I went to Koreatown for this week’s blog post with my
friend. Koreatown is in the mid-wilshire area of Los Angeles. It has one of the
highest population densities of all neighborhoods in LA. Koreatown is known for
its concentration of Korean American people. According to the site
simplymaps.com, we can see that the Asian population in 2012. In the map,
50%-90% of Asian communities are live in the East Los Angeles area, which
consists of koreatown, Alhambra, montrery park, etc.
Koreatown always has delicious Korean food so I was really
excited about the restaurant that she was going to bring me to. We went to a
restaurant called “chunju han-il kwan”. When my friend and I got into the
restaurant; I instantly realized that everyone in here is Korean. Everyone is
speaking in Korean. When the waitress gave us the menu, I had no idea which
food should I order because the whole menu is written in Korean! Even I tried
to ask the waitress, she seemed like she doesn’t understand what I was talking
about. She spoke English barely so my friend and me ended up choosing the dish
that most people ordered. The food was amazing!!! The food just made my day and
I think that’s the reason why this place is always so crowded and its all
Korean.
When I did the research in simplymaps.com, it is very
surprised that below 20% of people who live in koreatown speak English. And the
restaurant I went indeed demonstrates what the statistic shoes in this map. I
took a walk around this area and found out that all the stores names are
written in Korean and the majority populations in this area are Korean and
Latino.
Furthermore, speaking of koreatown, I have always heard that
this area has the most crime rates compare to other Los Angeles area. While I
was walking along the streets, I can see a lot of homeless people walking and
the streets were not clean. There are trashes on the streets and a lot of
obsoleted buildings. What surprising me the most is that when I looked up the
murder index in simplymaps.com, koreatown has the highest murder index. I think
koreatown can also called as “the ghetto” because the ghetto area always has
higher crime rate compare to other areas that is not ghetto. Furthermore, I
have a friend who lives in koreatown told me that she seldom goes out at night time
even she has a car, also the rent of her apartment is relatively lower.
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