 While it is unclear what prompted their arrival they may have been the children of Australian Protestant missionaries who began work in Korea around 1885.A few also came to Australia between 1921 and 1941 for education.During World War II (1941-1945), an unknown number of Koreans who had been arrested in Allied countries across the Asia-Pacific Region were transported to Australia and interned alongside Japanese and Formosans for the duration of the war.