous love and grace to the marginalized neighbors, and continued various and continuous support activities so that the Korean community could stand up with pride as Koreans.

In order to carry on their will, the eldest son Jonathan H. Kim (President), the eldest daughter Kim Soon-ok, the second daughter Kim Soon Ran (Foundation Chairperson), the second son Kim Jeong kwon, and the third daughter Kim Soon Seong, launched ‘Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation’ in 2012.

As part of an effort to continue the pride of Korean Americans, the foundation has continued to sponsor various events in the Korean American community. Korean American Festival, San Francisco Korean American Day celebration, World Cup soccer cheer for solidarity, San Francisco Democratic Peace Advisory Committee event, San Francisco Korean Center, Silicon Valley Korean School, Northern California Media Association, Silicon Valley Korean Association events, as well as various Korean community events. A lot of interest and support are also paid to the events of non-profit organizations.

In addition, we are making active and continuous efforts to promote Dokdo as Korean territory. Since 2013, advertisements have been posted on large billboards in the San Francisco area informing that Dokdo is Korean territory, and in 2013, the White House petition signing campaign (We the People) was successfully launched with the local Silicon Valley Korean Association on Dokdo issues. . CEO Jonathan H. Kim was the first to discover that Dokdo was listed on Google's map and changed its name to Liancourt Reef, and is actively working to correct it.

Since 2015, we have been working hard on the 'comfort women' program. The “comfort women” Kirimbi has come to a situation where the Japanese government's historical distortions are becoming more and more dangerous and we have to tell the truth of history. It is a regrettable reality that the elderly victims of the Japanese military 'comfort women' have not received sincere apologies from the Japanese government.

Fortunately, on September 22, 2017, thanks to the massive participation of Koreans in Northern California, the 'Comfort Women' memorial was finally erected on St. Mary Square in the center of San Francisco for the first time in a large city in the United States. Also, on August 14, 2019, the 'Comfort Women' Memorial in Seoul was unveiled in Namsan, the center of Seoul, which continues the spirit of 'Comfort Women' in San Francisco.

In the name of the Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation, established in the name of the Jin Duck Kim and Kyung Sik Kim Foundation, who were specially honored for their love for the motherland and the support of the Korean community, the donation of the commemorative monument for the Seoul 'Comfort Women', a symbol of peace and human rights protection, to the Seoul Metropolitan Government supported the teaching and maintenance of parents. It was a continuation.

Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation will continue to spur spreading the truth of the painful history, and will actively inform that human rights violations will not occur again.

Meanwhile, as a scholarship project for future leaders in the Korean American community, we have selected scholarship students and awarded them scholarships together with the San Francisco Advisory Council for Democracy for the past two years. The scholarship project is a major event of the foundation and will continue to provide generous support.

Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation will continue to work to raise the status of the Korean American community with pride as a Korean, and to continue meaningful sponsorship projects that provide love and consideration to the Korean American community.

- Jin Duck & Kyung Sik Kim Foundation President Jonathan H. Kim,
Chairman Soon Ran Kim