page_title: Afro-Asians
section_title: South Korea
hierarchical_section_title: Afro-Asians / East Asia / South Korea
caption_attribution_description: w:Hines Ward of the w:Pittsbrgh Steelers during an NFL game in 2006 against the Chiefs.
context_page_description: Afro-Asians or African-Asians, are persons of mixed Asian and African ancestry. Historically, Afro-Asian populations have been marginalised as a result of human migration and social conflict.
context_section_description: The U.S. deployment of forces to South Korea between 1950 and 1954 resulted in a multitude of Afro-Asian births, mostly between Native South Korean women and African-American servicemen. While many of these births have been to married Black/Korean interracial couples, others have been born out-of-wedlock through prostitution. Already facing the dilemma of 85,000 children left homeless throughout the country after the Korean War, South Korea saw a spike in orphaned Black Korean infants.
  Often, the Afro-Korean orphans were purposely starved, as the society deemed mixed-raced children less worthy of food needed by non-mixed Korean children. In some areas, the mixed-raced youth were even denied education. In 1955, the U.S. State Department made a public plea asking American families to open their doors to the ostracized youth and in 1956 the Holt Adoption Program launched a gateway for Christian faith-based adoption of children of G.I. soldiers that also included Eurasian offspring. However, in addition to the race-based discrimination faced in their country of birth, Afro-Korean orphans were still passed over by adopting American families based on skin color preferences. There is also a general stigma placed on Afro-Koreans based on illegitimacy, low socio-economic status, low educational attainment and aesthetics.
  Notable Koreans of Black African descent:
  Marcus Demps
  Will Demps
  Benson Henderson
  Anderson Paak
  Han Hyun-min
  Insooni
  Kang Soo-il
  Yoon Mi-rae
  Michelle Lee
  Denyce Lawton
  Hines Ward
caption: Former NFL wide receiver Hines Ward is half-African American, half-Korean
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