This site (A28) is in Koreatown Los Angeles and was chosen as representing an urban, Asian (Korean)-concentrated block. Located to the west of downtown Los Angeles in Southern California, Koreatown is a symbolic location for Koreans in Southern California, the state with the largest Korean population in the United States. One third of the business property and one fifth of residential property in Koreatown is owned by Koreans. Many recent Korean immigrants use this part of Los Angeles as their gateway to the United States. Family and friendship ties and ethnic resources for employment, social services, and social activities attract many recently arrived Korean immigrants. Once established they move out to the suburbs or to other areas in the United States. Compared to the predominance of Korean businesses in Koreatown the percentage of Korean residents in Koreatown is not high. Originally populated by Blacks and Hispanics, only about 10 percent of Koreatown’s population is Korean. In other words, though Koreatown, LA has a higher concentration of Koreans than other Korean communities in the U.S., the degree of concentration is not high in comparison with some other ethnic communities. This is because new Korean immigrants have been here a short time (many of them only since 1965) and have had to move into areas where-other ethnic groups had already established a community (Yu 1988).