Maria Whang

When they arrived in Hawaii, she told her son Ok Kang about her escape from her affluent husband who had many mistresses.

[2] Whang was a Methodist, and the church assisted her in moving to the United States.

[2] She felt that in Korea she was "not allowed to be anything", and desired the freedom she saw in the United States.

[2] She was an early educator of plantation children,[3] and she established the Korean Women's Association (Taehan Puinhoe) which merged in 1919 with the Korean Ladies Relief Society.

[4] This biographical article about a United States activist is a stub.