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[LAT] Community center meant to unite L.A.’s Korean Americans has become a battleground

February 29, 2016

 

With police officers looking on, Sung Hoon Yoon, left, and Sung Woong Kim argue in the offices of the Korean American United Foundation in 2014. Yoon and Kim each claim to be the legitimate leader of the foundation. (Sang H. Park / The Korea Times Los Angeles)

With police officers looking on, Sung Hoon Yoon, left, and Sung Woong Kim argue in the offices of the Korean American United Foundation in 2014. Yoon and Kim each claim to be the legitimate leader of the foundation. (Sang H. Park / The Korea Times Los Angeles)

[LOS ANGELES TIME] — The four-story building at Western and Olympic was meant to pull Korean Americans together as a community.

But in recent years it has become a battleground. Lawsuits fly back and forth, and alternating waves of armed guards and locksmiths sneak in to lop off chains and drill through locks adversaries installed.

When things got really bad just over a year ago, angry men repeatedly squared off in hallway shouting matches.

“It was crazy,” says LAPD Officer Harry Cho. “It was a big to-do.”

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