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This essay examines memoirs of the territorial Hawai‘i-born, second-generation Korean American Peter Hyun, such as Man Sei!: the Making of a Korean American (1986), and In the New World: the Making of a Korean American (1995). Looking into the autobiographical representations of Hyun, who has crisscrossed different borderlines of culture and language, problematizes and complicates his assumed identity and position in the United States, showing the cross-national and dynamic dimensions of pre-1965 second-generation Korean diasporic self and also the importance of such narratives to any full understanding of Korean diasporic identity in general.