 Members volunteer their time to help promote and advance the Korean-American presence in American society.The young Korean American Network started in 1989 and was officially inaugurated on August 30, 1990 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan organization.Their first president, Michael Han, was a founding member who sought to create the organization as a response to the lack of a networking hub for the Korean-American community in New York.