The list includes those who have emigrated from South Korea as well as Korean Americans of multiple generations.

[5] 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.

Bergen County, host to the county's highly ranked Academies magnet public high school[8][9][10] as well as to the North American headquarters operations of South Korean chaebols including Samsung,[11] LG Corp,[12] and Hanjin Shipping,[13] was home to all of the nation's top 10 municipalities by percentage of Korean population.

[14] These top 10 municipalities in the growing Korean hub of Bergen County, New Jersey, across the George Washington Bridge from New York City, were led by Palisades Park,[15] the municipality with the highest density of ethnic Koreans in the Western Hemisphere.

Main articles: Koreatown, Palisades Park (팰리세이즈파크 코리아타운) and Koreatown, Fort Lee (포트리 코리아타운) (Note that Manhattan and Queens are official boroughs of New York City.)