Picture of the Day: America’s First Koreatown To Become A Historic Site
Hong Myong-ki, head of an organization honoring Korean freedom fighter Ahn Chang-ho, talks about “Pachapa Camp,” the first Koreatown in the United States, at a meeting of the cultural committee of Riverside City, California, on June 15, 2016. The panel later agreed on the designation of the camp as a historic site. Ahn, who came to America in 1902, set up the camp in the city in 1904, when many Koreans worked at orange farms in the region. Hong said the camp was virtually a base for a movement for Korea’s liberation from the Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). The City Council will make a final decision on the designation on Aug. 28. (Yonhap)
Ahn Chang Ho is probably not well known to the average American – however, his eldest son Philip Ahn (Ahn Pil-lip in Korean), did fairly well in Hollywood and is best remembered for his role as Master Kan in the 1970s tv series Kung Fu which starred David Carradine.
Not to diminish the man or the work I’m just not a fan of historical sites, committees, etc… between “historical” land, cemeteries, and “public” land, what’s left for the people alive and here now? š