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Like other Asian-Americans, most Korean-Americans reside on the West Coast of the United States (44% of Korean-Americans live there, compared to 22% of the general population). However, Korean-Americans are more widely distributed than other Asian-Americans.
Despite the fact that most Korean businesses are in urban city centers, about 57% of Korean-Americans live in the suburbs. This is one of the highest rates among major ethnic groups (Yu, 2003). More than a quarter million Korean-Americans live in the area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange-San Bernardino-Ventura, California, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area. Next is the community encompassing New York City and the surrounding metropolitan areas of New York, northern New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
Korean-Americans tend to live in multiple scattered neighborhoods of a metropolian area rather than in single neighborhood. For instance, in Los Angeles, Koreans constitute...
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Park, K. (2005). Koreans in the United States. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_101
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