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As of the 2011
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, New York City is home to 100,000 ethnic Koreans, with two-thirds living in the
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of
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. On the other hand, the overall Greater New York
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enumerated 218,764
Korean American Korean Americans are Americans of Korean ancestry (mostly from South Korea). In 2015, the Korean-American community constituted about 0.56% of the United States population, or about 1.82 million people, and was the fifth-largest Asian Americans ...
residents as of the
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, the second-largest population of Koreans outside of
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and the most prominent.


History

Mass Korean immigration to the United States began in the 1950s, with a large wave occurring over the 1960s and 1970s. Koreans historically came to the
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with the intention of permanently settling in the city and establishing businesses. Originally, ethnic Koreans settled in highly urbanized neighborhoods in Manhattan and Queens, but beginning in the 1980s, wealthier Koreans began moving to suburban communities in nearby
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—as well as to adjacent Nassau County (on
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) and
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, both locally within
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itself. Many ethnic Koreans moved into areas already settled by the metropolitan Japanese community. By 1988, there were about 150,000 ethnic Koreans living in the New York City area.Kunieda, p. 133.


Geographic distribution

Manhattan's Koreatown is primarily a Korean business district in
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, but since 2008, the district has seen an increase in Korean and
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traffic as well, and the resident Korean population in the area has grown concomitantly. There was never a formal plan or agreement to create a Korean commercial district in
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. However, given the high levels of tourist traffic stemming from its proximity to the
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, the Garment District, and the Flower District, amongst other Midtown Manhattan landmarks, it was an ideal location for
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to settle. Initiated by the opening of a Korean bookstore and a handful of restaurants in the 1980s, Koreatown sprang into being. With their success, an additional stream of Korean-owned businesses took root in the neighborhood, coinciding with increased immigration from
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; and with rising demand for the prime location, overall property values in the area increased as well. According to the 2010 United States Census, the Korean population of Manhattan (co-extensive with
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) had nearly doubled to approximately 20,000 over the decade since the 2000 Census. Although
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continues to represent the heart of Koreatown, situated between Broadway,
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, and
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, Koreatown itself has been expanding further eastward from Fifth Avenue along East 32nd Street, toward
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in Midtown Manhattan, in the direction of
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. Koreatown, Manhattan has become described as the "Korean
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" and has emerged as the international economic outpost for the Korean ''
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''. More broadly, Koreatown is attracting new Korean residents to the adjacent Manhattan neighborhoods of Murray Hill, Kips Bay, and Rose Hill. In the 1980s, a continuous stream of
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also emerged into the
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, many of whom began as workers in the
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or Korean international students who had moved to New York City to find or initiate professional or
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positions. They established a foothold on Union Street in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, between 35th and 41st Avenues, featuring restaurants and
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(''
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'') bars, grocery markets, education centers and bookstores, banking institutions, offices,
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vendors,
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s, and other commercial enterprises. In 1990, Korean-American owned shops were boycotted in the Flatbush section of
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; the boycott started by Black Nationalist,
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, lasted for six months and became known as the Flatbush boycott. As the community grew in wealth and population and rose in
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, Koreans expanded their presence eastward along Northern Boulevard, buying homes in more affluent and less crowded Queens neighborhoods and more recently into adjacent suburban Nassau County, bringing their businesses with them, and thereby expanding the Koreatown itself. This expansion has led to the creation of an American ''Meokjagolmok'', or Korean ''Restaurant Street'', around the
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station in Murray Hill, Queens, exuding the ambience of
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itself. The eastward pressure to expand was also created by the inability to move westward, inhibited by the formidable presence of the enormous
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centered on Main Street. Per the 2010 United States Census, the Korean population of Queens was 64,107, while the Korean population of Nassau County had increased by nearly two-thirds to approximately 14,000 over one decade since the 2000 Census. Korean Air and Asiana Airlines provide non-stop flights from
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to JFK Airport in Queens, and the Consulate-General of South Korea in Manhattan has played an important role in mediating travel to and from Korea by the Korean diaspora living in the New York metropolitan area. Other established and growing Koreatowns in the New York metropolitan area are located in nearby
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is ubiquitous in all of the Koreatowns.


Education

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schools in the New York City region tend to have distinct educational missions and clienteles, and each school has its own distinct management. Because ethnic Koreans settling in New York City generally intend to permanently immigrate to the United States, the only Korean-oriented schools are supplementary institutions holding classes on Saturdays and Sundays.Kunieda, p. 137. Korean churches typically hold Korean language classes for a half to one hour per week during Sundays. In addition to the churches, there are non-religious operators of Korean schools. In 1988, the Consulate-General of South Korea in New York stated that about 40% of the Korean schools in the New York City area were non-religious. The first Korean schools were established by ethnic Korean churches.Kunieda, p. 136-137.


Individual Korean schools

The Korean School of New York was the first secular Korean school established in the city, opening in 1973. The founder, who remained as the school's principal
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in 1988, believed that Korean language education should be separate from religion. As of 1988, this school had 205 students.Kunieda, p. 147. The Korean School of Queens originated as a church-operated school, and as of 1988, offered classes for elderly persons and children. In that year, the school had 141 enrolled students. As of 1988, the Korean School of New Jersey (뉴저지 한국학교) had 262 students, making it the largest Korean school in the New York City area, serving students living in suburbs in northern New Jersey. In 1988, the Church of
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Korean Language School had 120 students, the Broadway Korean School of New York had 97 students, the
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Korean School had 50 students, and the Pearl River Korean School had 36 students. In 2014, the McGoldrick Branch of the Queens Library in Flushing began holding Korean language classes.


Korean culture


Korean cuisine


Development of Koreatown, Manhattan as a Korean dining destination

Approximately fifteen restaurants conduct business
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on
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in Koreatown, Manhattan. Korean restaurants in the district have had to expand or stay open around the clock to meet rising commercial rents and stay financially viable, given the growing prestige and high customer volume generated by foot traffic in Koreatown, Manhattan, and greater investment and involvement by the Korean
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. Historically known as a more tourist-oriented alternative to the residential and somewhat suburban Flushing and Murray Hill, Queens in the nearby
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, Koreatown in Manhattan has since developed a reputation as an authentic Korean dining destination.


Recognition by chefs and authenticity of Korean cuisine in Queens

According to ''The New York Times'', a " Kimchi Belt" stretches along Northern Boulevard and the
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tracks, from Flushing, Queens, eastward into Nassau County, in the
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. A prominent Korean food chef stated that "Queens is the closest you can come to authentic Korean food." The Long Island Koreatown features numerous restaurants that serve both traditional and/or regional Korean cuisine. The development of this Koreatown has led to the creation of an American ''Meokjagolmok'', or Korean ''Restaurant Street'', around the Long Island Rail Road station in Murray Hill, Queens, exuding the ambience of
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itself. Korean Chinese cuisine is also available in the Long Island Koreatown.


K-Pop

The
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industry is active in New York City, hosting numerous concerts in the city as well as being home to K-Pop musicians. The musical ''
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'' opened
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in 2017 and moved to Broadway in 2022, with Luna in the starring role, and co-starring fellow K-pop stars Kevin Woo, Min-Young Lee, and Kim Bo-hyung (김보형).


Notable people

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– fashion designer *
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– international restaurateur * Ronnie Cho – political consultant * Margaret Cho – multi-hyphenate entertainer and
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social activist *
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– former mayor of Edison, New Jersey * Kyung Hee Choi – Vice President, Asian Health Services and ''Korean Medical Program (한국인의 의료 프로그램)'',
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– novelist * Alton Chun – executive manager, five-star luxury Hotel Park Hyatt New York in
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* Christopher Chung – the first elected mayor of Bergen County's Palisades Park, where Koreans constitute the majority of the population *
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investor in
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* Gina Kim – borough clerk, Palisades Park, Bergen County, New Jersey * Jean Kim – political lobbyist *
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– acting
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, 2017–2018 * Judy Kim – Manhattan state Supreme Court judge * Kyung Kim – chief operating officer, KFF Inc., parent company of Dons Bogam
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* Andrew Kwon – fashion designer * Joo-Yung Lee – managing director, North American financial institutions, Fitch Ratings *
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– fashion designer * Luna – singer-songwriter and Broadway actress *
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– singer-songwriter and Broadway actress *
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– Broadway actress, dancer, and singer * Ellen Park – member of the New Jersey State Assembly, representing Bergen County's 37th District, elected in November 2021 * Helen Park – composer and songwriter * Jae Shin – actor *
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See also

* Koreatown, Fort Lee (포트 리 코리아타운) * Koreatown, Palisades Park (팰리세이즈 파크 코리아타운) *
Asian Americans in New York City Asian Americans in New York City represent the largest Asian American population of any city in the United States. Population New York City alone, according to the 2010 Census, has now become home to more than one million Asian Americans, gre ...
* Bangladeshis in New York City *
Chinese people in New York City The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China. The Chinese American population ...
*
Demographics of New York City New York City is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis. It is the largest city in the United States with a long history of international immigration. New York City was home to over 8.3 million people in 2019, accounting for over 40% of the ...
*
Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area constitute one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the United States, and one of the largest and most prominent Filipino diasporas in the Western Hemisphere. By 2014 Census estimates, the New York C ...
* Fuzhounese in New York City * Indians in the New York City metropolitan region *
Japanese in New York City As of the 2000 United States Census, 2000 Census, over half of the 37,279 people of Japanese people, Japanese ancestry in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York lived in New York City.Robinson, Greg. "Japanese." In: Eisenstadt, Peter R. an ...
* Russians in New York City * Taiwanese people in New York City


Notes

* Kunieda, Mari (國枝 マリ; School of International Cultural Relations).
Assimilation to American Life vs.Maintenance of Mother Culture : Japanese and Korean Children in New York

Archive
Japanese title: 異文化接触と母国文化 : 在ニューヨーク日本人・韓国人子女の場合). ''Hokkaido Tokai University Bulletin'' (北海道東海大学紀要): Humanities and social sciences (人文社会科学系) 1, 131–147, 1988.
Hokkaido Tokai University was a university with two campuses in Hokkaido, Japan: the Sapporo campus in Minami-ku, which housed the School of Engineering and the School of International Cultural Relations; and the Asahikawa is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkai ...

See profile at
CiNii. ''Abstract in Japanese available''. * Min, Pyong Gap and Young I. Song. "Demographic Characteristics and Trends of Post-1965 Korean Immigrant Women and Men" (Chapter 5). In: Song, Young In and Ailee Moon (editors). ''Korean American Women: From Tradition to Modern Feminism''.
Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio. Established in 1967 as Gr ...
, January 1, 1998. Start page 45. , 9780275959777.


References


Further reading

* Kim, Claire Jean. ''Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City''.
Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Universi ...
, February 1, 2003. , 9780300093308. * Kim, Jongyun. ''Adjustment Problems Among Korean Elderly Immigrants in New York and Los Angeles and Effects of Resources on Psychological Distress and Status in the Family'' (dissertation).
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, 2008. , 9780549566052. UMI Number 3307607. * Min, Pyong Gap. ''Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City''.
Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation is an American non-profit organisation established by Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It was named after her recently deceased husband, rail ...
, April 3, 2008. , 9781610443982.


External links

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The Korean School of New Jersey
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