Emigration of Koreans to the U.S. surged in early 1970, and they settled mostly large cities such as New York City. Various local civic associations and religious institutions estimate that over 400,000 Korean immigrants reside in the New York metropolitan area. When they settled, they invited their parents so as to live as one family unit, and their inviting parents resulted a creation of instant senior population. The history of Korean emigration is less than 3-decades old, and yet almost 10% of Korean immigrants are senior citizens. Most of the Korean immigrant seniors are ill prepared to make social, economic, psychological and physical adjustments to newly found home. There is urgent need to provide them services.         In1993, the Korean-American Senior Citizens Counseling Center, Inc., KASCCC, was established as a community based, Not-for-Profit organization. Its creation was facilitated by Mr. Hyungbin Im who throughout his tenure as an officer of a Korean fellowship organization felt urgent needs for a community based organization able to provide human services to recent immigrant Korean seniors in their native language. After consulting with and having obtained support from the Korean community leaders, he began operating KASCCC in Flushing that is the home to the largest Korean-American immigrant senior population in New York City to fulfill the following mission:         The mission of the agency is to enhance the quality of life by identifying issues and problems facing Korean-American immigrant seniors, by facilitating communication between Korean-American senior population, governmental agencies and social service agencies, and by educating them to have tools to become self reliant.         In 1995, Dr. Giho Kim became Executive Director of the agency. He originally came from Korean, educated in the U.S., and had a career in business. His background in two cultures, high-level education and professional career has had significant impact on the agency's program implementation and capacity building.