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Adjustment Problems Among Korean Elderly Immigrants in New York and Los Angeles and Effects of Resources on Psychological Distress and Status in the Family (dissertation). ProQuest, 2008. ISBN 0549566058, 9780549566052. UMI Number 3307607. Kim, Katherine Yungmee. Los Angeles's Koreatown. Arcadia Publishing, 2011. ISBN 0738575526, 9780738575520.
Wan Joon Kim began selling records of the genre at his stall, Cycadelic Records, in the 1980s. He became known as the "godfather of gangsta rap". Kim, a North Korean defector who had immigrated to Los Angeles in 1976, began selling at swap meets to make money. After a group of Korean swap meet vendors founded the Compton Swap Meet in 1985, Kim ...
The Los Angeles Times stated there were multiple people on the roof of the grocery with "shotguns and automatic weapons". [2] [4] Ebony magazine noted the use of "rifles and handguns." [9] Because South Korea had at the time a thirty-month mandatory military service for males, it was noted that many Korean immigrants had experience with ...
1980: Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles was founded on April 11, 1980. 1992: The area around was burned in the Rodney King riots, while the center was protected by armed guards. 2001: Reopening of remodeled KCCLA Library on May 24, 2001.
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; History of Korean Americans in Greater Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Times analyzed 40 years of data from the census, charting the growth of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across Los Angeles County. ... nearly a million Asians and ...
A reader asked why L.A.'s recognizable skyline — with skyscrapers such as the Wilshire Grand Center and U.S. Bank tower — developed roughly 15 miles from the Pacific. We have answers.
Tensions between African American and Korean American communities in major U.S. cities gained national attention in the 1980s and 1990s, marked by events such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the Family Red Apple boycott in New York. In response, organizations such as the Black–Korean Alliance emerged to alleviate tension and improve ...