[1] After the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, multiple local and statewide Korean organizations emerged in Hawaii, California, and other parts of the US condemning Japan's colonial policies.

It would serve as a central administrative office to ensure uniformity of rules across all chapters and to direct Korean independence movement activities.

Initially, the Japanese consulate interceded with the government on behalf of the Korean Immigrants but that caused outrage within the Korean-American community.

David Lee, the president of the North American branch of the KNA, sent a telegram to the US Secretary of state William Jennings Bryan, requesting that the Japanese government no longer represent Koreans.

The KNA first attempted to send a three-man delegation including Syngman Rhee to the Paris Peace Conference but failed to receive necessary travel documentation.

Ahn Changho, who was in Shanghai at that time, played an instrumental role in the government's establishment on April 13 and its early operations.

[6] Despite internal conflicts, the spike in activity within the KNA continued on until the mid-1920s when it lost its steam in the liberation movement and would not regain it until the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

[7] However, the KNA continued to launch independence funds which for the following decades collected money from Korean immigrants to financially support the provisional government and anti-Japanese activities.

In recognition of its part in shaping Korean American history, in 1991, the city of Los Angeles declared the building as a historical landmark.