Korean Americans in Greater Los Angeles

Around this period, the Korean community area moved to Olympic Boulevard, where the modern Koreatown is located.

One Korean American civilian, Edward Song Lee, died in the rioting.

[4] Over $400 million worth of damages occurred, including the destruction of over 2,000 businesses owned by ethnic Koreans[5] even as store owners and community members tried defending them using firearms from building rooftops.

[5][6] In 2014 a delegation of minor Japanese right-wing politicians[7] requested the removal of a memorial statue of the Korean comfort women in World War II from an area in Glendale, California, sparking controversy.

[8] A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit for the statue's removal and was met with support from the Los Angeles City Council, Korea-Glendale Sister City Association, and the Korean American Forum of California as part of a "large-scale effort to raise international awareness of the comfort women's plight.

[14] By 2008 many ethnic Korean communities had appeared in the northwestern San Fernando Valley, including Chatsworth, Granada Hills, Northridge, and Porter Ranch.

This formed the center of the Korean Community of Orange County which later spread out to Buena Park, Fullerton, Cypress, and Irvine.

[17] In 2014 the federal government ran a raid against business operations that it accused of being money laundering.

By 2015 some Korean business owners stated that they may take their operations out of Los Angeles due to a reduction in Latin American customers, an increasing minimum wage, and stricter governmental enforcement of labor laws, all occurring after the 2014 raid.