Two candidates running for Congress in California are entering what one calls a “final frontier” for Korean-Americans.

The only Korean-American elected to Congress was Jay Kim, a California Republican who served three terms from 1993 to 1999.

On April 4, Robert Lee Ahn, a former Los Angeles city planning commissioner and a first-generation Korean-American whose father serves as president of L.A.’s Korean American Federation, qualified for the all-Democratic runoff in the special election in California’s 34th District to replace former Rep. Xavier Becerra.

And in California’s 45th District, Dave Min, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and another first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Korea in the 1970s, is running as a Democrat to challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Mimi Walters.

Ahn said in an interview that Korean-Americans have already seen success in other areas of American life such as business, medicine and law.