Myungin Dumpling Restaurant For Sale?
It appears so, according to a Konglish retail sale listing drafted by a non-native speaker of English.
Los Angeles
Suicide Attempt Wilshire-Vermont Red Line Subway Station Tuesday Night
Did someone die at Wilshire Vermont Tuesday night?
Man Tasered to Death by Police in North Koreatown?
City News Service filed the news story this morning about a man who died after being tasered by law-enforcement officers on Vermont Avenue, by Oakwood Avenue, just north of the formal borders of Koreatown. According to the “official” version of what happened, cops went to the 400 block of North Vermont at around 11:20 pm […]
Wilshire/Western/Alfred Hoyun Song Station
The Metro Purple Line Wilshire/Western Station will now be known as the “Wilshire/Western/Alfred Hoyun Song Station” (윌셔·웨스턴/알프레드 호윤 송 스테이션) in honor of Alfred Hoyun Song. Born in Hawaii in 1919 on a sugar-cane plantation, Song was the son of plantation workers who had emigrated from Korea. In 1940 he moved to Los Angeles and […]
Chipotle @ Wilshire & Vermont in Koreatown LA
Chipotle Mexican Grill is taking over the former retail space of Nine West shoe store at the above-ground plaza of the Wilshire/Vermont Metro station… with 365 square feet of outdoor dining space. The plan had been in the works since before May 2012. An application for a beer & wine license is currently pending. Was […]
Calbi BBQ Truck Founder Arrested
The gist of the news from South Korea… Fourteen years ago, Ok-Ju An left South Korea the very day after three investors entrusted him with 1.3 billion won (the equivalent of more than a million U.S. dollars). He went straight to Japan, then entered the United States, ostensibly to visit his children who were studying […]
2012 Koreatown Parade in Los Angeles
Annual event that’s the highlight of the Los Angeles Korean Festival… The four-day JangTeo is at Seoul International Park, while the Parade itself will be on Olympic Boulevard, between Vermont Avenue and Western Avenue. Opening Ceremony is on October 4th (Thursday), 6:50-8:10 PM, though there will be related activities as early as the night before […]
Los Angeles City Council 13th District Candidates 2013
Candidates in the race to replace Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti in the 13th District, which includes all or part of Echo Park, Silver Lake, Hollywood, Koreatown and Historic Filipinotown: Emile Mack, former deputy fire chief Sam Kbushyan, member of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Thomas Marshall Penick, weriter businessman Scott Crawford, actor Reuben […]
Koreatown Police Station Closed Due to Luggage
A piece of luggage was left unattended by the side of the Olympic Division police station late this afternoon (at around 4:30 pm) and was deemed suspicious enough to warrant the closure of Vermont Avenue between Olympic Boulevard and 12th Street. The LAPD’s “bomb squad” was called in to examine the suitcase as a precautionary […]
Koreatown Fire: Olympic & Berendo
A fire occurred late this afternoon near the intersection of Olympic and Vermont. LAFD initially reported the fire as being at 1017 S. Serrano, but a Twitter user on the scene said that it was actually 1017 S. Berendo, two blocks west of Vermont. It took 97 firefighters 38 minutes to put out the fire. […]
Koreatown shooting: 3rd Street between Catalina and Alexandria Closed
July 14, 2012 LAFD paramedics were asked to respond to a reported shooting on the 3700 block of 3rd Street at 7:46 pm. Because of the freshness of this news, the following are UNCONFIRMED details culled from local eyewitnesses. A group of gang-affiliated young men were reportedly “hanging out” in front of a building on […]
Where is Koreatown in LA?
The city council of Los Angeles has set the official boundary for Koreatown LA as Olympic Boulevard from Western Avenue to Vermont Avenue on the south, Vermont Avenue from Olympic Boulevard to Third Street on the east, Third Street from Vermont Avenue to Western Avenue on the north, Western Avenue from Third Street to Olympic Boulevard, […]