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As of 2008, 257,975 Korean Americans lived in Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties, making up 25% of all of the Korean Americans. As of that year, over 46,000 Koreans lived in Koreatown, making up 20.1% of the residents there.
Among Korean Americans born in Korea, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had 226,000 as of 2012; Greater New York (including Northern New Jersey) was home to 153,000 Korean-born Korean Americans; and metropolitan Washington, D.C., with 60,000. [6]
Asian Americans makeup 11.7% of Los Angeles’ population. [1]There are more Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Taiwanese, Cambodian, Thai, Indonesian, Sri Lankan, and Burmese Americans living in Los Angeles County than all other counties in the United States of America.
From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population in Los Angeles County increased by 20%. [16] Within Los Angeles County, as of 2010 13 cities and places are majority Asian. As of that year, the City of Los Angeles had the highest numeric Asian population, with slightly fewer than 500,000.
Koreatown (Korean: 코리아타운, Koriataun) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth and Irolo streets. [2]Koreans began immigrating in larger numbers in the 1960s and found housing in the Mid-Wilshire area.
Korean Americans from Los Angeles began moving to suburbs in Orange County after the 1992 riots. ... the Garden Grove City Council voted to rename the-then 20-year-old Korean Business District as ...
Torrance is a coastal community in southwestern Los Angeles County sharing the climate and geographical ... 5,888 ethnic Koreans lived in Torrance, a 256% increase ...
The lobby of the Eaves on South Gramercy Place in Koreatown is shown. The building converted into homeless housing has 58 bedrooms. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)