All posts tagged "Los Angeles"

  • Los Angeles Consul General Kim Hyun-myung, center, speaks to Hispanic community leaders Thursday night.
    LA Korean consulate facilitates Hispanic-Korean cooperation

    The Los Angeles Korean Consulate General held a partnership event with Hispanic community leaders inside the Consul General’s residence Thursday night. About 160 leaders and diplomats from both the Korean American and the Central and South American...

    • Posted December 4, 2015
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  • Volunteers wrap gifts for children at Korean American Family Services in 2014. (Kim Chul-soo/The Korea Times)
    LA Korean community prepares for December charity

    By Kim Chul-soo The Los Angeles Korean American community is beginning a month-long effort to share love and charity for the end of the year through its non-profit organizations. Volunteer group PAVA World will hand out a...

    • Posted December 2, 2015
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  • Los Angeles Dodgers Dave Roberts is officially introduced as the first minority manager in franchise history at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/NIck Ut)
    Dave Roberts officially introduced as Dodgers’ manager

    By Brian Han “This is my dream job,” said Dave Roberts with a wide grin. The Los Angeles Dodgers kicked off its offseason moves by welcoming the club’s first minority manager at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday. The...

    • Posted December 1, 2015
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  • Photo of the Los Angeles Times
    [LA Times] How LAPD vice is cleaning up K-town’s less savory side

    For years, Koreatown had an “anything goes” reputation, a destination only accessible to Korean-speakers who knew the right people or the right number to call. After-hour alcohol sales, smoking indoors and doumi girls? “It’s...

    • Posted December 1, 2015
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  • A Koreatown apartment building located near Western Avenue and 11th Street
    LA K-Town apartments are hot real estate

    By James Goo The eyes of the Los Angeles real estate community are on Koreatown as an increasing number of investment companies take over the neighborhood’s apartment buildings. In the last few months, the area’s real estate...

    • Posted December 1, 2015
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  • The Wilshire and Hobart site (Park Sang-hyuk/Korea Times)
    LA K-Town Wilshire/Hobart lot to begin construction

    Construction on a multi-purpose building to stand on the largest unoccupied site remaining on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, at the intersection of Hobart Boulevard, will begin this week. The 2.22-acre site, which has gone through...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • Yoo Dae-geun, president of the New York Korean American Supermarkets Association, helps hand out free Thanksgiving meals to seniors Wednesday.
    Korean Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with goodwill

    By Tae Hong Korean American communities around the country found Thanksgiving the perfect holiday for goodwill. In New York, a grocers’ association provided free turkey meals to local Korean elderly on Wednesday. Inside senior centers in Flushing...

    • Posted November 27, 2015
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