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This resolution commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation, an organization that has served the Korean immigrant and broader Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the Philadelphia area since 1975. The resolution highlights the foundation's significant contributions, including providing medical and health care services, senior employment training, social services, leadership development, and cultural programs. It also recognizes Dr. Philip Jaisohn's historical importance as the first Korean immigrant to acquire U.S. citizenship in 1890 and a key figure in the Korean Independence Movement, who helped establish the Korean Information Bureau and organized the First Korean Congress in Philadelphia in 1919. The resolution acknowledges the foundation's pandemic response, which included hosting over 130 vaccine clinics and distributing COVID-19 test kits and masks, as well as its formation of the Asian American Coalition for Health and Human Services. By commemorating the foundation's anniversary, the resolution seeks to recognize the ongoing contributions of Korean Americans to various aspects of American life, including politics, industry, entrepreneurship, volunteerism, arts, and education, and to support the goals and ideals of Philip Jaisohn as a pioneering naturalized immigrant and civic participant.

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