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Old 05-10-2011, 05:55 PM
waronxmas
 
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As far as Koreatowns go, definitely LA.

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Originally Posted by mrpanda View Post

Atlanta is the new emerging Korea Town! For all you Koreans out there in NYC and LA, YOU MUST SEE to BELIEVE.
It's going to be interesting to see what Atlanta turns into since the Korean community went literally from 0 to 60 in 10 years population-wise, but I don't think it will end up being a LA or NY style "Koreatown". Not due to the layout of the city per se, but more so due to an aversion locally to any ethnic specific "{insert ethnicity here}-towns due to some ****y stuff that happened in the past. Study after study of the recent residents to the area (last 20 years or so) tend to live in integrated more so than a lot of metropolitan areas. Specifically to this thread, you don't very often see specific neighborhoods broken down by race or ethnicity like you would in NY or LA. This isn't a knock on either city, but a reflection on the time in which these cities developed. It is unlikely we will ever see any new "{insert ethnicity here}-towns" in the United States that do not currently exist. This is a good thing given a cosmopolitan city should encourage people living amongst each other instead separately. However, it is not a bad thing at all that any existing Koreatowns or any "{insert ethnicity here}-towns continue to thrive and grow as they played a very vital part to immigrants gaining a foothold in this country at a time in our history when they weren't welcome at all.

With that said, the highest concentration of Koreans Atlanta is from the Northern edge of the City of Atlanta, through northern Dekalb to Duluth in Gwinnett County (about a 16 mile length) and Duluth in particular has been basically taken over by Koreans. It's amazing to see an area that 25 years ago was barely developed with farms and all to now being the center of the Hallyu in Atlanta AND the center of Atlanta's Mexican community. Especially considering that 25 years ago you were unlikely to even see a black person in that part of Gwinnett county let alone a Korean or Mexican. In time, I believe that culture itself will morph and become a larger part of Atlanta as whole rather than a separate. Should be exciting to watch as the years go by.

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