CHAPTER 7 Korean Immigrant Media and Identity: Minority Media, Its Contributions and Constraints Gil-Soo Han INTRODUCTION According to the 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census, there were 88,984 individuals in Australia claiming full- or part-Korean ancestry. In comparison with the population growth of other minority groups, this is a modest increase from 60,873 in 2006 and 10,264 in 1986. The economic prosperity of South Korea since the 1990s has led to a large influx of Korean students, tourists and other short-term stayers in Australia. For example, in 2006, following China (150,116) and India (49,265), Korea supplied the third largest number of students to Australia (27,580) study- ing at schools, higher education institutes and English-language schools (Australian Government 2013). 1 In addition to these influxes of Korean students, the actual Korean populations of major Australian cities are far greater than the figures provided by the ABS Census at any point in time. It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 Koreans in metropolitan Sydney and about 20,000–25,000 in greater Melbourne. By far, the church remains one of the most significant Korean ethnic institutions in terms of maintaining Korean ethnicity and interaction G.-S. Han (*) Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia e-mail: gil-soo.han@monash.edu © The Author(s) 2017 J. Budarick, G.-S. Han (eds.), Minorities and Media, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59631-4_7 125