Pequeño Seúl (Korean: 작은 서울; RR: jageun seoul; lit.

Most immigrated to Mexico in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, as a result of commercial agreements signed by the Mexican government and those of Korea and Taiwan, allowing companies such as Daewoo to bring workers over from Asia.

However, according to some sources, such as Alfredo Romero, professor of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM, a large percentage of Koreans living in Mexico have questionable immigration status.

A store owned by Koreans was shut down by police for selling imported merchandise of questionable origin in 2002, with 33 workers detained.

For two decades it occupied a variety of rented facilities, but in 2010 it was able to acquire its own premises thanks to US$850,000 in donations by companies and other benefactors to the Asociación de Residentes Coreanos en México.