Welcome to my Koreatown blog. This is to be a record of my trip to Koreatown in Los Angeles. Outisde of Korea, this neighborhood is apparently the largest concentration of Koreans in the world. My trip is being sponsored by the Korean Academy for Educators (KAFE), which is located in Koreatown. For six days and seven nights I will stay in a Korean owned hotel and attend daily seminar classes led by professors and experts on Korean culture and history. At night, I will be turned loose to explore the Korean restaurants and shops in the area, bring on the tea, the kimchee, and the bbq.

I am taking this trip to learn more about Korean culture so that my school can find ways to deal more effectively deal with our Korean students. I will try to post daily so that I can review the things that I have learned and to hopefully make a list of resources that everyone at school can use.

(Please note that I am not in Koreatown yet. I will arrive July 29 and start blogging then. I found the above pictures on the internet, oddly enough from others who have blogged about spending time in Koreatown.)